The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

Government agencies have masses of personally identifiable information (PII), such as Social Security numbers, health records and financial details, at their disposal, and they need effective ways to gather, manage, store and secure it. But to what extent should organizations collect personal data, and for what purposes?

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. One hurdle Morton sees is that government agencies tend to operate by business unit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A big issue is that transportation agencies (and government agencies more generally), even very good ones like NYCDOT, aren't always that proactive, and tend to not have "a sense of urgency" when it comes to action.

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