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

MAY 16, 2022

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 ?

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

A significant benefit of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) for North Carolina CED professionals is the availability of funding for investment in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure though the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRS). Where and how is that local government money being invested?

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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. As was reported in 2021, residents and local institutions are still the most frequent recipients of land bank properties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Elections and sustainable trucking: The Fix This podcast March round up. Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and non-aligned organization that provides election campaigns access to cybersecurity products, services, and information, regardless of party affiliation.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 26, 2023

Indeed, most local governments report that almost all owners pay their property taxes on time. In our decade of work to help local governments and advocates address widespread vacant and abandoned properties , we’ve seen the impact of property tax foreclosure across the country.

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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. TB: Currently no local land bank in West Virginia has a dedicated full-time staff.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. Root Causes. 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

Reducing Market Barriers to Sustainable Farm/Food Businesses: A Business/Consumer Perspective . Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

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The City Fix

JULY 5, 2024

Every three years, ICLEI hosts the ICLEI World Congress to showcase how subnational actors advance sustainable urban development worldwide. The most recent installment, ICLEI World Congress 2024, held June 18-21 in São Paulo, Brazil, converged over 1,500 global attendees to.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016).

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (which is really more about climate than inflation) this is an important moment for local governments to take advantage of the opportunities of the day to preserve clean air and water for generations to come. Four Paths To Change. ?.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

If you work in local government or in a special district, you probably already have an intranet, but you may not have any control over this at all. The key is to find a method that is sustainable over the long term – meaning it is easy to update and make changes. ” Why does the terminology matter?

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The City Fix

JUNE 5, 2023

In March 2023, the White House announced its federal budget, including funding for a groundbreaking initiative: the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP). The program is unlike anything the U.S. has supported in the past as it will provide matching.

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GovLoop

APRIL 29, 2024

Here’s what May has to offer: Zero Trust at the State and Local Level Many state and local agencies are turning to zero trust to beef up their security architectures. PT to hear from state and local government leaders about how to implement zero-trust principles. Join us online Wednesday, May 8 from 2-2:50 p.m.

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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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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

Deadline to Apply March 31, 2022

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1." Transit marketing for tourism.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

The plan focused on action steps and funding approaches that could be taken by local government entities and partners. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME program, professional code enforcement staff, and powers of eminent domain through its Redevelopment Authority.

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The complex had air regeneration and water supply systems together with food and fuel supplies, and it could sustain as many as 3,000 people for three months in the event of a nuclear attack. Indeed, according to local government officials, there are around 2,000 in the Xuhui district of Shanghai alone. Image Source.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But it is also a management failure of local government. Admittedly, oversight-wise, WMATA has a hard slog, as the State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and DC are "co-owners" now alongside the federal government. They all have to agree on major decisions. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 7, 2022

That is not good government,” said Eldridge, who today is Senior Director of State and Local Government Strategy Leader at DocuSign, speaking during a recent GovLoop online training titled “How to Fix Slow and Inefficient Processes at Your Agency.”. That is not efficient. That’s unacceptable,” Eldridge said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); commitment and time.

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The City Fix

MAY 2, 2023

India is projected to overtake China as the most populous country in the world this year. The shifting demographics are bound to create heightened demand for education, health care, jobs and civic amenities, putting existing systems under stress. Current urban.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amid the vast Amazon River delta, Belém, Brazil, sits at the intersection of the urban and natural worlds. A network of waterways and islands home to resources like açaí and cacao surround the city, serving as a critical port for.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since COP27 wound down late last year (November 6-18), much of the post event commentary has centered on the fact that as observed by The Conversation, the gathering “failed to go beyond the 2021 Glasgow climate pact’s promise to phase down.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The CFE Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; our programmatic, research and policy efforts focus on designing, embedding and replicating financial empowerment initiatives within the fabric of local government. CRA Partners is a turnkey CRA compliance program powered by the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A Playbook for Minting the New Chief AI Officer According to the White House Executive Order on AI , every federal agency will need to fill the role of Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) by the end of this year. state and local government and education (SLED) initiatives.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Interestingly, the local high school newspaper gets it even if elected officials and automobile dependent folks do not, " MOVE Culver City: Rethinking Urban Mobility in the Heart of Screenland ," Culver City High Centaurian. US Department of Transportation backs down on sustainable mobility/Complete Streets programming.

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