A dispute over Amtrak funding derailed a vote on THUD
GCN
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The House GOP’s Transportation and Housing and Urban Development funding bill would cut $8 billion from the departments. But that’s not what scuttled the vote.
Tennessee House votes to arm teachers despite opposition
GCN
APRIL 24, 2024
In spite of protesters, a bill that would allow teachers to carry a gun goes to governor for signature.
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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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Congress averts shutdown for third time in four months
GCN
JANUARY 18, 2024
A short-term spending deal was passed on a bipartisan vote in both the House and Senate. But, as some hoped, it does not provide additional funding for two critical programs helping low-income Americans.
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Congress Votes to Keep Federal Government Open; Sets New March Deadline for FY2024 Spending Bills
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 19, 2024
This week, a new short-term federal spending bill passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support. The new Continuing Resolution will keep the federal government open and operating through February and gives Congress new deadlines in March for passing the 12 annual federal appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024.
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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy
Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.
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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs
Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 25, 2022
In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.
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Senate passes stopgap measure to avert government shutdown
GCN
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The chamber approved the same “laddered” spending bill as the House in a 87-11 bipartisan vote.
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Austin will now allow more homes to be built on single-family lots
GCN
DECEMBER 8, 2023
City officials hope that allowing up to three units per lot will increase supply and slow the explosive increase in housing costs. The measure was approved by Austin City Council in a 9-2 vote late Thursday night.
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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).
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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.
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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy
Iron Sharpens Iron
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Amidst a season of tragedy surrounding affordable housing during the harshest weather season of the year, Andy talks about what has caused our affordable housing crisis, the pros and cons of Accessory Dwelling Units, and some of the housing victories we have seen locally.
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Episode 234: Why C-SPAN is having a moment
FedHeads
JANUARY 16, 2023
Did you see the House Speaker vote on C-SPAN? FedHeads Robert Shea and co-host Partnership for Public Service's Loren DeJonge Schulman grilled C-SPAN Communications Director Howard Mortman about how C-SPAN cameras got to the House floor and whether they'll remain. Did you see the House Speaker vote on C-SPAN?
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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 ?
Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government
Partnership for Public Service
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. However, the bills they drafted are vastly different. What about a continuing resolution?
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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists
Partnership for Public Service
MAY 10, 2024
White House Cabinet Secretary Evan Ryan delivered special remarks. The finalists also visited the White House later in the day. On Thursday, May 9, this year’s nominees gathered at the Partnership headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., to be acknowledged for their tremendous work. You can read more about this year’s nominees here.
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Good quote on arenas and stadiums as "performing arts centers" attractions for cities
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 5, 2024
Plus the NFL team wants a new stadium and Mayor Bowser of DC would like to waste money attracting them back to DC (" House passes bipartisan bill to let D.C. redevelop RFK Stadium site ," Washington Post ). I'm not sure I agree. The AAC cost $420 million to build, and it opened in October of 2001. Thirty years and she’s done.”
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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.
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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City
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. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit.
Univ. of Pittsburgh Athletics use AWS to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 6, 2024
In 1914, they fielded a women’s varsity basketball team, six years before women had the right to vote. “We The new business insights have allowed them to transition their sales roles in-house, saving money even after bringing on additional analytics talent.
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Toronto Star "Can't We Do Better" series: Rampant Municipal Management Failure #3
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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America is at a crossroads with its infrastructure future
American City & Country
AUGUST 23, 2024
Not only were the votes bipartisan, but even those who may not have been supportive in the past are now seeing the positive impacts on their constituents and their communities. The Senate passed its bill by unanimous consent in August, and the House passed its version in July.
Community building versus economic development
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.
Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 12, 2023
"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.
Celebrating the 2022 Sammies honorees
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. The Safety, Security and International Affairs Medal went to Hilary Ingraham, Holly Herrera, Kiera Berdinner and the Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement Team.
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House passes spending bills in bipartisan vote
GCN
MARCH 6, 2024
While the bills fund WIC and rental assistance, they slash funding the Biden administration’s tech and innovation hubs initiative. The package now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass.
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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. labor force of 168 million.
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Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends
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.
Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022
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.
Three Things for Local Leaders to Know About the House-Passed Energy Bill
NLC (National League of Cities)
APRIL 11, 2023
House of Representatives passed the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R The bill passed with bipartisan support by a vote of 225-204. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) joined the majority of Democrats to vote no and Reps. On March 30, the U.S. 1), which aims to increase domestic energy production and reform the permitting process.
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Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JULY 19, 2016
The Mayor’s Task Force on housing, they just reached out to so many more sectors of the public and. Council members voted unanimously to approve the revised strategic plan and corporate business plan. “I’m mindful of our task forces. the task force on mature neighbourhoods.
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
I am not sure it passed, because there is a vote in August on a property tax levy for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Also see " As millage vote looms, lawmaker and DIA spar over finances " from the Detroit Free Press. That bill is before the House for final approval next week. mills to help pay for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Fresh Blogging: The Top 50 Clean Air Advocacy Blogs
Masters in Public Administration
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
IDEM – Clean Air Tip This site goes beyond the usual and shows you how to reduce your pollution contribution at the office and around the house. Clean Energy Fuels One of the last ways we vote is with our dollar, so learn about the companies that run their delivery trucks using clean fuels.
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Poverty & Policy
MAY 12, 2017
So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill. The House bill would eliminate the CFC program in 2020, cutting an estimated $12 billion in federal Medicaid funding in the first six years.
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Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding
The Lowe Down
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Rises in inequality do not seem to cause backsliding.
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What I’m Pondering This Father’s Day: Memoirs by Some Notable Black Authors
Poverty & Policy
JUNE 17, 2017
The line is one Williams discovered — that he looked white and thought he was, partly because his black father passed as Italian until chronic financial, booze-fueled recklessness brought him to seek housing with his unmistakably black mother. I convert them into unspoken words — from raw memory to memoir snippets.
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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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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 5, 2024
After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. The event features more than 250 artists offering varied fare, from glass and metalwork, to pottery and textiles, jewelry and toys!
Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 4, 2024
From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Washington, DC paints a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the road to the White House ," CNN Developing policies for response in advance of such controversies is advised. presidential election. Monuments that are controversial.
Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.
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Cataclysm versus hope: a note on the US Presidential election
Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
But more people turned out for over 100 years to vote and didn’t take to the streets and spill blood – although there’s been too much of that too of course. The fact that 70 million and more Americans felt moved to give their vote to the former President is not a fact to be tossed lightly into the bonfire of ridicule and disgust.
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One Safety Net Time Limit Down, More Sweeping Limits in View
Poverty & Policy
JUNE 12, 2017
The Council’s unanimous vote for a policy more protective than what the Mayor originally proposed is maybe the biggest high point of this budget season. The House Republican Study Group tried to get the program block granted in 2012. It’s not the first effort to cut SSI funding.
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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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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People
Poverty & Policy
MAY 26, 2017
Safe, stable housing that leaves enough income to help pay for other needs. The Trump budget would deny affordable housing to more than 250,000 of the country’s lowest-income individuals and families who could otherwise have vouchers to cover all but 30% of their income for rent.
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