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Disaster Accountability Project

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 11, 2025

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

Accountability

Accountability Advocacy Laws Legislation

Long-term Disaster Resilience

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 18, 2025

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

Advocacy

Advocacy Laws Accountability Legislation

U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

These EDDs facilitate Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) and coordinate regional efforts to promote prosperity through job creation and private investment. The legislation authorizes funding for EDA programs through fiscal year 2029 contingent on the availability of Congressional appropriations.

Economic Development

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation.

Stewardship

Stewardship Legislation Advocacy Parks And Recreation

Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons.

Regulations

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Closing the cyber security skills gap: Are we looking for unicorns?

Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As a result, we have a stalemate: job roles that require specific experience on tools and applications that are not often available within a learning environment or low salaries that organisations believe will account for the additional training, coaching and mentoring required until an individual is actively competent within their role.

Security

Security Development Education Legislation

Montana Maps Infrastructure Spending to Ensure Equity

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. We’re a very dispersed state,” Coleman said.

Legislation

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Five Principles for a New 421-a Property Tax Exemption

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, 68 percent of new multifamily buildings used various forms of a 421-a exemption , accounting for 116,000 of the 171,000 housing units completed in multifamily buildings that decade. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

Housing

Housing Coordinator Development Security

The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 7 See Hahn, “DOJ, FTC & NAR: A Hundred Year War,” [link].

Advocacy

Advocacy Housing Regulations Legislation

Social Media Gives an Oklahoma Agency Its Voice

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.”

Social Media

Social Media Communications Accountability Constituents

Social Media Gives an Oklahoma Agency Its Voice

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.”

Social Media

Social Media Communications Accountability Constituents

How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

A coherent data strategy entails long-term vision and pragmatic details – integrating technology, processes, personnel and governance to enable data accessibility, coordinated analysis, and informed decision-making. AWS will review DTO fee waiver requests at the account level. What’s next?

Government

Government Public Sector Security Budgeting

Why cyber resilience should be a priority for the UK government

Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Adopt Comprehensive Cyber Legislation The UK can take valuable lessons from the EU’s NIS2 Directive, a comprehensive framework designed to secure national infrastructure by setting mandatory security standards for organisations. A collaborative approach will ensure that the UK is better equipped to anticipate and mitigate cyber risks.

Government

Government Campaign Security Legislation

How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

I have also written on the inherent design flaw in F&F and the other GSEs embedded in their congressional legislation: see [link] and [link]. ]] For many years, this was considered the responsibility of Congress, which had established the GSEs by legislation – but Congress has never come close to agreeing on what changes would be needed.

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

Closing the cyber security skills gap: Are we looking for unicorns?

Montana Maps Infrastructure Spending to Ensure Equity

Five Principles for a New 421-a Property Tax Exemption

The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

Social Media Gives an Oklahoma Agency Its Voice

Social Media Gives an Oklahoma Agency Its Voice

How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

Why cyber resilience should be a priority for the UK government

How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

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