Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Plus the NFL team wants a new stadium and Mayor Bowser of DC would like to waste money attracting them back to DC (" House passes bipartisan bill to let D.C. redevelop RFK Stadium site ," Washington Post ). I'm not sure I agree. The AAC cost $420 million to build, and it opened in October of 2001. Thirty years and she’s done.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

In 1914, they fielded a women’s varsity basketball team, six years before women had the right to vote. “We The new business insights have allowed them to transition their sales roles in-house, saving money even after bringing on additional analytics talent. The work continues!” says Varley.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Flickr photo by Ken Lund. Other areas too.)

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

history, providing housing and services in record time to more than 72,000 people who fled from Afghanistan in 2021 as American military forces withdrew from the country. Agency for International Development. Agency for International Development. People’s Choice Award: Josh Josa, U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. Below, we’ve listed the five trends we have mapped as the top 2023 online community engagement trends.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

Acting as the county’s principle guiding document for governance, community development, infrastructure and service delivery, the county’s strategic plan serves as a foundation for the development of a corporate business plan, departmental business plans, the county master plan, and priority-based budget results and budgeting, itself.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

IDEM – Clean Air Tip This site goes beyond the usual and shows you how to reduce your pollution contribution at the office and around the house. Clean Energy Fuels One of the last ways we vote is with our dollar, so learn about the companies that run their delivery trucks using clean fuels. Let us count the ways!

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the worlds population went to the ballot box some voting for radical change extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Parks should develop programs to assist people of lesser means in enabling their participation. presidential election.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. presidential election.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 12, 2017

And proudly because DCFPI played a major role in developing and then advocating for a policy that will ensure very poor families some cash assistance, activities that may get them jobs so they no longer need it and child care so they can meet those activity requirement. It’s not the first effort to cut SSI funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah. And the Governor says when progressives complain, "Vote." Gerrymandering is even worse than before.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

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.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

These efforts build on previous White House efforts to connect with users across a range of social media sites and make the experience of the speech appropriate to each platform. And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). No small feat. Not a West Wing fan?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

Some Republicans may balk at some details, but the major thrusts replicate those in budgets the House has passed ever since Republicans gained control in 2010. If the House and Senate can then agree on a resolution, the actual spending and/or tax cuts need only a majority vote in the Senate.

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