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From the Local Infrastructure Hub
From the Local Infrastructure Hub
With Local Infrastructure Hub Help, Lansing Seeks to Reconnect an Isolated Community
While it only takes eight minutes to traverse the city of Lansing, Michigan, on I-496, the cross-town expressway, it has taken 50 years to begin addressing the isolation and injustice the highway’s construction precipitated when it sliced through a vibrant...
The Local Infrastructure Hub Shows Communities How to Improve Street Safety, Creatively
Sometimes the nation’s infrastructure needs are so daunting that the expense seems out of reach. Other times, a fix can be in a community’s own backyard. It just takes a bit of DIY. Consider Globe, AZ, a copper mining hub 88 miles east of Phoenix near the crossroads...
Local Infrastructure Hub provides lifeline to Texas town seeking safer streets
Maria Tidwell returned to her native Texas in 2009 after years in New York. She got hired as a code enforcer in the little town of Gladewater, and started looking for what needed improvement. She didn’t have to look far. “We need everything,” she says. New streets,...
Supportive Services Can Promote Workforce Equity under BIL
Learn about how supportive services can be used to promote workforce equity under BIL.
Three New Ways that Cities Can Use Fiscal Recovery Funds to Support Infrastructure Projects
Read along to discover three new ways that cities can use fiscal recovery funds to support infrastructure projects!
Communities seeking funding to meet EV charging needs get Hub support
Eager to reduce fossil fuel emissions, the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal of building a network of 500,000 EV chargers across the country by 2030. That’s a tall order given that as of April, the U.S. had about 60,000 EV stations, with nearly half of...