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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). Cities cost money to operate. Cities have to earn money to pay for all the things that people say they want.

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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. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business. In both documents, see the section titled “Financing the Home Purchase.” Behind a paywall.)

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As documented in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study referenced in Part 1, homebuyers will almost always defer to a third party involved in the purchase transaction to select a title insurer. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But with their falling into conservatorship while generating roughly one-quarter of a trillion dollars of net income losses from 2007 through 2011, faith in that business model understandably evaporated among policymakers.

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