Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

However, to fully understand how this legislation came to pass, and why it is helpful contextually to review the history of land banking and tax foreclosure in Ohio. In the 1970s, Ohio had passed what can be viewed as traditional land bank legislation, which authorized municipalities, counties, and townships to create land banks.

2009 52

2009 Legislation 2021 Operations 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator. 33 However, the FHFA lost its independence in 2021 and is now under the control of the White House.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 million units.

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Housing Laws 2007 Regulations 93

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

I have also written on the inherent design flaw in F&F and the other GSEs embedded in their congressional legislation: see [link] and [link]. ]] For many years, this was considered the responsibility of Congress, which had established the GSEs by legislation – but Congress has never come close to agreeing on what changes would be needed.

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