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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)

Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. Such a process requires a public comment period, and it can sometimes take up to a year or longer. mortgage originations. More political than commercial. 81 trillion.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These two recent entries recount many of the pieces as step by step I developed a more comprehensive approach to arts-based revitalization. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy." 2d 306, 312 (1996) (regulations offer no excuse "where a party has assumed the risk of such regulation"). Brown Amusement Co. , 366, 371, 601 S.E.2d Dashiell , 195 Md. 677, 689, 75 A.2d

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The second strand is my continuing investment in the patient slog that is public sector and public policy reform, in this case informed by following the work of Jennifer Pahlka. If daycares end up serving bags of chips instead of bananas, that’s the impact they’ve had. But an aspiration worth hanging onto.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2016-2017, a policy consensus developed around the idea of keeping F&F rather than replacing them. [1] 8] The first three workstreams described below aim to successfully mitigate these defects through changes in FHFA regulations and PSPA amendments, i.e., via administrative means. That portfolio peaked at over $1.5