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Improve Your Grant Success with the Help of Elected Officials

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

But as I moved into work with nonprofits, I realized that outside of local governments, many organizations do not take advantage of the assistance provided by their elected officials. To get the details of how to best lean into working with elected officials, check out the latest episode of Fundraising HayDay.

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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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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ). From the article: The U.S.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. DC's core is comprised of rowhouses and apartment buildings, while the outer city is a mix of attached and detached single family housing and clusters of apartments, especially on arterials. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. I was involved in opposing the Walmart that ended up being built up the street from my house -- and ironically a second Walmart was built 1.25 To Open Dec. Nor did a store on East Capitol.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

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 ?