Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 mortgage originations. 24 Excessive executive compensation.
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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.
Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
Growth vs. shrinking | young vs. old | urban vs. suburban | historic preservation vs. limited building regulation. And I have this "enlightenment-age" idea that we are capable of learning, of having discourse. City revival.
A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
The government land banks’ ability to transact these properties is more regulated and less flexible when it comes to property disposition compared to private-entity transactions. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.
Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
In fact I was featured on the front page of the Metro section, albeit below the fold, in the Washington Post on Labor Day 2003, on the issue, in an article written by Craig Timberg. In the early 2000s!
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