2004 Housing Operations 
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. 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.
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. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.
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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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 21, 2024
Cities cost money to operate. Similarly, a school in her neighborhood is closing and she suggests it become a library, even though it's a good site for multiunit housing, when the main library is just a few miles away. But the values of houses north of H Street increased 6x or more, close to a billion dollars for 1,700 houses.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
MAY 6, 2024
No matter how large a disaster is, it is a local affair because that is where the theatre of operations invariably lies. COBRA, the national 'nerve centre' for directing major emergency actions in the UK, is a relatively small entity that does not match up to the specifications of a well-endowed national emergency operations centre.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 26, 2023
I know the argument that because the District of Columbia is the National Capital, park and urban design features should be operated by the federal government as an element of beautification. After all, that's how it's done in Paris (" Why Paris Works ," New York Times Magazine , 1992). But there are many others.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."
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