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Better Parking Management Can Help Cities Recover from COVID and Achieve Public Policy Goals

The City Fix

MARCH 3, 2021

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

Public Policy

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Middle Income Families: Unintended Policy Consequences w/ Bob Mendez

Policy Chats

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this episode, Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce Chairman of the Board Bob Mendez talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about policies that impact middle income families, and how we can alter existing policies to create a better environment for them to thrive.

Public Policy

Public Policy Housing Regulations Budgeting

Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. Understanding Proposal Budgets When you search for potential funders, it is beneficial to have a sense of how much your project will cost.

Grant Writer

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Bob Mendez: Middle Income Families and Unintended Policy Consequences

Policy Chats

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this episode, Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce Chairman of the Board Bob Mendez talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about policies that impact middle income families, and how we can alter existing policies to create a better environment for them to thrive.

Public Policy

Public Policy Housing Regulations Budgeting

Bob Mendez: Middle Income Families: Unintended Policy Consequences

Policy Chats

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this episode, Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce Chairman of the Board Bob Mendez talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about policies that impact middle income families, and how we can alter existing policies to create a better environment for them to thrive.

Public Policy

Public Policy Housing Regulations Budgeting

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)

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. The public persona of a GSE, meanwhile, is that it carries out a congressionally defined public purpose mission 6 and is given subsidies and privileges to do so.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

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. This included nationwide listening sessions and other opportunities for public input. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Public Administration Consultant. Being an expert in administration, many public administration professionals can go into consulting. They make policy and procedural recommendations for meeting budgets, deadlines, etc. This public administration career is the sort of CEO of a non-profit group. Housing Specialist.

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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He has a master’s degree in public policy from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from Colby College. Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. Ben lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, son, and dog Sophie.

Leadership

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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The institute, which is based at the University of Utah, provides state and local leaders with economic, demographic and public policy research. Their research supports policy development around a wide array of issues, from transportation, energy and natural resources to education and housing.

Communications

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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 could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S.

Advocacy

Advocacy Housing Regulations Legislation

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

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.

Press Release

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

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. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.

Local Government

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. gentrification crisis?

Transportation

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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

While those grievances shared a common theme: discontent with the power of corporations and alarm that the economic future of a broad swath of the population appears in jeopardy this only proves that OWS tapped into widespread public discontent. There is no guarantee of public policy change as a result of powerful new social movements.

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Public Administration Today

Better Parking Management Can Help Cities Recover from COVID and Achieve Public Policy Goals

Middle Income Families: Unintended Policy Consequences w/ Bob Mendez

Trending Sources

Finding Funding for Research

Bob Mendez: Middle Income Families and Unintended Policy Consequences

Bob Mendez: Middle Income Families: Unintended Policy Consequences

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

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Meet the New Featured Contributors

Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

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

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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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