Colorado becomes first state with sweeping artificial intelligence regulations
GCN
MAY 21, 2024
The law attempts to mitigate algorithmic discrimination in AI systems that make consequential decisions related to hiring, banking and housing.
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Maximizing Underused Hospital-Owned Land for Affordable Housing
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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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED. Behind the headline are a host of issues that both foster hope in how to address affordable housing needs and the realization of the many steps it may take to get there. Manufactured homes are a statewide feature of North Carolina – we have more than almost any other state.
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Local Conduit Issuances of Affordable Housing Bonds in North Carolina: The Basics
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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Institutional Owned Land and New York City’s Housing Crisis: The Extent of Faith-Based Owned Land Ownership
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). Land owned by FBOs consists of more than just houses of worship.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Hotel-to-Housing Conversions in NYC
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JUNE 11, 2021
After the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the hotel industry in New York City, policymakers considered whether to promote the reuse of distressed hotel buildings as housing. In a new white paper , the NYU Furman Center’s Noah Kazis details essential background information on the matter of hotel-to-housing conversions.
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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act
GovLoop
JULY 26, 2024
The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S. The passage of the ADA was preceded by years of activism and advocacy-group efforts.
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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
New York City zoning laws require minimum off-street parking in many areas, which often results in an oversupply of parking spaces where market demand for off-street parking is relatively low. These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing.
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Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act: An Initial Analysis of Short-Term Trends
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 17, 2021
The NYU Furman Center analyzed several housing indicators to gain deeper insight into the initial impacts of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA). For these reasons, some argued prior to the law’s passage that the HSTPA would negatively impact building values in the short- and long-term.
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Enhancing Federal AI Safety: Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox
Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 29, 2024
AI Executive Orders, Laws, and Regulations In recent years, several laws and executive orders have been enacted to govern the use of AI across various sectors in the United States, ensuring that its deployment is ethical, secure, and compliant with existing regulations.
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How Can Agencies Mitigate Risks of Using AI?
GovLoop
OCTOBER 10, 2023
A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence. And the overwhelmingly bipartisan law established a new working group charged with adopting a Connecticut-specific AI bill of rights based on a White House AI Bill of Rights blueprint. Beginning on Dec.
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Decision Intelligence: Data Privacy
GovLoop
APRIL 21, 2023
They can be very helpful: Using artificial intelligence (AI), ADM systems assist or replace human efforts to make potentially life-altering decisions related to public benefits, policing, housing, health care, immigration, education, emergency response, child welfare and other concerns. According to a recent survey, 70% of U.S.
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Home Study and Post-Release Services for Unaccompanied Children
iGrantWriters
JUNE 7, 2023
Some unaccompanied children are required by law to receive a HS, while others may be subject to ORR policies or discretionary funding. All funded entities must comply with ORR policies, the Flores Settlement Agreement, and relevant regulations and laws.
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What does equitable code enforcement look like? How Louisville is taking steps to use its code enforcement process to advance racial equity
Center for Community Progress
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
As executive administrator for the Louisville Metro Government’s (LMG) Codes and Regulations department, Crowe took pride in the fact that his department treated all properties with housing and building code violations the same, regardless of property owner, type, or neighborhood. The policy’s intent was to ensure fairness.
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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)
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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An Open Source Platform Helps Achieve Zero-Trust Security
GovLoop
AUGUST 26, 2024
To meet mission needs, federal agencies must interact with databases containing everything from personal records to geographical information to law enforcement data. It’s imperative that these databases comply with the White House zero-trust security mandate. said Jeremy Wilson, EDB’s CTO – North America Public Sector.
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Macrofortification
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.
3 lessons learned from the Change Healthcare ransomware attack
Open Access Government - Technology News
AUGUST 12, 2024
With this in mind, insurers and regulators must encourage businesses to: Educate users about the importance of MFA and other security measures and how to recognise sophisticated phishing and social engineering attempts. location, device, behaviour) and adjusts the authentication requirements accordingly.
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What is Code Enforcement?
Center for Community Progress
MARCH 6, 2024
Code enforcement” refers to the process local governments use to enforce state and local laws, codes, or ordinances pertaining to housing, building, or health standards. What is code enforcement? A sign with numerous code enforcement violations staked in the middle of an overgrown vacant lot.
Successful AI Adoption Strategies Focus on the Value Delivered to State and Local Governments
Government Technology Insider
JUNE 13, 2024
State and local governments hold large amounts of sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII), which is managed according to record series laws that govern how data should be protected and discarded. However, complying with these laws is complex.
How will the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme change in April 2023?
Open Access Government - Technology News
MARCH 13, 2023
Updates to the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme For this reason, cyber regulations have had to evolve. At the same time, Utah and Connecticut will introduce new data laws this year. With organisations already on the back foot and regulations only set to evolve further, this is a key challenge.
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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Regulatory compliance – Stringent regulations in areas such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the data privacy and breach laws applicable to government and nonprofit sectors may constrain the permissible use cases for generative AI.
A Vision for AI in Government: The AI-Savvy Agency
GovLoop
MARCH 14, 2024
The White House’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO) lays out a strategy focused on monitoring, regulating and staffing the development of AI-based innovations. AI could improve government operations and services, but it also poses risks.
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Microsoft Priva is generally available to GCC, GCC High and DoD
Microsoft Public Sector
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
For years, existing privacy regulations like the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have been paving the path for how g overnment organizations prioritize privacy. State Breach Notification Laws to make it easier to get started with policy deployment. Get started today.
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Revisiting Mott's Market corner store in Capitol Hill DC: residents buy the building after all
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 30, 2022
In the past I've discussed this in terms of remedies.
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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 15, 2022
Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court. These will each be explained in more detail below.
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What Tyler v. Hennepin County Means for the Future of Property Tax Foreclosure Systems Across the Country
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. Constitution. We will offer additional perspective and guidance in the coming weeks on how states should reevaluate or modify their property tax foreclosure process.
Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: High-Level and Specific Policy Recommendations (Part 3)
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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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation
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. As a result, many of these lots remain in municipal land banks for years. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.
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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future
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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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)
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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The Philosophy of the Federal Cyber Data Lake (CDL): A Thought Leadership Approach
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. This supports Zero Trust initiatives in Federal agencies and aligns with Federal cybersecurity regulations, data privacy laws, and current TLS encryption standards.
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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.
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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JUNE 10, 2024
Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S.
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After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina
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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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 29, 2024
Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)
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Policy Minute: Exclusionary Zoning
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JANUARY 27, 2022
Across the country, policymakers are dealing with the impact of exclusionary zoning practices that have created barriers to housing supply and restricted access to high-opportunity neighborhoods for low-income families. The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5 percent to 19.2
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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs
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.
Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Furman Center faculty directors Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Kathy O’Regan recently released “ Supply Skepticism Revisited ”, highlighting the latest rigorous research that draws out the nuanced effects housing supply has on housing affordability. 16 hosted at the NYU School of Law. .
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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.
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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2024
From the article: Among the plan’s wide-ranging proposals: recruiting more universities to fill up excess office space, simplifying regulations to attract new small and international businesses, and creating a “history triangle” between Farragut Square, Franklin Park and Lafayette Square that would draw visitors from the Mall.
How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 31, 2024
Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms. 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.
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What is government for?
Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company
JULY 22, 2021
That New Deal meant that the government would no longer work simply to promote business, but would regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure. and his brother-in-law L. All of this will take place while the House select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection will be holding hearings.
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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JULY 30, 2024
on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers” announcing that the GSEs had just been placed into conservatorship, in which he referenced “…the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure…” See [link]. Paulson, Jr.
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