AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

By leveraging AWS to develop the next generation of EdTech solutions, these startups aim to address education challenges such as student engagement, financial literacy, student health and well-being, upskilling, and operational inefficiencies. The platform houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships, and grants for students.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JANUARY 20, 2025

Department of Veterans Affairs Homeless Program Offices Principal Advisor, Intra/Inter-Agency Collaboration and Director of Community Engagement Anthony Love No veteran should be homeless in the country they swore an oath to defend. Authored by U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to Kirsty Murphy Hughes from daa, “We need everyone engaged and onboard, helping to drive sustainability throughout an organisation. Scope, scale and speed in sustainability is shocking but it is a massive opportunity.” Collaboration is key to obtain a truly sustainable world.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JANUARY 18, 2024

Written in collaboration with Gregory Kienzl, Director of Data and Impact, Office of Engagement and Community Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. In our nation’s cities, the lack of affordable housing continues to challenge local leaders. According to the 2023 Urban Institute study, there was a shortage of 7.3

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 28, 2022

The White House wants to make engaging with the government easier. How can agencies meet the challenge?

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Citizen Lab

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The post How to comply with the latest social housing regulations through an online community engagement platform appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog. This content is restricted in your region.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Today, with more than 800,000 resolved fan identities—on target for 1 million by the end of 2024—the department has a powerful tool for engaging and selling across the entire fan journey. Unifying data sources to gain a more complete picture of football fans Pitt knew they wanted to start with a project focused on enhancing fan engagement.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

Twenty-seven percent said that they would fully outsource their mainframe management, and 24 percent said that they would manage them in-house.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

These services include advocating for policy changes to create permanent open space, engaging with residents to ensure that conservation projects respond to community needs, and providing direct assistance to partners working to conserve vacant landwhether that is providing technical assistance, liability insurance coverage, or other support.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The efforts tracked with similar initiatives at other agencies, where new White House policies and an emphasis on digital-first services kicked off a focus on customer experience. So, there was this foundational common lexicon in communicating. I think that was a milestone itself.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Some time ago, I learned about how the LA Police Department in association with the Housing Authority, created what they called a community safety partnership, to put officers full time in high crime housing projects. Parks conservancies as more engaged parks managers. Engaging the community in positive activities is crucial.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 21, 2024

You just perfected the virtual meeting, and now you’re looking to combine new online best practices with traditional engagement methods. Then we’ll discuss big lessons learned and emerging trends in digital+ engagement. How does digital engagement bring in new voices and improve outcomes?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

This approach can be used by in-house technology leaders or jointly with outsourced service providers. The remediation approach will be different depending on how the legacy technology is run (in-house or outsourced).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. Department of Housing and Urban Development Homeless Assessment Report found that there were 582,462 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022. Clarity Human Services runs on AWS.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

North Carolina suffers from a lack of affordable housing options for low and moderate income households. In a May 2022 post , Tyler outlined many of the ways in which North Carolina’s local governments can aid the development of privately owned affordable housing.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As Colorado embarks on an aggressive program to build affordable housing, the state is turning to a website to engage and involve residents as the projects unfold.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

We were working against an ideology, one pervasive in our industry, that for data to be secure and accessible, it must be housed in on-premises servers that our IT staff could see and touch. Columbia CU’s philosophy is to provide the maximum value to our members and be the financial institution of choice for our community.

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Google recently commissioned IDC to conduct a study that surveyed 161 federal CAIOs, government AI leaders and other decision makers to understand how agency leaders are leading in this new AI era – and the value they are already bringing when it comes to AI governance, collaboration, and building public trust and citizen engagement¹.

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Security Public Sector Leadership Public Service 89

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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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 2, 2022

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, many communities are seeing an increase in higher-wage families purchasing new homes, while others facean increase in evictions and foreclosures and a growing deficit of quality affordable housing for vulnerable residents. Black communities are disproportionately affected by this crisis.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Housing Outreach Advocacy Engagement 98

Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Central to this strategy is advancing healthy, well-connected communities with ample access to high-quality employment opportunities, thriving small businesses, and of course, access to safe and affordable housing. That is why our team works to shift the narrative to change the way people and their families are housed.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 31, 2023

link] Zillow predicts Charlotte will be the nations’s hottest housing market in 2023: [link] DFI in the news: Salisbury NC engages UNC DFI for pre-development services for a brownfields site, the former Kesler Mill: [link] Watauga County engages UNC DFI for affordable housing pre-development assistance on County-owned land: bit.ly/3VEiarP

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. Increasingly, land banks have been called on to respond to growing housing affordability needs. Key Takeaways Affordable housing emerged as a top priority. 50 percent of land banks consider addressing more vacant lots a top priority.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 25, 2021

Code enforcement is a vital piece of effective housing policy, playing a role in both residents’ health and safety and in the cost of providing and maintaining housing. Housing and building codes vary in their relative focus on conditions at the individual unit or neighborhood level. Proactive and Reactive Enforcement.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A pipeline of skilled and accredited professionals can not only prevent the home repair process from lagging but can also enhance local engagement opportunities and provide career pathways for communities interested in home rehab work. A healthy and safe home can promote better physical and mental health and provide a pathway to success.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chris Spahr, Executive Director of the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation , defines affordable housing as housing that can be made available to anyone and everyone no matter their economic status. What is affordable housing? And what is affordable housing? De'Wayne Drummond 0:27 I got a question.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The house has a toilet and electricity, but the costs for both. Owusu lives with his wife and four children in the Tantra Hills neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, where he shares his residence with five other tenants and their families. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These two Banks are diving into issues such as housing affordability and the rural/urban divide in the Southeastern U.S. Concerns about affordable housing provide a wonderful example. Rural NC house in need of repair. with localized data and analysis and have valuable information NC CED professionals can use.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets. Community Progress has supported TCLB from the land bank’s inception and was recently engaged to lead the development of its 2023-27 Strategic Plan.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By Chris Adams, CEO of , Balancing Act , a creator of simulation-based online engagement tools. ? ?. ? The last few years have illustrated, on issues ranging from mask policies to housing, the power of a small number of energized but vocal participants to sway policy. Four Paths To Change. ?.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For nearly a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. The top four concerns that SMAs have shared are in approaching outreach and engagement, staffing shortages, returned mail, and reporting capabilities.

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Although tenant participation is becoming more common when it comes to planning social housing, the ability for tenants to influence their landlords remains considerably limited. One issue is that there simply isn’t enough affordable housing available. Social housing white paper in the UK. Social housing white paper in the UK.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s one of the great challenges for urban local governments facing population growth demands: how to plan for future housing needs without sparking general community opposition. The post How to Use Simulations in Housing Planning: Two Case Studies appeared first on Bang the Table. Host Region: Australia / New Zealand.

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