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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

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A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center. Since then, AWS has invested ZAR 15.6 The new EIS states that AWS plans to invest ZAR 30.4

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. million in total economic impact. But it would have to be built into the experience.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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The Use of Housing Choice Vouchers in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Department of Housing and Urban Development. While eviction filing rates for units with voucher households were higher than those for other renter households in the same neighborhood in 2019, we observed a shift in 2022, with voucher households experiencing lower filing rates.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. Also see " A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019. The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5

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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing

AWS Public Sector Blog

In May 2022, the European Commission (EC) proposed to set up a European Health Data Space (EHDS). We have long invested in developing capabilities and services tailored to the unique privacy and security needs of the healthcare sector, and we are committed to supporting open source, open data, and open standard communities.

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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)