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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

6 The regulations covering NMSs do not subject them to strong enough prudential regulatory requirements to ensure they can operate in a safe and sound manner even during times of significantly adverse economic and market circumstances. Inability to continue mortgage servicing operations. 23 Yet that 0.25

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators " I argue that to best buy, hold, develop, and maintain arts-related uses you need an arts and culture focused community development corporation (or the city or county government) to act at the city-wide/county scale.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. The trend continued for the next several years.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

nd building awareness and interest in the institution and the community (" House of Art(s) to open at the Springfield Art Museum ," Springfield News-Leader ), " Drury Students to help with De-Installation of Springfield Art Museum Exhibit ," Ozarks First, " Space as event as ouevre ," Gerard Nadeau). Again, I think this is community building.

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Really great article on historic preservation (North Carolina)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Meanwhile, from the 1950s through the 1970s, his hometown had undergone the same kind of “urban renewal” that happened across the country with the help of federal Housing and Urban Development and transportation grants. Once the building is gone, it’s eventually forgotten along with the stories.”.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.