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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. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Where can I find information about best practices for CLTs?

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Shortline Rail on Delmarva

First State Insights

CEI) since 2015. Topics covered in this June 14, 2021 interview include the role of shortline railroad operations in freight movement, upgrades to rail infrastructure on Delmarva, and opportunities to leverage rail for economic development. Visit ipa.udel.edu for information on IPA. CEI) since 2015.

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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Individual departments got good information from their efforts but missed an opportunity to benefit from what other departments were learning, Reed said. Building on Early Success.

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Exploring Variations in ERAP Application Rates Across New York State

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As of August 31, 2021, only about 11 percent ($300,473,917) of the $2.7 In this post, we analyze New York State ERAP applications and the demographic, economic, and housing characteristics of the ZIP Codes where renters have filed applications as of August 31, 2021. We use the U.S. datafigure-arrears-applications-per-vli-renter}.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

Maura holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information, an MA in American studies from the University of Minnesota, and a graduate certificate in digital public humanities from George Mason University. from the University of Michigan School of Information, and is working towards a Masters of Data Science at SMU.

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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2015, the Singapore government launched the SkillsFuture Movement —a national movement to provide Singapore’s citizens with opportunities to develop to their fullest potential regardless of where and how they started in life. Introduced in 2015, all Singaporeans aged 25 and above can receive an opening SkillsFuture credit of S$500.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.