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The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by redeveloping severely distressed public or HUD-assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements.
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A local government’s posture should be to act and prepare as if an attack is lurking just over the horizon.
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Check out the best ideas in local government this week that you might have missed!
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Patience is the capacity to tolerate delay without getting frustrated or upset.
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Asset management, needle use heat map, water conservation
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ICMA's new e-book on performance management includes multiple examples of applying data to better management and decision making, including a number of international applications.
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Read on to see what the data shows about resident discourse on measles, what residents are expecting from their cities, and more.
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Paul Brake, city manager, Morgantown, WV, shares his experience at the HKS Senior Executives in Local Government program.
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This two-minute animated video explains the benefits of council-manager government and professional local government management.