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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)

They didn’t have competition in the conventional sense, but mainly competed in a limited manner with other government units, such as the Federal Housing Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to a certain degree with banks and institutional investors. It well reflects how much F&F are a hybrid of the two.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. This claim is simply untrue.