The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

In China, there was a 15% decline in Registered Newborn Babies in 2020, and because of this trend, “the country’s population is aging more quickly than most of the world’s developed economies, a hangover from decades of family planning policies” (Bloomberg). births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Moving on to the third part, we then exposited our ideas about developing an American grand strategy based on “guarded openness”—a principle that, for example, encourages reaching out widely with ideas about freedom and progress, while still being circumspect about diffusion of advanced information processes and technologies. References.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. You’re demonstrating yourself as responsible, accountable, and having good communication skills. Develop those thoughtful questions. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. or totally dropped the ball?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

At first, as downtown buildings shut down, office staff and other nonessential workers spent more time in their neighborhoods, which was a boost to businesses, says Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at Brookings Metro who tracks commercial real estate and development.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 7 See Hahn, “DOJ, FTC & NAR: A Hundred Year War,” [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Develop carefully targeted programs to determine who will receive subsidies, as well as who will provide the funding for them by paying higher interest rates than required. Lastly, the FHA and VA need to develop quality transparency and reporting to demonstrate how these recommendations are being implemented.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

In 2016-2017, a policy consensus developed around the idea of keeping F&F rather than replacing them. [1] 2] The concept of GSE reform by administrative means was then developed as a way to implement those fixes, but without waiting for Congress to revise those charters.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

The biggest blemish on their pre-conservatorship record was not related to their ability to purchase and securitize mortgages but to an accounting “scandal” by both GSEs in the early 2000s in which they had to massively restate their balance sheets and earnings. to homeowners on a very large scale.[[The

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Register 2007. Gordon 2018.

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