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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

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. Government Accountability Office notes that its auditors have made 712 recommendations to federal agencies since 2010, 21% of which have not been implemented.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Tools like code enforcement systems and land banking that can help neighborhoods thrive must be implemented with racial equity in mind, or else they can just as easily perpetuate a broken status quo. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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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)

This paper examines the effects of UAC in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation. Read the full paper here.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Yet, little academic research on governments has evaluated the process for selecting different tools, the policies governments have in place to implement them, and the consequences of using one tool over another. In our research study, we evaluate one working capital management strategic tool: interfund transfers.

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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

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Microsoft Collaboration Framework for the US Defense Industrial Base

Microsoft Public Sector

Microsoft 365 (M365) was released as a public hyperscale cloud collaboration suite of products in 2010, including hosted services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and has evolved to include Teams, Planner and many more. For example, in late 2017, Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc across Texas.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). We reject design thinking as a singular tool kit prescribed to solve social problems.

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