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Unhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution Kiip

AWS Public Sector Blog

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.

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How Do You Know You Can Trust AI?

GovLoop

Whether we are talking about a system that screens applicants for housing loans, recommends a course of medical treatment or generates a legal document, we want to know how that system arrives at a decision or generates output. One of the big concerns around AI is what’s called explainability. Otherwise, we are not likely to trust it.

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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

Center cities provide a kind of quality of life benefit to the suburbs, as they tend to provide more services and get more homeless individuals as a result. It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. Mostly people moved into buildings that had been vacant. gentrification crisis?

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

He explained that in the modern world, the government must protect people from disasters created by forces outside their control, and it must provide social services that would protect people from unemployment, old age, illness, accidents, unsafe food and drugs, homelessness, and disease.