Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants. They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members.

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GovLoop

JULY 19, 2023

Good measurements also help you communicate with constituents and elected officials about what you’re accomplishing and how you’re responding to their concerns. Then, employees and managers can evaluate how well those priorities support the mission. The right measurements can guide future efforts and inspire your team.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

Priority-Based Budgeting was declared a Best Practice by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), urging every local government in the world to approach resource allocation decisions in the context of what matters most to it’s community. Demand Accountability for Results.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Having lived through that period of disorder, I am always amazed that elected officials in cities like SF, Seattle, Portland, and DC are happy with encouraging it. I first moved to DC in grim times, the late 1980s and 1990s, when crime burgeoned. I don't think that's what they intended.

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Elected Officials Development Implementation 52

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. How will those processes be managed? What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland. These days there are way too many "Main Street programs" in DC, but that's an argument for another day.

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

First, it allows revenue forecasters and budget analysts (amongst others) to more easily explain the forecast results, assumptions, limitations, and processes to elected officials, managers, and residents. Accounting details (including the fund). Second, it is an important tool for future forecasts. Quite a bit.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

To sum up, in the words of Shayne Kavanagh, senior manager of research at GFOA’s Research and Consulting Center, “There is compelling evidence that these things are often not effective.” It feels like this may be a good time for greater demand for accountability when it comes to economic development spending.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. Contracting and Accountability. For example, the stock of private prison companies that were out of favor with Obama shot up as Trump’s election became more likely. The checks and balances of the U.S. For example, the George W.

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