Congress finally approves spending budget, nearly six months late
GCN
MARCH 23, 2024
The vote in the House and Senate averts a shutdown and brings funding certainty. But several programs significant to state and local governments saw cuts.
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LocalGov Drupal on AWS serves as a digital transformation resource for local governments
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 24, 2024
Government organizations face challenges that include tight budgets and rapidly evolving citizen demands. In the UK, 44 local government bodies—called councils—use an open approach to share expertise and pool resources to transform their web publishing platforms using LocalGov Drupal.
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Local Governments Prioritizing Housing Stability Led Cities and Towns from Pandemic Front Lines to Strong and Equitable Recovery
NLC (National League of Cities)
MARCH 6, 2024
The American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA’s) $65 billion in direct federal grants to all of America’s 19,000-plus cities, towns, and villages provided both necessary budget relief and made local governments a principal part of the nation’s solution to reversing pandemic-related declines in housing stability.
Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing
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 ?
Here’s what’s in Biden’s budget plan for state and local governments
GCN
MARCH 10, 2023
The administration, among other things, wants to dramatically increase funding for housing and restore the child tax credit.
What’s Going On with ARP Infrastructure Investment in North Carolina?
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
APRIL 18, 2023
Where and how is that local government money being invested? The answer can be found through The Local Government ARP Investment Tracker, created by a partnership between The National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, and Brookings Metro, and updated yesterday (April 17, 2023). Public Space 12.5
Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.
Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List
GovLoop
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Bateman and her team focus on demographics and work extensively with Census data, but also create their own datasets based on local input. Their research supports policy development around a wide array of issues, from transportation, energy and natural resources to education and housing.
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Unhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution Kiip
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Social Security cards, birth certificates, and proof of disability are crucial for accessing services and applying for housing. If this individual remained in custody, they could have lost their bed in the shelter, requiring a restart of their journey towards being permanently housed. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector team.
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3 Ways to Stretch IT Budgets and Match Funds to the Right Initiatives
Government Technology Insider
AUGUST 31, 2022
At the end of the 2021 fiscal year, the IRS was forced to make up a $600 million IT funding shortfall and highlighted an urgent gap in funding for technology modernization , largely driven by pandemic-driven demand for digital services across the government. At the state and local levels, budgets prove thinner.
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What is a tax lien sale and why is it a bad way of dealing with vacant properties?
Center for Community Progress
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Once property taxes are considered delinquent, local governments typically focus on providing notice of delinquency and attempting to collect the unpaid amounts from the owner. After providing notice to the property owner of delinquency, many local governments have the power, granted in state law, to foreclose on unpaid property taxes.
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How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures
American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
However, improvements in technology are helping local governments provide accurate assessments of flood risk, so steps can be taken to provide early and accurate warning of flood events, minimize potential losses, and improve outcomes and overall resilience after a flood occurs. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S.
Why Federal Grants Are Critical to State and Local Cyberdefenses
State Tech Magazine
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
As supplemental federal COVID-19 funding runs out and inflation makes it increasingly more expensive for state and local governments to borrow money, department budgets will remain tight.
NYC Broadband Program Closes the Digital Divide
GovLoop
JANUARY 17, 2024
To help close the digital divide, the city created Big Apple Connect — a subsidy program that provides free broadband and basic cable access to people living in NYC public housing. So far, coverage is available in 220 public housing developments. This article appeared in our guide, “ State and Local: Making an Impact.”
Recognizing the Long Road Ahead to Urban Connectivity in the U.S.
The City Fix
JUNE 5, 2023
In March 2023, the White House announced its federal budget, including funding for a groundbreaking initiative: the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP). The program is unlike anything the U.S. has supported in the past as it will provide matching.
Leaders in Land Banking: A Conversation with the Directors of the Savannah-Chatham Land Bank Authority and Omaha Municipal Land Bank
Center for Community Progress
MAY 2, 2023
The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building.
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What Tyler v. Hennepin County Means for the Future of Property Tax Foreclosure Systems Across the Country
Center for Community Progress
MAY 26, 2023
Indeed, most local governments report that almost all owners pay their property taxes on time. In our decade of work to help local governments and advocates address widespread vacant and abandoned properties , we’ve seen the impact of property tax foreclosure across the country.
What Does True Collaboration Look Like?
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
AUGUST 4, 2023
We all like to think we collaborate with our fellow nonprofits, local governments, and other neighbors, but do we really? The local hospital provides diagnostic lab work at no cost to the clinic. Collaboration is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot, especially in the grant world. Doctors donate their time.
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How to Accelerate Government Modernization
GovLoop
APRIL 1, 2024
“Modernization is crucial for agencies to stay agile, secure, and responsive to evolving needs,” said Francisco Ramirez, Chief Architect of State and Local Government at Red Hat. Agencies struggle with budget constraints, and it can be difficult to demonstrate a practical return on investment for IT infrastructure upgrades.
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How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
Center for Community Progress
JULY 29, 2024
We have sessions on how recent Supreme Court decisions could change the tools your state uses to tackle vacancy; leveraging VAD property to address the housing affordability crisis; using vacant land to mitigate the effects of extreme weather; and much, much more. Our conference agenda covers timely, pressing topics.
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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight
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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Using the cloud to integrate homelessness data with whole-person care services
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 12, 2023
In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. In communities across the country, organizations, philanthropists, and government are working hard to make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Clarity Human Services runs on AWS. The 2022 U.S.
GOVERNMENT INTERNET FRUSTRATIONS
Barrett & Greene
JUNE 24, 2024
We get a great deal of information from the Internet for our work, and there’s little question that the easy access to tons of reports, studies, surveys, legislation, audits, budgets, meeting minutes, essays, graphs, etc., has revolutionized research and reporting on all fronts, not just state and local government.
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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 9, 2024
I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.
What does equitable code enforcement look like? How Louisville is taking steps to use its code enforcement process to advance racial equity
Center for Community Progress
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
As executive administrator for the Louisville Metro Government’s (LMG) Codes and Regulations department, Crowe took pride in the fact that his department treated all properties with housing and building code violations the same, regardless of property owner, type, or neighborhood. The policy’s intent was to ensure fairness.
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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters
Death and Taxes
JULY 21, 2021
It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.
From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 22, 2024
Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.
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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 10, 2024
For example, New York City, which has just opened up a bunch of new library facilities (" A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue ," New York Times ) proposed budget cuts that could lead to weekend closures (" NYC Budget Would Close Libraries On Weekends While Police Get Huge Bonuses ," Vice). Libraries as community hubs.
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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”
25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration
Masters in Public Administration
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
State and local governments, as well as finance and insurance, are also potential employers. They make policy and procedural recommendations for meeting budgets, deadlines, etc. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? Budget Analyst. Case Manager. Urban Planner.
That’s so major! The Partnership’s work supporting leaders of major federal investments programs
Partnership for Public Service
JULY 16, 2024
Case studies We have published seven micro case studies that examine how federal, state and local government agencies work to implement these laws. We learned from implementors that strong technical assistance programs are key in helping state and local governments, and communities, apply for and manage federal funding.
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Aligning the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS with UK National Cyber Security Centre guidance
AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
If you don’t have these capabilities in-house, you can get support either through AWS Professional Services, such as with the regulated landing zone offering, or with AWS Partners who have specific LZA offerings. Finance – responsible for reporting on budget utilisation and spend/cross charging across the organisation.
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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. ," Bloomberg). And there is no oversight.
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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. Good luck with that. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)
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5 Ways India Can Use Innovation to Meet Its Urbanization Challenges
The City Fix
MAY 2, 2023
India is projected to overtake China as the most populous country in the world this year. The shifting demographics are bound to create heightened demand for education, health care, jobs and civic amenities, putting existing systems under stress. Current urban.
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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers
Emergency Management Degree Guide
APRIL 26, 2013
We managed to attract customers who wanted a good quality of service but who had recently tightened their budgets.” Indeed, according to local government officials, there are around 2,000 in the Xuhui district of Shanghai alone. Tea House on Bunker – Vreeswijk, Netherlands. Image Source.
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Meet the New Featured Contributors
GovLoop
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
OPEXUS (formerly AINS) is a DC-based GovTech 100 awardee whose mission is to empower professionals to elevate trust in public institutions through the design, development, and delivery of specialized case management software, including Open Government (FOIA and Correspondence), OIG Audits and Investigations, and Human Resources/Employee Management.
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Now hiring! Why tech talent should consider careers in public service
Partnership for Public Service
JANUARY 18, 2023
The federal tech workforce Less than 4% of all federal IT workers are under age 30, and a growing number are near retirement age, a disparity that partly explains why hundreds of IT positions are currently listed on USAJOBS, the government’s central hiring website.
Now hiring! Why top tech talent should consider careers in public service
Partnership for Public Service
JANUARY 18, 2023
Less than 4% of all federal IT workers are under age 30, and a growing number are near retirement age, a disparity that partly explains why hundreds of IT positions are currently listed on USAJOBS, the government’s central hiring website.
National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Special Funding. This was a childcare measure among others. Capital City Public Charter School, DC. but it fell off.
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. MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy.
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How Local Governments Can Secure Funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
Bang the Table
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In November 2021, the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal of new federal investment in America’s infrastructure. Local governments applying for funds will need to consider that new programs and projects will require more staff.
Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends
Social Pinpoint
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. Now a popular tool, Fund It is certainly seeing more use in local government budgeting processes.
Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 3, 2022
This is an issue in the UK, because 10+ years of austerity have crush public agencies and local governments--some have lost as much as 2/3 of their budget, at the cost of public libraries, health care, maintenance of streets, sidewalks, parks, etc.
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