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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).

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. 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. The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 Nevertheless, there were some spectacular failures.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. For years I wrote that the DDOT safety dashboard was crap (" DC DDOT transportation access portal doesn't really say anything ," 2010). Government has a bias for inaction. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. Vision Zero.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. 10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class).

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. German VV as the model for DC.

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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

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.

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July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Help us shape our products for Government organizations. Microsoft is looking to understand employee experience sentiment in government organizations. What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2022 - Government. Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions. Government GCC High endpoints. Newsworthy Highlights.