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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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Divided by Design? Urban Renewal’s Long-term Impact on Poverty and Income by Race

The Lowe Down

Urban renewal was controversial because it allowed governments to forcibly seize properties and displace residents via eminent domain. In 2021, Lavoice showed that urban renewal resulted in a decreased share of black residents in redeveloped neighborhoods. All results were significant at a 95% level.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

Cyber experts often emphasize that there’s no silver bullet for improving the security of government systems. In the United States, the number of unfilled jobs stands at about 410,000, a 9% increase over 2021. The federal government has increased efforts to improve the security of the software supply chain.

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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”

Barrett & Greene

We researched and wrote about this issue in a 2021 report for UKG, called Employee Leave in the Public Sector: Current Challenges and Solutions. But first a little background: “No leave issue is more of a fiscal threat to governments than ‘Leave liability’,” we wrote in the UKG report. How many more is an open question.

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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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Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent of New York renters paid more than 30 percent of their income toward housing expenses—the threshold of being cost-burdened—in 2021. In Gowanus, a major 2021 zoning change allowed for 8,500 new units, but took nearly seven years of organizing to win approval. Furman Center analysis of census data shows that 54.1

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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

Controlling public safety is a major concern of governments, and that’s where public safety technology comes in The legitimacy that results from managing a crisis has an instant and lasting impact on public opinion and the daily lives of citizens. This means that public safety is both a risk and an opportunity.