AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The framework consists of questions, design principles, and best practices across the six pillars: Operational Excellence , Security , Reliability , Performance Efficiency , Cost Optimization , and Sustainability. Customers should consider including this section when reviewing government services to assist in achieving appropriate outcomes.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 25, 2025

All sectors require comprehensive digital transformation, from aviation and energy to transport and public services, to enhance efficiency, security, and sustainability. Future-Ready Solutions: We develop systems that work today and for tomorrow, ensuring long-term resilience, security, and adaptability in an ever-changing digital landscape.

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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. Reducing Market Barriers to Sustainable Farm/Food Businesses: A Business/Consumer Perspective . This program targets both economic development and community development. Historically, perhaps not as much.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 7, 2024

As New York City faces its worst housing crisis in over 50 years, policymakers are looking to connect affordable housing developers with a range of institutional stakeholders from hospitals to faith-based organizations to find ways to increase the supply of homes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 24, 2024

As New York City grapples with its most severe housing shortage in over half a century, state and local policymakers are actively seeking a range of ways to promote housing development using institutionally-owned land, including Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs). As the following figure shows, the predominant site type is much smaller.

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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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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Davis, John E. Decker, Andrew.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s easy to picture emissions from a factory or car but much less intuitive when it comes to someone developing software on their laptop. This goal is meant to be a building block towards reaching climate neutrality by 2050 , that is, reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 100% from 1990 levels, in tandem with European Climate Law.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 25, 2023

It also examines the current land use in those neighborhoods and analyzes changes in new housing development over the last decade. This year’s Focus report explores the demographics of households in New York City’s low-density neighborhoods, including a closer look at renter and owner households.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Even if you feel called to public service, it can be a challenge to find meaning in the day-to-day work and sustain it as you advance. Particularly in the regulatory space, your ability to interpret and enforce the law is a fundamental underpinning of government. You can’t beat the mission orientation.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The 700 public sector HR professionals and job seekers who were surveyed also note that law enforcement is one of the hardest areas to fill. The new system automates routine tasks and customizable workflows, providing HR professionals with more time to focus on strategic initiatives and employee development.

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AccessE11

JANUARY 2, 2024

Laws, technology, and citizen demands ensure that their municipalities continue to keep their finger on the pulse of progress. The most significant development in city governments is the application of generative AI. They will also improve infrastructure management and aid in sustainable city development.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 5, 2024

He holds a Juris Doctorate from the Widener University Law School, Wilmington, Del. 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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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 2, 2023

The workbook provides users with a flexible process to consider climate change information and to develop climate adaptation management plans that align with current land management objectives. Users can filter resources by popularity; science; plans and planning guides; law and regulation; funding; and case studies.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” The affordable housing specialists in the School’s Development Finance Initiative (DFI) regularly assist local governments with these preliminary steps.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 26, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled that by allowing the County to keep the surplus from the property sale, Minnesota law violates the “takings clause” of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. This authority provides taxpayers an opportunity to steer that property toward a more equitable, sustainable outcome aligned with community priorities.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 8, 2023

From there it became clear that building and sustaining trust takes both intention and connection. Figuring out where to start felt overwhelming at times, but we discussed actions the organization could take to build and sustain community trust. Further, we needed to develop clear expectations for how the input would be used.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. It is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 3, 2024

City officials, working alongside cybersecurity experts and law enforcement, were able to restore some services by the end of August, but the road to full recovery was long. Municipal leaders may worry about the sustainability of these expenses, particularly if funding is an issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This was the only working repair stand and air pump on the stretch of the trail I rode, probably because it was both newer and sponsored by a law firm. And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. And bike repair stands and air pumps--although most were broken.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 7, 2023

At a time when many federal agencies are working to implement historic federal measures, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the American Rescue Plan , the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act , it is critical that federal employees build strong and sustainable relationships with the individuals and communities they serve.

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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In many modern cities, the development of a collective consciousness is hampered by the problems of urban living: expensive, sub-standard housing, which is in short supply; exploitation through poor, badly remunerated working conditions; pollution, overcrowding, and so on. The DRR community has to be created, not discovered.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 15, 2020

Since the stand-on-your-own-two-feet privations of the Second World War, there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from personal respomsability in favour of leaving the work to officialdom–and blaming officialdom when there are shortcomings in its response. The antidote is marshall law. That is a sobering lesson.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

This blog follows clean energy news and discusses developments and laws on the topic. Clean Tech For the techie who is also green, this site keeps track of all of the major developments that marry both worlds. Clean Air Canada This is the Canadian site for clean air advocacy and goes into law and policy for the country.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Landlords whose properties sustained substantial damage due to Helene may want to reach out to tenants to discuss ways to resolve the situation without resorting to legal action. There is no case law interpreting G.S. Judicial officials should review leases carefully for such casualty provisions. Potential Out-of-Court Resolutions.

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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. High-Level Recommendations and Reasoning Drive sustained policy change through an interagency committee.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Managing security and compliance requirements, especially as laws and reporting mandates evolve, can be complex, tedious, and expensive. Cloud-based technologies can also help agencies in their sustainability-related objectives. Efforts should be integrated across on-premises and cloud environments.

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ResourceAssociates

AUGUST 17, 2020

45 CFR 75.113 – Disclosures re: Violations of Criminal Law. Rachel brings over 25 years’ experience in nonprofit excellence, program development, training, evaluation, and grant project management to Resource Associates’ Outreach Team. She also specializes in sustainability. All Standing Executive Orders.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. 5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Sustainability is becoming a priority topic across public sector organizations. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers and education industry experts highlighted earlier this year in the “ Innovation drivers in higher education ” report, student demand for comprehensive sustainability strategies is a key factor in driving this change.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 What’s next?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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