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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)

The government agencies that dominate mortgage finance 16 currently require a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, 17 known as a “tri-merge” report. 15 Credit reports. This is because the issues and proposed corrections are usually very technical and behind-the-scenes in nature.

Advocacy 101
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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)

These loans, without special treatment to increase their G-fees, would benefit from the low funding cost enjoyed by the GSEs due to their receiving government support to back their guarantees. However, it is very hard to argue from a public policy viewpoint that taxpayers should indeed be implicitly subsidizing those types of loans.

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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

2020) -- " Creating 'community safety partnership neighborhood management programs as a management and mitigation strategy for public nuisance programs: Part 3 (like homeless shelters)." 2020) -- " To be successful, local neighborhood stabilization programs need a packaged set of robust remedies: Part 2."