Remove 2008 Remove 2018 Remove 2021 Remove Government
article thumbnail

Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. Still, 50% of transactions were completed in less than 15 minutes, according to the bureau’s 2021 annual report (the most recent report available). Residents have noticed.

2021 98
article thumbnail

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

2010 91
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2021 ; Gubits et al. This is particularly pertinent to formerly incarcerated people and young people aging out of the foster care system, where housing needs are foreseeable and obstacles are predictable ( Schneider 2018 ; Dworsky et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g.,

Housing 52
article thumbnail

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.

article thumbnail

Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. And the State governments can vary wildly on their support.

article thumbnail

Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

article thumbnail

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

million people were displaced from their homes, but the earthquake destroyed more than people and their homes: it dealt a near fatal blow to government. of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2

2010 69