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Housing Affordability & Income Disparities: A Close Look at Palm Springs

Policy Chats

In this episode, Mayor of Palm Springs Grace Garner talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about housing afforability, income disparities, and gentrification in the context of Palm Springs. Learn more about the series and other episodes via [link].

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Mayor Grace Garner: Housing Affordability & Income Disparities in Palm Springs

Policy Chats

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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Re-imagining the future of mobility on islands

AWS Public Sector Blog

For example, a Finish maritime startup is providing a shipping company in the Aland Islands with a real-time cloud platform to operate their fleets more efficiently, including real-time open weather data, engine performance, humidity, and motion. The service provider has been able to scale significantly now operating in over 3,500 cities.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.

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What's Next for Evidence-Based Policy Making?

Barrett & Greene

By Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, , The People Lab. ​ ​ The crises of the past few years have brought with them a rallying cry for more evidence in government; a call to “follow the science” and “lead with data.”

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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)

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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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

He has a master’s degree in public policy from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from Colby College. Benjamin is a licensed attorney, with nearly twenty years of experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and as in-house GovTech counsel. Ben lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, son, and dog Sophie.