The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). mortgage originations.

Legislation 93

Legislation Housing Regulations Operations 93

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. Let us remember that, where foresight should have been exercised, improvisation can all too easily be regarded as negligence.

Coordinator 52

Coordinator Laws Disaster Response Management 52

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.

Regulations 59

Regulations Housing Legislation Community Development 59

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

Housing 98

Housing Laws Regulations Development 98

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Covid-19 has revealed that the UK civil protection system is inadequate.

Communications 52

Communications Legislation Implementation Public Health 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?

Legislation 105

Legislation Regulations Operations Housing 105