Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 24, 2023

More than half of properties bought on those subprime loans provided by Wells Fargo between 2005 to 2008, for example, were subject to foreclosure. When the housing bubble burst, many homes were suddenly worth much, much less than what people owed on them. Seventy-one percent of those were in predominately Black neighborhoods.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

Transportation Management Districts as an implementation mechanism for trip shift. DC needs to be much more active when it comes to TDM (it does have some requirements), including the creation of Transportation Demand Management Districts (I suggested this for DC starting in 2005!!!!!!!!)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. In summary, the reforms that were called for by many critics of F&F prior to 2008, but which never happened, have been substantially implemented within conservatorship. This included employing ex-government officials from both parties to aid their cause.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area. Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30 percent (i.e.,

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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. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. First it was the design method instead of rational planning; Then action planning; incorporating the design method, social marketing, implementation and citizen centricity. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf. Social media in the public sector field guide: Designing and implementing strategies and policies. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds., 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

That's why too often, improvements are implemented after someone dies rather than systematically addressing problems beforehand (" Salt Lake City paints crosswalk where children were struck on way to school ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). Political Communication 25 , 269–289.

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