Policy Chats

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Previously, she has served as a board member of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry, was the Chief Operating Officer at Americans for Financial Reform, and was an Attorney Case Manager at White & Case LLP. So if we can get that down to a more reasonable rent based on a person's income, then that would help a lot.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Projects relying on the 421-a completion extension in tandem with Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) are expected to deliver both more housing and deeper affordability to several neighborhoods across the city, according to a recent data analysis by the NYU Furman Center.

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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. Federal Reserve System was signed into law in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Together, they work to promote the effective operation of the U.S. Rural NC house in need of repair.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. And the development doesn't look like it's affordable housing.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

An in-house LED display provides customers with a virtual dressing room to mix and match different clothing options. Managing VR and AR devices requires keeping the operating system, firmware, and applications up-to-date. Finally, data privacy laws must always be adhered to when gathering user information or device usage.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 5, 2024

Josh oversees the integration and delivery of international operations, medical teams, security, and a global assistance network in the Philadelphia Assistance Center, one of 26 around the world. 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 8, 2022

A couple decades ago I saw a presentation at the National Building Museum by Camilo José Vergara , who specializes in photographing urban decay, showing photos of Los Angeles, including what he called "micro-fortification" of housings around pipes and stuff. He was very critical, arguing it demonstrated a grim, anti-people approach.

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Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some diversification is going to be required if your organization depends on grant funding because funders typically cap the amount of money that can go toward general operating expenses. its general operating expenses). The question is, can all nonprofits successfully pursue diversification?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. Other groups operate in this space too. As a preservationist, I prefer not to tear down buildings.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the past few years, there have been several bills, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), that have significantly increased the federal share of infrastructure funding for the first time in decades.

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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. Housing-Related Exemptions Builders inventory ( G.S. Low- & moderate-income housing ( G.S. Brownfields ( G.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In the past I've discussed this in terms of remedies.

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Government Technology Insider

JUNE 13, 2024

Agency leaders are both optimistic and cautious about AI’s impact on their organizations: AI solutions can streamline agency operations and enhance human capabilities but implementing them adds myriad considerations to agency IT modernization strategies. However, complying with these laws is complex.

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GovLoop

MARCH 25, 2024

The Compliance, Governance, and Operations (CGO) Legal Team took advantage of Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI service, to create training materials ranging from a logo to video scripts. Looking to bring things in house and lower costs, CGO used AI to write the training scripts. It’s been pretty fast, and great quality.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Given the limitations on local property tax solutions, some neighborhood affordable housing organizations have encouraged the General Assembly to expand the Machinery Act’s existing property tax exemptions for homeowners. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority. Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said that UnitedHealth’s handling of the cyberattack will probably be “a case study in crisis mismanagement for decades to come.” location, device, behaviour) and adjusts the authentication requirements accordingly.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

City managers are public administrators who try to make city governments operate with the efficiency of successful businesses. A few of the current available options include with non-profits, government organizations, and even law. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction The United States is in the midst of a severe shortage of affordable housing for low-and-middle-income (LMI) families as both home prices and rents have climbed faster than household income for many years, particularly during the pandemic. with a much higher market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with new findings as of October 2024 from WRI’s Electric School Bus Data Dashboard, which is updated monthly and contains the most recent data on electric school bus adoption. Previous versions of this article are.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition to housing issues, many tenants have been left unemployed either temporarily or permanently due to damage or destruction of businesses. Such assistance is in part meant to deter further displacement and loss of housing following a natural disaster. The rental of residential housing is an act that affects commerce.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A CDL is a capability to assimilate and house vast quantities of security data, whether in its raw form or as derivatives of original logs. By enabling advanced analytics and efficient data processing, they reduce the time and resources needed for data analysis, further cutting operational costs.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. COBRA, the national 'nerve centre' for directing major emergency actions in the UK, is a relatively small entity that does not match up to the specifications of a well-endowed national emergency operations centre.

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GovLoop

MARCH 14, 2024

The order calls for guidelines in specific areas of government concern, including national security, intelligence, defense, justice and law enforcement, energy, health care, and transportation. AI could improve government operations and services, but it also poses risks. For instance, the EO states that within 45 days of its Oct.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 13, 2023

Changing behaviours such as these have influenced how attackers operate. At the same time, Utah and Connecticut will introduce new data laws this year. It is here that MSSPs and MDRs can have the greatest impact, acting as an expert extension of the in-house security team.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

AI is transforming federal government operations by enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, allowing the workforce to do more with less, and empowering employees to focus on creative tasks while reducing repetitive work. This setup promotes iterative testing of AI models, leading to more robust and dependable AI deployments.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As an OPM Associate Director, Peter recently worked with the federal agencies tasked with hiring the talent needed to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. She is originally from New York City but is happily adapting to life at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s San Francisco hub.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

PT to hear government and industry leaders discuss machine learning basics and how they can reshape the way agencies operate. 6 Ways to Support Work From Anywhere The White House recently asked agencies to revisit their telework policies and bring more employees back into the office, at least part-time, to help enhance collaboration.

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The CIO Council

JANUARY 14, 2025

Compared to 2023, Federal agencies have more than doubled their AI use in the last year, citing improvements to operational efficiency and the execution of their missions as key drivers for increased utilization. Approximately 50% of all reported AI use cases are developed in-house, illustrating Federal agencies capacity for innovation.

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