Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal government shutdowns occur when budget and appropriations disagreements between House, Senate, and White House leaders reach an impasse […] Source Over the weekend, Congress unexpectedly changed course and approved a Continuing Resolution that will temporarily keep the government open for 45 more days.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. In advocacy work, I have found that to be particularly true. Speak with a unified voice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Both this entry and the previous one on White's Ferry ("R evisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties ") involve protest and advocacy as a way to get better policy outcomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) acts as extensible and robust storage for housing user-uploaded photos and videos, user-entered stories, and journal entries persisted by the application. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa. Unifying data to boost nonprofit fundraising outcomes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. As a preservationist, I prefer not to tear down buildings.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2024

That's pretty close to us, and Sugar House is where Sugar House Park is, where I'm on the board. Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree. There was an ice cream manufacturing plant, now slated for housing. Salt Lake. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 28, 2024

When you live next door to a long-abandoned house or down the street from a vacant lot that’s a magnet for illegal dumping , it’s easy to feel powerless to do anything about it. Vacant or “ blighted ” properties—whether dilapidated, abandoned homes or vacant, overgrown lots— harm neighbors and neighborhoods. This process takes years.

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GovLoop

JUNE 12, 2024

Priorities for States Each year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) publishes federal advocacy priorities that represent areas of focus for the upcoming year and how states can collaborate with federal agencies, Congress, the White House and strategic partners.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

My dissertation was on the rhetorics of advocacy in Appalachia, and I knew from my field research that nonprofits in the region could use help with their communications and grant writing. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. It was the house. I had to pause and look inward.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) A traffic lane was removed and an in-ROW bicycle lane was installed on 900 East adjacent to Fairmont Park.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Run a community advocacy program . For those of you preparing for local elections, now is the time to kick off your community advocacy program to ensure you access the necessary funds and meet the growing needs of your community. . Deliver on ‘climate emergency’ rhetoric. Account for skills & experience shortages.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

Like any point of strategic adoption of technology, advocacy and support from your colleagues is often the missing link with adoption. I’ve found that a robust “FAQ” or “Start Here” section can help house some of those policies, and then you can get more specific in other categories. What to do when geese enter the building?!”)

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Featured officials shared their experiences working in the White House, and in the departments of Transportation and Commerce as they helped to implement the American Rescue Plan Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. The post That’s so major!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Water conservation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? They are responsible for assisting families and youth with finding affordable housing. Executive Director. Director of Development. Case Manager.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. Earlier this year I acquired an amazing set of materials, developed in the 1950s, although this set was from 1960, promoting advocacy and conservation, produced by the US Forest Service.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

The former school houses community-led programs focused on passing on Puerto Rican culinary and cultural heritage through distribution of hot meals and by providing educational tutoring to local youth which incorporates local music and dance.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization? This belief about the advantages of doing things in-house is why we launched Peak Proposals, which has the goal of helping nonprofits build the skills they need to undertake funder research and grant writing themselves. Are you a registered nonprofit?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Reports by the House of Lords, the National Preparedness Commission and other bodies, as well as various public inquiries, have drawn attention to the deficiencies of the civil protection system. With a general election pending there is an opportunity to produce some strong advocacy for the development of a better civil protection system.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. First, if the grant writer is in-house, she’ll know your institution’s policies and procedures related to grant development.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I learned long ago that I’m a lot less likely to eat ice cream if I don’t keep ice cream in the house; having to actually get up and go out for ice cream lowers the willpower cost of saying no (and if I want the ice cream that much, I probably deserve it). Cheer yourself on.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

IDEM – Clean Air Tip This site goes beyond the usual and shows you how to reduce your pollution contribution at the office and around the house. Clean Air Advocacy In these letters to the editor of Backwoods Home, readers gain tips on canning garlic and mixed vegetables. Clean Energy Websites. Where does your city rank?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts. Ward Halls/Democracy House. This week: How about volunteering in something? Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Tory has shown a “lack of vision and action” on pressing issues like the housing crisis that is “almost shameful,” Penalosa said in an interview. To join the ranks of great global cities like Paris, London or New York, he argues, Toronto needs a bold mayor.

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