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July 8, 2020
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
The Georgia Broadband Deployment Initiative (GBDI) has made three new Georgia Broadband Maps available to provide more transparency about the internet marketplace and clarify which Georgia households do not have access to high-speed internet.
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July 7, 2020
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has assembled two new research products for Georgia's cities based on 2019 American Community Survey data.
U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau released Community Resilience Estimates, a new experimental data product which shows risk levels by state, county, and census tract.
National League of Cities
When 2020 began, we could not have imagined what would have transpired in just a few short months. From health and economic crisis to resounding calls to address systemic racism, the state of our nation’s cities has changed dramatically.
July 2, 2020
Union City Mayor Vince Williams was elected president of GMA during the association’s annual convention on Thursday, July 2.
June 29, 2020
The U.S. Treasury provided Georgia with approximately $4.1 billion for coronavirus-related expenses from the CARES Act, of which an estimated 1.8 billion could be transferred to local governments for coronavirus-related expenses.
Public Square
Robert Steuteville, Congress for the New Urbanism
Urban planning has important contributions to a wide range of climate change responses, from mitigation to adaptation, notes Congress for the New Urbanism cofounder Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
June 16, 2020
City Observatory
The movement of talented young adults to dense urban neighborhoods is not waning; it is widespread and accelerating, and it is powering urban revival. This new report shows that the growth of close-in urban neighborhoods in the US since 2010 has been propelled by the accelerating movement of well-educated young adults back to the city.
June 11, 2020
Leadership Focus
June 9, 2020
Deke Copenhaver
It is my great hope that local governments in our great state and throughout our nation will rise above the politics of division and take a leadership role in holding true to the ideal that our nation is “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
June 5, 2020
Chris Obenschain
As seen in the aftermath of 9/11 and other catastrophes, people tend to help one another in times of crisis. And nowhere has that been more evident than with Georgia’s cities.
By Gayle Horton Gay
Across Georgia, land use projects have been completed and are underway that are providing recreational benefits for Georgians and, in some cases, resolving infrastructure problems as well.
June 4, 2020
Change is needed now, and it is leaders on the local, state, and national level that must listen and support those we know have suffered from inequality and those we have never met.