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Spotlighting true public servants during Public Service Recognition Week: Part 2

Partnership for Public Service

To celebrate the invaluable contributions of public servants, I embarked on a journey to delve into the experiences, challenges and triumphs of four people making a difference in local government and the federal workforce. Below, I profile two of these individuals. Read our previous blog post to learn about the others.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too.

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Getting started: What any municipality can do now about EPA’s PFAS ruling for water systems

American City & Country

A funding roadmap While funding for water systems to better understand how to achieve compliance with recent EPA PFAS regulations is available, time is of the essence. Many local governments lack the resources in expertise, tools and personnel to comply with EPA’s 2024 PFAS drinking water standard.

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How NRCan used an AWS open source solution to complete a PBMM evidence package in 60 days

AWS Public Sector Blog

Attaining an ATO enables NRCan to meet demanding legislative requirements and more rapidly push applications into production by focusing on application-specific security controls, without compromising security. Running government workloads securely at the edge. How Rockdale County improved operations and security with the cloud.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Growth vs. shrinking | young vs. old | urban vs. suburban | historic preservation vs. limited building regulation. And I have this "enlightenment-age" idea that we are capable of learning, of having discourse.

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Is the Growth Machine a casualty of the culture wars?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Growth Machine thesis from urban sociology is focused on local government, and how political and economic elites, despite seemingly intra-elite competition, are united on a real estate focused pro-growth agenda, since real estate development is the primary source of revenue and economic activity for local governments. "

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The borrower of a conventional mortgage benefits tremendously from the evolution of the TBA market, which was not centrally planned or created by legislation but evolved over several decades as a collaboration between government mortgage agencies and the bond trading and investing community. ” [link]. [26] That is incorrect.

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