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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. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play. 15 Credit reports.

Advocacy 101
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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

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.