AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

The legislation authorizes funding for EDA programs through fiscal year 2029 contingent on the availability of Congressional appropriations. Allows for consideration of the extent to which projects awarded Public Works grants mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events, support outdoor recreation, and promote blue economy activities.

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GovLoop

JULY 11, 2023

Legislators want to see ARPA funds spread evenly across Montana. As much as it promotes transparency by showing the public the geographic distribution of grants, it also allows Coleman and her team to test various funding scenarios, which supports internal accountability. This article first appeared April 5, 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

From the article: The community interest company Planet Patrol created an app for people to record the litter they find and remove. Plastic was the most common material recorded, accounting for 63.1% We used it to map the location, materials, type and, where possible, brands of 43,187 items of litter collected across the UK in 2020.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , commonly known as HIPAA, protects health care and health insurance personal data. Congress has considered, but not enacted, broader privacy legislation. This article appears in our guide, “ Decision Intelligence: New Possibilities for Data-Based Decision-Making.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

Article I, Chapter 5 of the Zoning Resolution provides another path for easier conversions of older buildings in certain parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. New state legislation could also facilitate conversions. However, this process can be slow, costly, and uncertain.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

This article analyzes the arguments for and against the pilot, addressing in some detail specific points related to credit risk, mission alignment, and the adequacy of the private market. The pilot program aimed to provide an alternative to cash-out refi for homeowners to extract equity from their homes.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Accountability and transparency standards must be strengthened as well as lending practices monitored as opposed to the borrow now and cross your fingers later approach to lending. If we start down this road, multiple municipalities, creditors, etc.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The title of this short blog comes from an article from Foreign Affairs. It comes from Stewart Brand’s introduction to the first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog , “an encyclopedic compendium of resources for back-to-the-land living that became a foundational document of Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian culture.”

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Post-Helene, there is not a moratorium on summary ejectment proceedings, although activists and at least two legislators have called upon the legislature, the chief justice, and the governor for such action. Homelessness and displacement may impede the delivery of the accounting to the tenant and the return of the balance.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

As described in Part 1 of this three-part series, MH – a term which in this paper refers to the factory-produced structure that is later sited on a residential lot – accounts for approximately six percent of owner- and renter-occupied housing in the U.S., with a much greater market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 11, 2025

Accountability mechanisms must be in place to ensure that the right stuff is being done with the money and that it gets results. Below is the diagram from the article showing the dimensions of corruption within construction. An RFP and open call process with deadlines and decision making criteria. No wonder corruption is so endemic.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

For example, when states distribute finances to counties based on their total populations, it might be wise for them to take the individual counties’ median ages into account. These age ranges are of consequence for a number of reasons.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated. This claim is simply untrue.

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GovLoop

MAY 15, 2023

Social media helps build communities, of course, and about 10 years ago, an agency employee created a department Twitter account. The agency joined Facebook three years later, but both accounts were relatively ineffective. She created an agency TikTok account, which reaches a younger demographic and has generated 3 million “likes.”

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Social media helps build communities, of course, and about 10 years ago, an agency employee created a department Twitter account. The agency joined Facebook three years later, but both accounts were relatively ineffective. She created an agency TikTok account, which reaches a younger demographic and has generated 3 million “likes.”

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 21, 2022

For example, when states distribute finances to counties based on their total populations, it might be wise for them to take the individual counties’ median ages into account. These age ranges are of consequence for a number of reasons.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

The Washington Post recently published a long article on Social Security Disability Insurance benefits in small rural communities. The Post article focused on a former roofer who was suffering chronic pain because he’d fallen to the ground. It set off a well-deserved backlash. Hence this post. Aspersions on SSDI and Beneficiaries.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. See my article “The Policymaking Implications of Record-High Mortgage Origination Profits During the Pandemic. Also, the 0.10

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Accordingly, local government programs should account for federal rules prohibiting “duplication of benefits” (or DOB) from other sources. 4] North Carolina Legislation 1975 , ed. This amount is so substantial that local governments need to make every penny count. 2 CFR 200.101 (Uniform Guidance “Applicability”). [2]

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