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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Building SibsForever.org has required patience, commitment, and skilled leadership. Lessons learned.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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State of Land Banking: 2023 Survey Highlights 

Center for Community Progress

81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. Increasingly, land banks have been called on to respond to growing housing affordability needs. 16 percent of land banks reported local-level political leadership to be one of the biggest threats to their success.

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

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. Capitol, and then roughly 60 people relinquished their walkers and other mobility aids to crawl up the Capitol steps as part of the protest.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

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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Gil Penalosa is running for Mayor of Toronto

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The thread running through Penalosa’s campaign is that Toronto is a good place to live, but its timid leadership has held it back. 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.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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.