The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] This included employing ex-government officials from both parties to aid their cause.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

The lawsuit alleged that the defendants engaged in practices to restrict price competition in single-family brokerage commissions, in particular for homebuyers. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. Marginalized peoples and communities are using social media to magnify on-the-ground social movement actions and create collective action. In response to this criticism Clay Shirky (2011, p.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Meanwhile, any reduction in capital requirements from today’s elevated levels would predictably be castigated by housing specialists from the political right and like-minded members of Congress, who will undoubtedly then accuse the FHFA of engaging in deliberate undercapitalization, such as existed pre-2008 (as explained below).

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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. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. Rumsey Underground: Arts. An arts plan needs to be developed.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice. It already engages in various targeted policy subsidies related to its special mission. This claim is simply untrue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I do have some pieces that I've been drafting for years, without publishing, such as on civic engagement and national service (since 2020!), The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity. I have over 12,000 entries. or schools marketing. I am also working on a piece on social infrastructure.

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Park Leaders

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2005, Jeff initiated World Ranger Day. Jeff’s story is a great example of the importance of staying engaged with our professional communities and remembering the deeper purpose behind our roles. The Honor Roll is a way of recognizing park rangers who have died in the line of duty.

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