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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation

AWS Public Sector Blog

However, government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofits face unique challenges in adopting and deploying generative AI. Through controlled trials and POCs, teams can identify and validate valuable use cases for AI assistance, recognize the technology’s current limitations, and set realistic expectations.

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Why Land Banks Matter

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are public entities with the unique authority under state law to acquire, manage, and transform problem properties, prioritizing community goals over profit. 31 of The Road Ahead ) 2.

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High fees, long waits cast shadow over new criminal expungement laws

GCN

A clear record helps people seeking employment, housing and education.

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Our Commitment to Code Enforcement: 2024 Recap

Center for Community Progress

Housing and building code enforcement is one of local governments most important tools to stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods. It also forms the foundation of other strategies to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties, including land banking.

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What is a land bank?

Center for Community Progress

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties.

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AWS announces low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns and committees

AWS Public Sector Blog

DDC works with technology companies to make their services available directly to eligible committees at low-to-no cost, as well as education and information sharing for campaign professionals.

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year.