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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.

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The Use of Housing Choice Vouchers in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

By 2020, the median renter household’s income was more than 4 times that of the median voucher holder. The share of HCV heads of households that are younger than 50 years old declined nearly 18 percentage points between 2010 and 2020, a drop that was three times larger than for renters overall.

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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

This helps to inform emergency responders, and they can be configured specifically to suit the needs of different emergency services in different countries. Between 1980 and 2020, natural disasters affected nearly 50 million people in the EU and cost EU governments approximately 12 billion euros yearly.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

LULC datasets like this provide users with the ability to measure changes over time and inform critical decision makers in governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), finance, and industry who need trustworthy, actionable information about the changing world. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

As the central university library of ETH Zurich , the ETH Library facilitates access of its data with information from other areas of society and knowledge. The ETH Library API Team can be contacted for questions and further information at api@library.ethz.ch. The exchange of data and knowledge on the internet has become commonplace.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

As the central university library of ETH Zurich , the ETH Library facilitates access of its data with information from other areas of society and knowledge. The ETH Library API Team can be contacted for questions and further information at api@library.ethz.ch. The exchange of data and knowledge on the internet has become commonplace.