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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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Announcing the 2023 Google Cloud Customer Award Winners in Government and Education

Google Public Sector

This year’s winners of the Google Cloud Customer Award in government and education include eight organizations from across the country. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. The emergence of Ukraine 2.0

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Announcing the 2023 Google Cloud Customer Award Winners in Government and Education

Google Public Sector

This year’s winners of the Google Cloud Customer Award in government and education include eight organizations from across the country. Google Cloud Customer Award Winners: Government Winner: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Informed Delivery notifies subscribers of upcoming deliveries.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said.

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Celebrating Latino Conservation Week — Episode 117

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Launched in 2014, Latino Conservation Week is an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation and was created to support the Latino community getting outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural resources.