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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Cheow Hoe Chan is the government chief digital technology officer (GCDTO) of the SNDGG.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, if these costs reflect distorted markets where normal price competition has been subverted, then it is absolutely appropriate and reasonable for the government to intervene and improve the situation. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This is in addition to the fee sometimes varying by product type (e.g.,

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Philadelphia 76ers ," 2023 ). There is no public funding to commit to another project.” People at the forum said the discussion needed to move off an arena-or-nothing dynamic.