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Transformation of Real-time Reporting: The Recovery Act


Donna S. Canestraro, Theresa A. Pardo, Natalie Helbig and Alison Heaphy

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) challenged state agencies to meet the Act’s new…

A Leadership of Public Service

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it most eloquently, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.…

Public Servants in Cameroon

Serving the public has never been anything easy to manage. There are two kinds of public servants here in Cameroon…It has never been easy to associate one-self in any of…

The Meaning of Friendship in a Social Networked World


"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote extensively about the notion and importance of true…

Whence Conspiracy Theories? The Nation’s Founding From Fabric of Suspicion

President Obama’s recent appointment of Harvard Professor, Cass Sunstein, to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, would have gone largely uncommented upon were it not for Sunstein’s position,…

Corruption Threatens Kosovo’s New Democracy

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, and thus far 71 countries, including the United States and most European nations, have recognized it as a sovereign state. Irrespective…

A Roof Over Our Heads: Housing in Camaroon

Having a roof over our heads in Africa generally and in Cameroon in particular, remains the tip of an ice burg. Most houses, even in the nation’s capital, are fast…

Boomerang Homeless Families

For the past eight years, the Bloomberg Administration has struggled in vain to control the number of homeless families in New York City. It has launched one policy initiative after…

Housing Needs for the Next Decade

For local policy makers anticipating the economic landscape in the post-recession and post-foreclosure period–roughly predicted to be the end of 2011 through until 2015–there are three factors that will influence…

The Reinvention of Affordable Housing Policy During Constrained Economic Times

State Housing Finance Agencies (HFA), a primary administrator of federal and state affordable housing funding, are at a defining moment in the development of innovative state-led housing policy. Across the…

Beyond The Market: Homeownership and Public Values

For nearly a century, homeownership has been upheld as a cornerstone of housing policy in the United States. However, the continuing housing crisis challenges the strength of this cornerstone.