Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 20, 2022

-- " Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence " -- " Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority) " The Toronto Star is running a series of articles in advance of the Mayor and City Council election this, Monday October 24th, called " Can't We Do Better? "

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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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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 10, 2024

Management Excellence – recognizing a federal employee or team for delivering results through superior leadership and exceptional management skills. White House Cabinet Secretary Evan Ryan delivered special remarks. The finalists also visited the White House later in the day. to be acknowledged for their tremendous work.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

The process will provide valuable information that supports decision-making by directors and managers, enabling them to allocate or reallocate resources, based on each program or resource request’s alignment to strategic and corporate priorities. I’m mindful of our task forces. the task force on mature neighbourhoods.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s also often used in funding community projects; for example, participatory budgeting and tradeoff exercises can be used to engage the public in choosing everything from building elements of playgrounds and dog parks, to voting on the final designs for public art and mural projects.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?): It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections. This letter to the editor (" The D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1993, and explaining the decline of public facilities and spaces in New York City, it made the point that instead of addressing the nuisance/noxious/criminal activities and consequences, instead deviance was redefined, redefinition once anti-community acts as acceptable.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). O’Hara (2010, p.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

history, providing housing and services in record time to more than 72,000 people who fled from Afghanistan in 2021 as American military forces withdrew from the country. Management Excellence Medal: Barbara C. This year’s Management Excellence Medal was presented to Barbara C. Morton, Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

Over the last decade, Sydneys cultural infrastructure has shrunk by the equivalent of three Sydney Opera Houses, Lord Mayor Clover Moore will tell cultural leaders. The council identified the need to help the missing middle in its updated cultural strategy that is to be voted on by councillors on June 24.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. When a city feels safe enough that a woman jogs along, alone, at dusk.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The possibility of a GSE conservatorship exit has sparked considerable media attention, particularly in housing and mortgage industry circles. Is the not-yet-nominated director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) the key to conservatorship exit? Separately, Trump II has the ability to directly reshape GSE mortgage policies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 13, 2025

Moving agencies and firing employees reduces the demand for office space and housing in DC proper. A vote that would have eliminated the Department of Education failed to garner the needed 60 votes to pass in the Senate in 2023. I'd say yes. He would need congressional approval in order to shut down an agency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Programming tends to be provided in parks and public spaces that are managed by conservancies or business improvements districts--organizations that have separate funding sources, and with the luxury of only managing a few spaces, not many dozens. Types of programs. Music and cinema are probably the most common. presidential election.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Programming tends to be provided in parks and public spaces that are managed by conservancies or business improvements districts--organizations that have separate funding sources, and with the luxury of only managing a few spaces, not many dozens. After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Whether the parties controlling the Senate and the White House are the same or different has not been the main factor. The Office of Personnel Management has been missing an official deputy director for nearly two years. In some instances, confirmation times when the same party controlled the Senate and White House have been shorter.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2025

But the White House cannot erase energy market realities by presidential fiat. Increased cutting of trees in US Forest Service lands (" USDA Opens 59% of Federal Forest for Logging to Manage Fire Risk ," Bloomberg). Plus defunding them. Plus cutting science projects 7.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In doing so, it presumably has found, or will soon find, that it has the authority to directly manage the GSEs, unlike during its first term (Trump I). The necessary background: Why, how, what, who and when Why does the President have the ability to manage the GSEs? How does this authority work? It takes two simple steps.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

Some Republicans may balk at some details, but the major thrusts replicate those in budgets the House has passed ever since Republicans gained control in 2010. If the House and Senate can then agree on a resolution, the actual spending and/or tax cuts need only a majority vote in the Senate.

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