Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today. But that 20 percent requirement comes from an earlier era. lower downpayment loans (sometimes down to 3 or 3.5

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The GSEs and the FHFA together raised it to more than double 23 its pre-conservatorship value and a more defined economic rationale was developed over time to determine its “right” level. 40 Nevertheless, it has been most of a decade since the CCF was first developed. public comment periods) were bypassed. Also, the 0.10

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 24, 2025

and, by some accounts, overall US sales remained depressed over the next few years. Established manufacturers can build new factories, and new industries can develop (or old ones be revived). “Developing a global transport costs dataset for international trade,” UNCTAD Research Papers, Number 85, June 2022.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. References Alexander, D.E. Alexander, D.E. Ambraseys, N.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 17, 2025

we developed an analytical measure of geopolitical position, using votes in the UN General Assembly between 2005 and 2022 as a proxy for alignment on global issues. They were developed using the Global Trade Analysis Project, a widely employed, computable general equilibrium model.

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