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Houston’s housing-first model is reducing homelessness. Here’s …
2022年12月5日 · The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have offered robust federal financial support for permanent housing and housing-first programs in recent years. Through the housing-first model, three states and 82 communities, including Houston, had achieved net zero veteran homelessness in 2021, …
12 predictions about the trends that will shape smart cities in 2022
2022年1月5日 · Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series on the trends that will shape smart cities in 2022. Cities needed to adapt to tremendous challenges in 2021. Leaders faced increasingly dangerous driving behavior, extreme weather events, tense political climates and rising crime rates in addition to the ongoing, and constantly changing ...
The Top 10 Benefits of Public Transportation - Smart Cities Dive
Top-10 Benefits of Public Transportation. 1. Economic Benefits to the Community. For every ten million dollars of transit investment made, business sales increase by thirty million dollars. During the 2006 to 2011 period, residential property was an average of 42% more valuable if located near high-frequency transit service, which means cities ...
How Houston’s homeless strategy became a model for other US …
2022年11月29日 · Just a decade ago, Houston had the sixth largest homeless population in the country, with about 8,500 people identified as being homeless on a given night in 2011, according to its annual point-in-time count.. The following year, Houston was one of 10 communities designated as a priority city by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a …
US DOT awards $3.3B to reconnect communities, offers funding …
2024年3月13日 · Dive Brief: The Biden administration made a series of transportation funding announcements in recent days, beginning Monday when Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recommended that 14 large transit projects in 11 states receive nearly $4 billion in President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request to Congress.; On Tuesday, the Federal Highway …
Detours Obligatory: Rotterdam’s Water Square - Smart Cities Dive
Instead of hiding runoff in underground pipes and cisterns, the square has been designed to make water the main feature. The designers say this is the world’s first “water square.”. Watersquare Benthemplein / De Urbanisten. Storm water is channeled through stainless steel gutters into three basins. Two shallow ones collect water whenever ...
Centers, Cities, Clusters: An Introduction | Smart Cities Dive
In their paper, “The New ‘Cluster Moment’: How Regional Innovation Clusters Can Foster the Next Economy,” Bruce Katz and Mark Muro assert that the financial crisis of 2007 – 2008 and continued economic distress demonstrate the need for a new paradigm of economic development that is “export-oriented, lower carbon, innovation-driven ...
How will AI impact transportation? US DOT wants public input.
2024年5月6日 · Dive Brief: Federal officials with a newly created Transportation Department agency are seeking input from stakeholders, interested parties and the public to better understand the potential effects of artificial intelligence. The government wants to avoid potential dangers that could disrupt labor, privacy and national security.
10 US cities ready for a ‘smart city future’ - Smart Cities Dive
2023年2月1日 · "The cities that will thrive in the future will be the ones best adapted to our new and greener ways of living. By looking at a range of factors, including tech infrastructure, sustainability, and the tech-driven job market, we were able to get a better picture of the U.S. and European cities will be leading the way into a smarter future,” said Erik Wallin, founder and …