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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

Here is a look at the current threat landscape, based on recent cyber-related news and events. A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. The problem is not that technology always falls short.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Access to free legal services for low-income tenants facing eviction has expanded across many jurisdictions, with New York City as the first to enact universal access to counsel (UAC) in 2017. UAC began with the ELS program and, in August 2017, it was expanded to phase-in legal services for all income-qualified tenants facing eviction.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

If it seems like we are experiencing more community disasters and traumatic events than ever before, it is probably because we are. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities. Natural and man-made disasters and other adverse events put enormous strain on communities.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

I saw first-hand how communities are impacted by these types of events while living in Haiti in 2010,” shared Andrés Meira, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Grillo. Open data helps recovery in the aftermath of devastating weather events. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In this, I do not exaggerate, as the record of recent events in London demonstrates the connections quite clearly. There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Socialist (25 November 2010), p. It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.

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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

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. The Design Method The updated list. commitment and time.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

To commemorate this anniversary, I have compiled a ten-point Q&A to explain some of the history and key events of the two conservatorships, which reasonably lead to the conclusion that they won’t likely end anytime soon. 9] The first version of this was completed circa 2017 for use inside conservatorship.