The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 the legislation establishing them).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 19, 2024

My 2003 op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News was partially inspired by a super cool club-restaurant-performance space in an old Woolworth's (long since closed) in Germantown. Even in Mount Airy you could buy huge beautiful stone houses for under $600,000. Photo: Kimberly Paynter, WHYY/NPR. I have to laugh at the gentrification moniker.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. The one-time appropriation is a part of the overall $76 billion state budget on its way to Gov. The House supported the program through House Bill 5783. Gretchen Whitmer for signature. Critically, $21.5 Kenneth Horn (R-32), and Sen.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct. The rally that was held in front of the White House is said to have attracted nearly 300 people (O’Hara, 2010).

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