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. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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per cent in 2016, and to 30.28 per cent in 2021. per cent more than they did in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, renters’ average bills went up 48.2 Where owners in all areas spent 45.35 per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 The average tenant in Canada last year paid 17.6 per cent over that period.

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The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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MARCH 9, 2023

And there are some examples of arts focused CDCs in the US that are very good including Playhouse Square District Development Corporation in Cleveland and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust which operate on a large scale, and smaller groups.

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can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021). Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St.

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It's provocative and worth reading, although maybe not relevant to the murder and gun problems. -- " The opportunity to rearticulate public safety delivery keeps being presented: Rochester New York " (2021) There is the broken windows approach. -- " Broken windows/collective efficacy: Baltimore; Newark; Grand Junction, Colorado; Pittsburgh; Albany (..)

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Policy Chats

MARCH 11, 2024

About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. In 2021, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted by a vote of 4 to 1 to adopt a Supervisorial district map for the 2020 round of redistricting that was really fraught with a lot of controversy.

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Policy Chats

MARCH 11, 2024

About Sabrina Cervantes : Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes was elected in November 2016 and represents California’s 58th Assembly District. In 2021, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted by a vote of 4 to 1 to adopt a Supervisorial district map for the 2020 round of redistricting that was really fraught with a lot of controversy.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). 2020; Preston & Reina, 2021) compared public housing authorities to private landlords in individual markets. One study (Gromis et al.,

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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I have a bunch of entries on radio: -- " Local music used to define communities: today with radio chains and national music distribution systems, not so much ," 2021 -- " Culture planning and radio: local music, local content vs. delivery nodes for a national network ," 2019 -- " Thinking anew about supporting community radio ," 2019 -- " Revisiting (..)

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On September 22 nd , 2021, Chinese real estate giant Evergrande failed to meet a coupon deadline totaling $83 million of bond interest payments. Evergrande has become highly leveraged through this strategy, with firm liabilities totaling 2 trillion RMB ($287 billion) in 2021 equaling 2% of China’s GDP. . Article by Katie Chen.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2024

As commercial districts shift to what I sometimes call "eater-tainment" (" Successful retail today often includes food, experiences, social elements, and isn't rote ," 2016), the reality is that when going to a sports event, consumers aren't interested in shopping at retailers--unless they sell team merchandise exclusively--they want experiences.

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DC produced a parks master plan, allegedly, about 6 years ago, but only an executive summary has been released. -- " Five examples of the failure to do parks and public space master planning in DC ," 2021 But the summary is good, and acknowledges the importance of the National Park Service in providing park space.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 18, 2022

In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. 2016); Saathoff v. 2016); Maldonado v. Trish Sifka —Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. Mays , 18 F.4th 4th 283 (8th Cir.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Since 2016, Dr. Jenkins has been the Director of the Office of Performance and Evaluation at the Administration for Community Living (ACL) at the U.S. Since 2016, Dr. Jenkins has been the Director of the Office of Performance and Evaluation at the Administration for Community Living (ACL) at the […]

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

I've written a bunch of articles on music as an element of the local arts ecosystem: -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Under threat: Austin's music industry as an element of the city's cultural ecosystem and economy ," 2016 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part (..)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2016, the Expanded Legal Services (ELS) pilot program launched with the aim of providing legal representation for tenants living within 10 ZIP Codes with household incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. As of 2021, the City has expanded UAC citywide. Methodology. Research Questions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

In June 2021, the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team selected OSK as part of the four-week AWS Space Accelerator program to provide guidance on how best to make huge amounts of data about pipelines usable and actionable with cloud computing and analytics technologies.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JANUARY 7, 2021

He’s an economist and a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and has collaborated with the IRS on several research projects, as we highlighted on this podcast in 2016.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

In " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector " (2021) I suggested that some colleges are particularly good at spin off business development and we should figure out how to duplicate and replicate that. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

As of Tuesday, January 18, 2022 , building owners with a possessory judgment from prior to September 2, 2021 will be able to file motions with the court requesting a court date to seek a warrant of eviction for tenants whose cases are not stayed. In August 2021, the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

. -- " Planning for place/urban design/neighborhoods versus planning for transportation modes: new 17th Street NW bike lanes | Walkable community planning versus "pedestrian" planning ," 2021 -- " The layering effect: how the building blocks of an integrated public realm set the stage for community building and Silver Spring, Maryland as an example (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2023

Photo taken on a bad air day in August 2021. This piece has links to past entries concerning corridor management. -- " Washington Post letter to the editor on repair-related closure of Rockville and Shady Grove Stations and corridor management " (2021) Both have public comment and/or public meetings happening currently.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. In the last decade, cloud computing has grown into one of the most important paradigms in business.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

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The first time I wrote this post was in 2016, but I've never done it early enough in the month, when you can actually procure an item in time, without paying for expedited shipping. Inflation along with rising wage rates have also affected restaurants. Pandemic: Supply chain and now inflation. The specific coffee we buy is up 60%.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), a statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed in 2016 to promote a culture of lifelong learning in Singapore and strengthen the country’s ecosystem of industry-relevant training and adult education.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 13, 2023

In 2016, James Shupe (formerly Jamie*) successfully petitioned an Oregon circuit court to become the first person to legally identify as nonbinary in the United States.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 7.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 16, 2021

19-1619, 2021 WL 232554 (4th Cir. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *1. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *4. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *6. Amaya , 2021 WL 232554, at *7. 2016) ("Because the BIA decision relied on Matter of E-A-G- [24 I. In Amaya v. Rosen , No. 208, 221 (B.I.A. Particularity is a question of law.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

When this will happen: Rollout will begin in early December 2021 and is expected to be complete by late January 2023 (previously mid-November 2022). Microsoft 365 MC494735 — Group Policy for LookUp and Translate in Visio 2021 LTSC Note : This change only impacts Visio 2021 LTSC. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89777.

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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.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Suzanne was in Portland last week, and one of the places she stayed had a copy of Portland Monthly from last year, with an article about on " Portland Neighborhoods by the Numbers 2021: Nearly every part of town saw an increase in the median sales price last year." Housing Market Needs 5.5

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2016, CSS initially designed the CSP to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a traditional server-based architecture within a single AWS Region. With AWS services, CSS demonstrated scalability during volume increases, while transitioning to a fully remote workforce during the pandemic with no disruption to the market.

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MARCH 1, 2024

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Cities cost money to operate. Cities have to earn money to pay for all the things that people say they want. An art gallery type building won't have near the economic return as a sports arena, provided it is super well planned. Transit and economic development.

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