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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)

11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

As states consider tax-based approaches to bridging the gap, businesses and individuals will need to alter their strategic planning to account for potential tax increases. Duncan received New York University’s Outstanding Achievement in State and Local Taxation Award in December 2006 and was awarded the IRS Commissioner’s Award in June 2008.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

She is the Hayward, California city manager and has worked in the office since 2006. Steve Pinkerton has been the city manager of Manteca since 2008. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Fran David proves that city managing isn’t just for men. City Manager’s Blog. City News Blog. A Job Worth Doing.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

A Performance Reader’s Guide Continued: Shelley Metzenbaum, Demetra Smith Nightingale and Batia Katz, Communicating Evidence , Urban Institute, September 22 Ken Miller, We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths that Keep Government from Radically Improvement , Governing Books, 2006 Theodore H. Poister, Maria P.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. 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.

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