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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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The NYU Furman Center Submits Testimony on the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The city’s severe housing shortage threatens its ability to support its existing population and sustain its economic vitality and diversity. The city’s severe housing shortage threatens its ability to support its existing population and sustain its economic vitality and diversity.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Similarly, a school in her neighborhood is closing and she suggests it become a library, even though it's a good site for multiunit housing, when the main library is just a few miles away.

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Opinion: Workforce housing essential for CT economic growth

The Whistle Post

Child care and transportation are two of the challenges, and both have long been considered to have a national impact. It’s the elephant in the room, and it’s why there is now an unmistakable link between affordable housing and Connecticut’s ability to build a competitive labor force. I commend Gov.

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A dispute over Amtrak funding derailed a vote on THUD

GCN

The House GOP’s Transportation and Housing and Urban Development funding bill would cut $8 billion from the departments. But that’s not what scuttled the vote.

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How Penn State built an all-in-one campus resource app on Modo Labs’ development platform using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The right platform for efficient app development “We chose Modo Labs because it offered easy tools for creating a mobile experience that would help us consolidate all the resources that we had,” says Ryan Seilhamer, product owner of Penn State Go. Creating our own custom integrations was something that we didn’t see on other platforms.”

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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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