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What is a tax lien sale and why is it a bad way of dealing with vacant properties?

Center for Community Progress

When collection efforts have failed and the delinquent tax remains outstanding, the local government will pursue enforcement in a manner largely determined by state law: either sell the property or sell the tax lien. Eventually, the total debt becomes greater than what the property could sell for. What is a tax lien?

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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Stoneground Bakery sells wholesale and retail, baking and selling from an industrial building on the west side that isn't part of a commercial district. They cannot do both. Other neighborhoods would do well not to copy our mistakes. This is true everywhere, not just in Philadelphia. We overwhelmingly chose the latter.

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Earth Day Part 1: DC isn't achieving its sustainability goals wrt waste diversion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's important, but hard to do at scale when you only focus on food waste. Alternatively, simultaneously with the launch of an Outer City focused diversion program, the city could also do a pilot program in one rowhouse neighborhood, and work from there. But it's obvious they lack the capacity to do two different programs at once.

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What @sog_ced is reading online: May 2023

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

[link] Other CED Items: Ohio land bank (which seeks to put blighted property back to productive use) creates land trust (which makes homeownership more affordable by selling the built structure but not the land underneath).

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How to protect the Active Directory from cyber attacks

Open Access Government - Technology News

His role as Enterprise Sales Representative for the UK and Ireland means he is responsible for selling into large accounts. It’s also a mechanism to be misused, to get to systems, to reap data and to extract data to do harm to the company. How does the Active Directory become compromised, and what can we do to prevent this?

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Conversations With CXOs: Michael Mayta

GovLoop

At one point, a main selling point was that it allowed you to pay for only what you used. On the other hand, he’s now doing a proof-of-concept project with Microsoft’s Dataverse cloud platform because it offers tools and storage that would be out of reach otherwise. We’re not doing that,” he said. How do we do it?

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Transit Executives Muse about Equity, Inclusion, and Post-Covid Priorities

Human Transit

What do communities really want from their transit agencies? What do communities really want from their transit agencies? Obviously, senior executives know how to sell their agencies, so some of what you read will sound like vague feel-good pitches. It’s interesting to watch how some different personalities do it.

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