Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ).
zencity
JANUARY 18, 2022
From my perspective, the past few years have given rise to a perfect storm – where COVID-19 is one of the biggest contributing stressors – and a storm that is unavoidable for our residents, our employees, and ourselves as city managers. Some cities might have the capacity to have a counselor in-house.
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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
MAY 12, 2023
Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. To do all of that, our position should be housed in a department or with a team that naturally allows interaction with our peers and has some semblance of authority in decision-making.
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
APRIL 25, 2016
City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. This article originally written by Becky Zimmer from the Humboldt Journal. The public had their chance to ask questions on April 5th at the public budget meeting at the Uniplex.
Center for Community Progress
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The City of Detroit’s innovative Make it Home program harnesses the power of a traditionally harmful system—the property tax foreclosure process—and uses it to increase affordable homeownership, improve housing conditions, and stabilize neighborhoods. Make it Home is a “win-win-win” for tenants, neighborhoods, and the City.
Center for Community Progress
APRIL 14, 2023
For communities with a large number of these so-called “ blighted properties ”—the result of decades of disinvestment, population loss, and unjust land and housing policy—the challenge is how to stop those properties from harming their communities and get them back to productive use equitably, efficiently, and effectively.
Masters in Public Administration
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
City Manager. City managers are public administrators who try to make city governments operate with the efficiency of successful businesses. They are chosen by elected officials and can work for small towns on a part time basis or for large cities. Housing Specialist. Case Manager.
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