The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 25, 2023

NYU Furman Center Releases State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2022 We are thrilled to announce the release of the comprehensive report the State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods in 2022.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

New York City zoning laws require minimum off-street parking in many areas, which often results in an oversupply of parking spaces where market demand for off-street parking is relatively low. These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the hotel industry in New York City, policymakers considered whether to promote the reuse of distressed hotel buildings as housing. In a new white paper , the NYU Furman Center’s Noah Kazis details essential background information on the matter of hotel-to-housing conversions.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These two Banks are diving into issues such as housing affordability and the rural/urban divide in the Southeastern U.S. Federal Reserve System was signed into law in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Concerns about affordable housing provide a wonderful example. Background on CED work within the U.S. Copyright: Public Domain.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Addressing these properties requires intervention at multiple points and systems—and one powerful tool many communities use to address vacancy and promote equitable development is the land bank. 31 of The Road Ahead ) 2. 31), green spaces (pg. 30), new businesses (pg. 46), and even a community apiary (pg.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 17, 2021

The NYU Furman Center analyzed several housing indicators to gain deeper insight into the initial impacts of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA). For these reasons, some argued prior to the law’s passage that the HSTPA would negatively impact building values in the short- and long-term.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. They are doing a development (" Downtown Flint YMCA project gets $1.5M

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As AI technologies become essential in federal agencies, establishing a responsible, secure, and ethical framework for their development and deployment is crucial. The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 further bolsters this foundation by promoting AI research and policy development.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 14, 2023

New York City’s least-dense community districts are permitting new housing at lower rates compared to the rest of the city, raising questions for policymakers over how to achieve fair and equitable housing growth across a broad range of neighborhood types, according to a recent report from the NYU Furman Center.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 22, 2024

In the New York Times article " Corruption, Sewage, Apathy: A Federal Watchdog on What He Saw at NYCHA ," the person who served as receiver for the New York City Housing Authority discusses his experience there. There is the regulatory, which is strictly numbers, the law, getting to the line without going over. What is that and why?

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence. The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management will create policies and procedures governing such AI assessments and clarifying how agencies must develop, procure and implement their AI systems. Beginning on Dec.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 5, 2024

Prior to his service at FEMA, he served as the Director of Preparedness Policy for the White House Homeland Security Council. He holds a Juris Doctorate from the Widener University Law School, Wilmington, Del. Prior to his service at FEMA, he served as the Director of Preparedness Policy for the White House Homeland Security Council.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. See also Maureen Berner’s post on mobile homes as a significant source of affordable housing in NC. unc.live/3SEV3f6. September 2022.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 8, 2024

Among the documents shared online are rent statements, applications for council housing purchases, and identification documents such as passport information. The council has taken action by notifying the Information Commissioner and collaborating with law enforcement agencies to investigate the incident.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact. Case studies We have published seven micro case studies that examine how federal, state and local government agencies work to implement these laws.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. For example, land banks in New York are: Expanding the Production of Affordable Housing. Supporting Workforce Development Goals. What the heck is a land bank ?”

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

It is the only national community development conference dedicated specifically to reusing “ blighted ” properties—what we call vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties. When : October 9-11, 2024. There is an optional service project (a creative placemaking installation on a vacant lot) happening in the morning.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a significant new resource on local food system development (discussed below) was released just this morning. Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. The Historical Commission, always deferential to real estate interests, continues to allow developers great leeway. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

What does this have to do with winning grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)? More importantly, it’s sound planning and program development. She returned home, visited her ophthalmologist, and now sports fashion-forward glasses that have transformed her vision. Quite a bit.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. A recent great example is the Water Resources Development Act.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 23, 2023

Many appointees arrive from nonprofits, law firms, state governments and other industries with expertise that qualified them for their roles, but potentially with countless questions about processes and practices of the federal government.

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GovLoop

MARCH 14, 2024

AI could be one of the most significant areas of growth and development in government, as well as in places where the private sector and government meet. Working with a governance board, the officer will develop processes for AI testing, including the use of red teams, or internal “hackers,” who work to expose system flaws.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regulatory compliance – Stringent regulations in areas such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the data privacy and breach laws applicable to government and nonprofit sectors may constrain the permissible use cases for generative AI.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. As a preservationist, I prefer not to tear down buildings.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Technically.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it. Though heirs’ property is widespread, it disproportionately affects Black landowners in the South due to the legacy of slavery and racist land ownership laws.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2024

To meet mission needs, federal agencies must interact with databases containing everything from personal records to geographical information to law enforcement data. It’s imperative that these databases comply with the White House zero-trust security mandate. said Jeremy Wilson, EDB’s CTO – North America Public Sector. “EDB

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Government Technology Insider

JUNE 13, 2024

Continuous learning programs may help agencies prepare staff to use AI solutions now and innovate with them as the technology develops. However, complying with these laws is complex. Agencies must therefore ensure their data complies with record series laws before bringing AI into their operations.

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Center for Community Progress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As executive administrator for the Louisville Metro Government’s (LMG) Codes and Regulations department, Crowe took pride in the fact that his department treated all properties with housing and building code violations the same, regardless of property owner, type, or neighborhood. The policy’s intent was to ensure fairness.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 26, 2024

You find a local home repair program and help your parents fill out an application, only to find out that they do not qualify because they do not have legal ownership—or title —to the house. The owner’s grandson, who grew up and lived in the house with his grandmother, wanted to buy the property to keep it in his family.

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