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Governor Appoints CDT Deputy Director of Communications & Stakeholder Relations

California Department of Technology

Since 2021, Monica has served as Deputy Director of Communications at the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). September 27, 2023 – Monica Hernández has been appointed CDT’s new Deputy Director of Communications and Stakeholder Relations at the California. Her first day at CDT will be October 6.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Though not a government entity or body politic, the original Ohio land bank laws were designed to: 1) allow municipal land banks to acquire properties through tax foreclosure at no cost after being exposed to sale without bidders and 2) to hold these properties real estate tax exempt until the land could be repurposed.

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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

We researched and wrote about this issue in a 2021 report for UKG, called Employee Leave in the Public Sector: Current Challenges and Solutions. But first a little background: “No leave issue is more of a fiscal threat to governments than ‘Leave liability’,” we wrote in the UKG report. How many more is an open question.

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Building community, connection and commitment for African American federal executives

Partnership for Public Service

To mark Black History Month, I spoke with Tyra Dent, president of the African American Federal Executive Association, a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 that is dedicated to preparing and supporting African Americans for advancement into and within the senior ranks of the federal government.

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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. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 million units.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many municipal governments, once allies, have adopted aggressive not-in-my-backyard stances toward intercity buses, fueled by the perception that bus stations may be unsafe places that generate criminal activity. The federal government has made giving intercity bus lines “reasonable access” to these facilities a funding requirement.

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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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