Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2023

The issue is the money to pay for it, both immediately and ongoing. -- " Ending homelessness in King County will cost billions, regional authority says ," Seattle Times From the article: What would it take to end homelessness in King County? More than Seattle and county budgets have ever allocated. And more than double what Gov.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. DFI in the news: UNC DFI helps Buncombe County consider whether their downtown assets might be repurposed for affordable housing: bit.ly/3ugHBDC.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 19, 2024

There's an interesting article on the "gentrification" of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. The article online has the title " Rise in residential development in Germantown sparks optimism — and caution ," WHYY/NPR). Even in Mount Airy you could buy huge beautiful stone houses for under $600,000. Kenyon Lofts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of my biggest learnings in transit planning is the necessity of separating planning from budgeting. Andy Larsen, the data-based beat (and also Utah Jazz) reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune , has a great article (" Need help deciding where to live? And then come up with the funding to make it happen.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles. 1 venue in the world." Note that this was written before it was announced that the Washington Wizards and Capitals would be moving to Alexandria, Virginia.

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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. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 30, 2024

Granicus Experience Group To help agencies achieve their CX objectives — ultimately supporting critical mission goals — Granicus’ in-house team, the Granicus Experience Group (GXG), is a strategic digital and communications starting point, Ainsbury said. This article appears in our guide, “ CX: Turning Good Ideas Into Practice.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

From the article: Libraries and librarians play such a crucial role in the well-being of our communities, and the Delaware public libraries are no exception. From the article: Addressing the U.S. Normally it's at the end of the month, this year, the middle. Although later the proposal was rescinded. Libraries as community hubs.

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Agencies struggle with budget constraints, and it can be difficult to demonstrate a practical return on investment for IT infrastructure upgrades. This article appears in our guide, “ How to Kickstart Modernization.” “Agencies need to transform their legacy systems, leveraging contemporary technologies and methodologies.”

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2024

I went to a new concept charter school in downtown Winston Salem that was housed in the basement of an office building,” explains Megan. It was important to me that we have a way to not only highlight that content for larger audiences but also share it differently, as blog articles can be interacted with much differently than print pieces.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc.,

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Cloud technology has replaced in-house infrastructure. A Core Need In August 2021, the Office of Management and Budget released Memorandum 21-31, establishing federal requirements designed to increase government’s network visibility before, during and after a cybersecurity event. Employees conduct work on their personal computers.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The problem is that the surge in demand is happening when agencies are dealing with budget constraints and worker shortages. Zendesk has helped the Georgia Housing Voucher Program (GHVP) adopt an omnichannel approach to customer service. It enables convenient, continuous conversations across all channels. A Study in Complexity.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

“There’s an initiative called the National Collaborative for Digital Equity that has started a campaign called One Percent for Digital Equity, and the call is to ask CRA officers to commit one percent of their CRA budget to digital equity. It’s opened up a really powerful funding stream for organizations who are trying to do this work.”

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GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2022

Others want to manage budgets. Doing a good day’s work – fixing these air conditioners, emptying this customer service queue, editing these four articles, reading this chapter and writing the response — is a perfectly good purpose. But there are a lot of reasons people seek promotion. For example, some people want more money.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2023

But while the problems might be similar, the solution depends on the specific priorities of a given agency, factoring in both their requirements and their budgets, said Arno Bergstrom, Vice President of CounterTrade Products, a technology solutions provider and certified woman-owned small business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many have had serious budget problems. I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Traditional systems for arranging adaptations are needlessly complex, with many different teams, departments, and organisations operating in silos and using varying systems, practices, and budgets from area to area. This discretionary approach will help more people benefit from housing improvements, without the need to wait for several years.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Besides symbolizing a bygone era, Public Auditorium is one of many underused assets draining the city’s budget. The views reflected in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Ernst & Young LLP or other members of the global EY organization. Its new strategic plan shows the way.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

" We need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities." - Brad Karger, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger This article originally written by Brad Karger and published in the Summer 2016 Marathon County Newsletter. That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

To make it easier to navigate the content, we've outlined the post below, hyperlinking each section heading to the relevant part of the article. Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. This article appears in our guide, “Agency of the Future: How New Possibilities are Emerging in the Present.” The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 20, 2022

-- " Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence " -- " Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority) " The Toronto Star is running a series of articles in advance of the Mayor and City Council election this, Monday October 24th, called " Can't We Do Better? "

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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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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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But, as we’ll explain in this article, tax lien sales rarely fix the problem, nor lead to a vacant property being returned to productive use. Considering budget cuts, local governments in many states have reduced in-house property tax collection and enforcement efforts and looked to tax lien sales as a quick infusion of revenue.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Communication — No matter the field, faculty researchers are generally expected to be publication machines; they write and publish articles for specialized audiences but often are required to translate their findings for more general audiences, whether it is an introductory undergraduate course, an op-ed, or a review for a popular publication.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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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. ," Bloomberg). And there is no oversight.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A subsequent article will follow, providing an in-depth examination of the technical aspects of the Federal Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox. As AI technologies become essential in federal agencies, establishing a responsible, secure, and ethical framework for their development and deployment is crucial.

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Grant Central USA

JULY 12, 2023

In this article, we'll introduce you to the top grant writing classes for small business owners. With tight budgets, limited resources, and an uncertain future, it’s important to find ways to maximize the potential of your business. If so, then it's time to explore taking a grant-writing class.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Read on to meet the writers who will contribute two articles each month until July. You can begin reading their articles here.) Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. She holds a PMP, and CSM, and received her B.A.

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