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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

In the 2000s was a key advisor to the project that created Transantiago , a government agency managing all public transport in the capital region. The implementation of Transantiago, however, was a disaster. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together.

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The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority outbids Wall Street to buy houses in Cincinnati

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sadly, wrt the Purple Line I first suggested this in 2007. I guess this presupposes that the agency is predisposed to act instead of sit around. Fifteen years later, still no action. Historic preservation. Same for historic preservation. The best way to arrest the possible demolition of a property is to buy it. Bias for action.

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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)

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. Brokerage commissions. 15 Credit reports. 1 See White House Fact Sheet 3/7/24: [link].

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Station North Arts District , anchored by Penn Station, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art (a degree granting institution) and the University of Baltimore, has always impressed me.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This is due to the controversy surrounding how the agency has changed the specific amounts by which the two GSEs risk-adjust the interest rates at which they purchase mortgage loans. This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).