Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. So during our summer account planning meeting, our staff were saying that, okay, we’re losing our older kids, our eleven and twelve year olds. So one of the programs that we developed was a digital media account.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In response, starting in 1995, the accounting authorities began to require that these contracts be put on a servicer’s balance sheet as an asset (called the MSR asset) equal to the estimated market value of the profit flows over the life of the underlying mortgage portfolio. government. 11 The FHFA is the regulator of the two GSEs.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Since the 2008 Recession, Wall Street venture capital firms have developed large portfolios of single family housing, converting the properties to rental from owner occupied. Housing market, venture capital and single family housing as rentals.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

Consequently, the authors maintain that state and federal policymakers must provide institutions with the resources necessary to design effective discharging planning, and furthermore hold them to account should they fail to do so. Providing Emergency Shelter.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

USA Today reports that some bankruptcy experts have predicted that Detroit’s case could last as long as three years [a large Californian case in Vallejo took one year to decide if it was even ELIGIBLE for bankruptcy in 2008 then another three years to be released from bankruptcy protection granted].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Flickr photo by John Smatlak.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the US, fertility rates have been steadily declining since the 2008 Financial Crisis, where “births have sunk below replacement level” (Miller). Our research includes the changes in birth rates for the decade prior to the trough of the GDP shock to account for existing trends.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. His substantive research topic interests include infrastructure (transportation) finance and policy, disaster finance, fiscal transparency, and financial accounting.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This launch will add the mobile apps to the web and Outlook functionality that GCC accounts already have today. Microsoft 365 Apps implications when Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Extended Security Updates (ESU) ends support on January 10, 2023. The rollout begins in late August, with plans to be completed by mid-September.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Steve Pinkerton has been the city manager of Manteca since 2008. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. She is the Hayward, California city manager and has worked in the office since 2006. Categories include good government, hot topics, and reflections. City Manager’s Blog. City Manager’s Blog.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Marc Holzer (editor) and Andrew Ballard (editor) Public Productivity and Performance Handbook , 3rd Edition, 2021, plus Roadmaps for Performance Donald Moynihan, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform , Georgetown University Press, 2008.

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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). The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

As described in Part 1 of this three-part series, MH – a term which in this paper refers to the factory-produced structure that is later sited on a residential lot – accounts for approximately six percent of owner- and renter-occupied housing in the U.S., with a much greater market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. Having to travel down highways naturally accounts for its long thin shape (which acts as a considerable design constraint). Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Current users have access to their accounts via Power BI for the Web and can switch to this option any time prior to retirement. To change your location from Teams, simply click on your profile on the top right corner of the Teams window, view your account settings menu and change your work location for that day.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We did this in 2008 or 2009. Use the daypart model, account for seasons, city-wide events that you may or may not be able to leverage, and organize it by program area -- food, arts, etc. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c. Need staff to be able to do it. This should be indoors and outdoors.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the top of the list were Jay Fountain, then at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board; Harry Hatry, whose work with the Urban Institute and other organizations made him a giant in the field, and John Kamensky, who was then with the General Accounting Office (as the U.S. Government Accountability Office was known until 2004.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s gentrification crisis?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). We reject design thinking as a singular tool kit prescribed to solve social problems.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

This was described on the one hand as unfair, since it relied on overcharging low-risk borrowers “who had played by all the rules” and, on the other hand, as unduly incenting bad loans at the GSEs (by charging too little for high-risk loans) in a quasi-replay of the lead up to the mortgage bubble of 2005 to 2008.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

5] To state the obvious, the reason the implementation of reform-recap-release needs to be well thought out and executed is that F&F are together the backbone of the country’s mortgage system, accounting for roughly half of the nearly $13 trillion first-lien mortgage market in America. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [8]

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

Introduction Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (F&F), the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), were placed into conservatorship in September 2008 at the height of the Great Financial Crisis, when the markets lost confidence in them. For example, see the September 2008, “Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

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