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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

In 2023, Michigan land banks mark two important milestones: 20 years since the passage of Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act and incorporation of the 50th land bank in the state. With foreclosure and abandonment often affecting marginalized and historically redlined areas, our work should be inclusive and equitable moving forward.”

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

that it deployed in the AWS Cloud in 2023. post-2008 deforestation). s geospatial big data analyses provide detailed diagnoses of each rural property’s environmental compliance in relation to Brazil’s Forest Code , the applicable Brazilian regulation governing conservation of the rain forest. You don’t do anything alone.

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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

I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.