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.
Budgeting Local Government Voting 
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Community Engagement Trends for 2025
Social Pinpoint
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Local governments in Australia are seeking innovative ways to use compensation methods to enhance community participation. This is often done by providing members with consultation links, suggested wording for submissions, and encouraging up-votes on other pickleball-related public submissions.
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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MAY 16, 2022
What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ? One thing is certain: government alone does not have the resources to construct and operate the needed housing units. Accordingly, a preliminary step for a local government is to conduct an assessment of the local housing need.
Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!
zencity
MAY 3, 2023
We’ve welcomed numerous new partner communities across the world, rolled out cutting-edge new features, including the first-ever use case of ChatGPT in local government , and re-launched as the best full-service community engagement platform available for government today. Welcome to the team, Maurice!
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.
Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.
Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Basically our local government finance systems were set up when the country was growing. The economic circumstances they face are issues common to that of municipal finance for communities and metro areas across the country, which I wrote about in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016).
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