Remove Development Remove Housing Remove Petition
article thumbnail

Citizens Benefit from Application Modernization and Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

“A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website. But Code for America has found that the petition processes “to clear criminal records in most states is complicated and burdensome.”

Petition 286
article thumbnail

Accelerating data processing for IRCC with Amazon EC2 instances

AWS Public Sector Blog

Within two days, IRCC’s in-house developed scripts were adjusted and optimized to work on a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances. Au départ, le projet pouvait se faire sur site et les jeux de données à traiter étaient beaucoup plus petits. Specifically, all machines were r5a.8xlarge

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

article thumbnail

County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. 160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.” State , 368 N.C. Bank of Statesville, 276 N.C. Additionally, G.S. Note that G.S.

article thumbnail

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.