American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key activities of risk management include: Communicating and consulting Establishing a context Identifying Analyzing Evaluating Treating Monitoring Reviewing Risk management should first and foremost be approached as a partnership. This requires a significant amount of training that aligns with departmental and community needs.

Disaster Response 68

Disaster Response Coordinator Cultivation Education 68

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The framework aims to enshire fair housing into law to ensure that every New Yorker has equal and fair housing. It also creates a plan for growth guided by equity to ensure all communities fairly contribute to the city’s housing needs and housing that built is accessible to all. The rate fell from 4.54 We gotta fix this.”

Housing 114

Housing Legislation Development Laws 114

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Building Better City-CLT Partnerships: A Program Manual for Municipalities and Community Land Trusts.”

Housing 92

Housing Local Government Community Development Laws 92

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

” Panelist Yoselin Genao-Estrella, the Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Queens, agreed, arguing that low-density community districts require more policy attention. The homeownership rate is far lower for Hispanic of any race households at around 30 percent.

Engagement 115

Engagement Housing Laws Advocacy 115

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!

Press Release 52

Press Release Community Engagement Local Government Voting 52

Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Using the Feature Grid cards, Alpine allows residents to choose from six community hubs based on their interests. For example, the Council’s Animal Hub keeps residents updated on lost and found pets collected by the Local Laws team and provides information on animals available for adoption and fostering.

Community Engagement 52

Community Engagement Engagement Advocacy Translation 52

zencity

JULY 12, 2023

Develop a basic Threads strategy. What must you consider to comply with your state and local laws? While Threads is new, it is moving so quickly that it makes sense to take basic steps to prepare for its adoption by your community. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is an early, active adopter of Threads.

Local Government 98

Local Government Social Media Government Accountability 98

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. Laws protect their operatives and define their responsibilities in major emergencies.

Management 92

Management Operations Laws Regulations 92

zencity

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we kick off 2022, we’re planning to attend dozens more city , county , and law enforcement conferences mapped out over 25 US states and three countries including the UK and Spain. Zencity may work primarily with cities, counties, and law enforcement, but we also work with state agencies and for us, this is not a conference to be missed.

Local Government 52

Local Government Government City Manager Engagement 52

Barrett & Greene

MAY 8, 2023

Improving community trust would require applying these practices: ​ intention listening for understanding commitment. ​ Then, in 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, we were faced with the community outrage surrounding the death of another Black man, George Floyd, dying at the hands of law enforcement.

Government 52

Government Public Safety Communications Engagement 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In many modern cities, the development of a collective consciousness is hampered by the problems of urban living: expensive, sub-standard housing, which is in short supply; exploitation through poor, badly remunerated working conditions; pollution, overcrowding, and so on. The DRR community has to be created, not discovered.

Laws 52

Laws Management Translation Community Engagement 52

The City Fix

JULY 30, 2024

When you hear “infrastructure,” most people naturally think of the physical built environment — roads, bridges, buildings. There’s a lot less emphasis on other kinds of infrastructure that are equally as important, like civic infrastructure. Civic infrastructure encompasses a broad.

Community Engagement 59

Community Engagement Economic Development Laws Local Government 59

The City Fix

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This triggered the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) a unique law that requires companies. In 2019, Stellantis (then known as Fiat Chrysler) announced a $2.5 billion plan to expand and modernize two of its auto assembly plants in Detroit.

Laws 52

Laws Development Community Engagement Community Development 52