Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. While this exclusion is not very popular across the state, each year there are legislative proposals to expand its reach.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Mechanisms to help businesses and organisations identify and managed risks for the design and implementation of AI solutions are being introduced globally, including a variety of international standards ( ISO 42001 , ISO 23894 , and NIST RMF ), legislation ( EU AI Act ), and localised standards and frameworks such as the NSW AI Assurance Framework.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Top New York City officials urged state leaders in Albany to provide the necessary funding and legislative support to build additional housing as the city contends with its worst housing crunch in over 50 years. "We The framework aims to enshire fair housing into law to ensure that every New Yorker has equal and fair housing.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

It expands on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, providing detailed guidance and recommendations that account for the special set of legal, legislative, accountability, and trust requirements that governments have – and helps them deliver meaningful outcomes on AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Initially developed to livestream using AWS Elemental Link encoders and AWS Elemental MediaLive , Nomad now also supports using Amazon Interactive Video Service ( Amazon IVS ) for added flexibility. How data-driven technology helps law enforcement agencies improve constituent outcomes.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 17, 2022

Eisenberg , associate professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, discusses the unique challenges and approaches to addressing vacancy in rural communities. In most states, land banks also require enabling state legislation to be created. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Among other things, the session focused on OMB’s continued focus on ERM and how OMB expects agencies to use ERM to help successfully implement legislation such as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act —a topic outlined in recent OMB memorandum M-22-12. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Legislation to govern AI and data practices is emerging in the European Union and Colorado in addition to GDPR provision under Article 22, promising a proactive approach compared to the unregulated growth of social media in the early 2000s. However, it remains unclear how these laws will be interpreted in court.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Last month, we witnessed history as the Great American Outdoors Act was officially signed into law. This legislation will definitively fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Part two will be released on Tuesday, September 22, where we’ll explore how the Great American Outdoors Act was passed in Congress.

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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. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. Supporting Workforce Development Goals.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. Davis, John E.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2023 so far, at least 27 states and territories have pursued more than 80 bills related to AI, including legislation to study, restrict or prohibit its use. A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence. Among other objectives, the working group will make recommendations for additional AI legislation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

DECEMBER 16, 2024

However, if completed, the proposed projects would continue a long-standing trend where a limited number of community districts produce housing at relatively high rates, underscoring the need for policies that promote equitable development in a broader range of neighborhoods. Uneven development patterns continue.

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Policy Chats

AUGUST 30, 2021

About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs. Seitz has 20+ years of experience in policy development, legislative analysis and institutional reform. About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs.

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Policy Chats

AUGUST 30, 2021

About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs. Seitz has 20+ years of experience in policy development, legislative analysis and institutional reform. About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs.

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Policy Chats

AUGUST 30, 2021

About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs. Seitz has 20+ years of experience in policy development, legislative analysis and institutional reform. About Lorna Seitz: Lorna Seitz is an expert in developing transformative laws, policies and programs.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. Understanding the dynamics of small areas like individual properties, blocks, and neighborhoods is key to developing revitalization strategies tailored to block-by-block needs. But conditions in the community development landscape can also change quickly.

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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

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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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 11, 2021

One important constraint on conversions is state and local land use law. Zoning designations govern where housing development is allowed, which in many cases is not where hotels currently are. Already, current law allows some conversions notwithstanding these regulatory barriers.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Legacy infrastructure and IT, and legislative and regulatory mandates, can pose problems for mission-oriented government employees. For instance, a large law enforcement agency is using the Qualtrics platform to assist employees who struggle with mental health. Some knowledge is life-changing.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which includes $10 billion in grants that primarily flow through states, is just one of the funding sources. Developing data that provides evidence of different sources of PFAS could help municipalities in this instance. These initial funding channels have a sunset, while the EPA ruling is forever.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works. Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy. Failure to utilise the basic law is an indication that it is not fit for purpose.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Passed in 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) is one of the most important pieces of legislation working to bring financial resources into historically underserved neighborhoods nationwide. You can read our comment here. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible. Don’t limit the scope or scale of CRA.

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Social Equity Council and the legislation are attempting to ensure the opportunity to prosper for marginalized groups that have been disproportionately harmed by the War on Drugs,” said Fred McKinney, Ph.D., Founder BJM Solutions. “This Manifesto provides the first vital step towards that goal.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. Additionally, a decade later in 1999, legislated changes were made that included broadening the asset types that could be used as collateral to secure FHLB advances.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Cybersecurity has been subject to a wave of change over the last decade and is reflected in the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme Threat actors have developed extremely innovative ways of performing devastating attacks – an expanding arsenal of techniques that has forced a rethink in how organisations develop and deploy their defence strategies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Legislators haven’t seriously considered measures to discourage drinking, and voters expanded access to alcohol in grocery stores. Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

In this Part 3, after briefly reviewing the analytical framework and policy underpinnings developed in Parts 1 and 2, I lay out recommendations designed to fit the complex economics of the MH marketplace. This effort will also require effective targeting to attract the necessary legislative support for new zoning to be adopted.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Post-Helene, there is not a moratorium on summary ejectment proceedings, although activists and at least two legislators have called upon the legislature, the chief justice, and the governor for such action. There is no case law interpreting G.S. 42-12 to guide judicial officials on its enforcement.

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