Congress finally approves spending budget, nearly six months late
GCN
MARCH 23, 2024
The vote in the House and Senate averts a shutdown and brings funding certainty. But several programs significant to state and local governments saw cuts.
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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. “This is a moment of ferment—and experimentation—in land use policy,” writes Noah M. .”
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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing
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 ?
Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
Since 2003 the city has been growing--even with the recent hiccup of the recession + a slowing and braking on urban growth because of some shrinkage of the activity of federal government, especially in terms of leased office space and personnel. Our house is detached, and five miles from Downtown (but 3/4 mile from a Metrorail station).
Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends
Social Pinpoint
JANUARY 24, 2024
This was a great way to get younger members of the community engaged in what local government does at an early age and a good example of the value of hybrid engagement. Now a popular tool, Fund It is certainly seeing more use in local government budgeting processes.
Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 19, 2023
This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions.
Gerrymandering in Utah
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 24, 2022
Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. If districts were organized fairly there would be one Democratic Party represented House district in Utah. And the Governor says when progressives complain, "Vote." Gerrymandering is even worse than before.
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