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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. What began as an effort to smooth the journey among offices and programs within VA is being extended to other federal departments that also affect veterans, such as Defense, Housing and Urban Development, and Education.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

This allows users to more simply load OSM data into Athena and perform SQL queries against a billion features in the browser, without the need to download or access the files directly. Many users forgo this by downloading smaller subsets or regional extracts and then filter them locally using custom tools that recognize OSM tags and metadata.

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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts. Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web.