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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

In response to our question, What is missing from the definition of conservancy? These sites and discussions showed that urban land conservation can have an expansive definition that includes projects to creatively fill community needs and address pressing challenges. How can land conservation honor community experiences?

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR TOWER OF BABEL

Barrett & Greene

We thought we were the only ones, but then someone asked for a definition (which made us happy) and it turned out that there were at least a few acceptable definitions. We hear that term with frequency these days but admit to being a bit foggy on the meaning. The list goes on.

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Our Commitment to Code Enforcement: 2024 Recap

Center for Community Progress

Louis, Missouri, we co-hosted a roundtable with the Strategic Code Enforcement Management Academy (SCEMA) that brought together leading practitioners and thinkers on code enforcement to discuss the current definition of strategic code enforcement. We shared key takeaways from the roundtable at one of SCEMAs virtual lectures.

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Journey Maps Help You Find and Fix Problems

GovLoop

Key Definition: User Personas Generalized, research-based profiles of key customers that capture what an agency knows about its audience. The maps help agencies set priorities, allocate resources and identify process improvements, and they help ensure that government services are accessible and seamless. Heres how journey maps work.

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Securely onboarding countries to the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Definition of the security controls on the customer side of the responsibility model is based on the AWS security best practices, such as AWS Security Reference Architecture or AWS Well-Architected Framework. This determines the amount of configuration work the customer must perform as part of their security responsibilities.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

18 Freddie Mac , as a GSE, definitely has a very large balance sheet along with a strong financial capacity to fund timely payment of interest and principal. Thus, it has long required that servicers only make those payments for up to four months, taking on the obligation itself after that point. 2 See [link].

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

This doesn’t change the definition of moderate-income—it merely makes higher-income households eligible for the program alongside LMI households. 5] See the North Carolina Rehabilitation Code for a definition of rehabilitation. UNC Institute of Government, 1975), 51–52 (explaining that the predecessor statute to G.S.