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Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: An interview with Oliver Wise, Director, Office of Performance and Accountability, City of New Orleans – Episode #114

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. He is the founding director of the Office of Performance and Accountability. An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

in 2011-2015 and 0.09 for 2016-2020. While we include county fixed effects to account for county-specific time-invariant unobservable characteristics, we do not explicitly analyze the relationship between ethnicity and pollution within counties the way we have for income. in the period 2006-2010. percent decline in exposure.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

She attended housing court to hold inspectors and policymakers accountable and spent every spare moment providing opportunities for her neighbors to learn job skills, from baking to data entry. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011. Source: Google Maps The same lot in 2016.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). 3] From when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. They raised unsecured funds, at those near-Treasury rates, to finance building up extensive discretionary mortgage-related investment portfolios. Also, the 0.10 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and Bush in 2004.