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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? A signature initiative was the creation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, which was funded by a TIF bond.

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

PBB 2.0 – Launch of the PBB Community and the power of it’s users Evolution of the Master Plan: from “implementing PBB” to “using PBB data to make positive change” In 2008, Jon and I had one simple plan: bail out Jefferson County, Colorado from their multi-million dollar deficit. Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 This created further savings and operational resiliency for CSS.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We did this in 2008 or 2009. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements. Use spaces in an expanded Eastern Market campus, such as for a volunteer fair (" Community engagement #1: Capitol Hill Volunteer Fair this Saturday ," 2016).

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Salt Lake already has a best practice program called Livable Streets , and they are implementing it across the city.