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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

JULY 26, 2024

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. The passage of the ADA was preceded by years of activism and advocacy-group efforts. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S.

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Advocacy Regulations Public Transportation Transportation

Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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Maximizing Municipal Budgets: Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners

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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

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.

Stewardship

Stewardship Legislation Advocacy Parks And Recreation

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Maximizing Municipal Budgets: Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners

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Revisiting Mott's Market corner store in Capitol Hill DC: residents buy the building after all

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.

Advocacy

Advocacy Laws Regulations Transportation

That’s so major! The Partnership’s work supporting leaders of major federal investments programs

Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact. Case studies We have published seven micro case studies that examine how federal, state and local government agencies work to implement these laws.

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What can neighbors do about vacant buildings and lots?

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. Laws in the United States are designed to protect an individual’s private property. This process takes years.

Housing

Housing Local Government Elected Officials Laws

Community Gardens as Community Building and Neighborhood Stabilization in Weak Markets

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.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Housing Advocacy Education

Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

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.

Transportation

Transportation Advocacy Sustainability Coordinator

Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

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.

Budgeting

Budgeting Advocacy Housing Communications

Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

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.

Housing

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

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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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

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.

Housing

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

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.

Advocacy

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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role. A few of the current available options include with non-profits, government organizations, and even law. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? Executive Director. Case Manager.

Public Administration

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Fresh Blogging: The Top 50 Clean Air Advocacy Blogs

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. Let us count the ways!

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Advocacy Laws Implementation Voting

National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Republicans are up in arms that the Biden Administration wants to make "conservation" a legitimate land use for the leasing of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (" House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal ," Roll Call ). Trails access, mountain and electric bikes. Wilderness.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Advocacy Security Laws

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct. O’Hara (2010, p.

Social Media

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

Webinars

Trending Sources

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

Webinars

Revisiting Mott's Market corner store in Capitol Hill DC: residents buy the building after all

That’s so major! The Partnership’s work supporting leaders of major federal investments programs

What can neighbors do about vacant buildings and lots?

Community Gardens as Community Building and Neighborhood Stabilization in Weak Markets

Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

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

25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Fresh Blogging: The Top 50 Clean Air Advocacy Blogs

National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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