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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This launch will add the mobile apps to the web and Outlook functionality that GCC accounts already have today. A new feature was implemented that changes the format that is used to create user photo names from a UPN based format to ObjectId based format. The rollout begins in late August, with plans to be completed by mid-September.

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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. Impact to users: Users will no longer be able to use video or screensharing when they are using Microsoft Teams optimized for VDI when this change is implemented.

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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. Brian Elms with J.B.

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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)

MAY 31, 2023

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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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. Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years.

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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)

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)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. In Part 3, I describe what implementable policy leverage points make sense, in my view. Having to travel down highways naturally accounts for its long thin shape (which acts as a considerable design constraint). 24] Rural areas account for approximately 14% of the U.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all at-risk homes (for data reasons, Staten Island is not included in our analysis). Table 1) Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all At-Risk and Higher Risk properties identified in our analysis. Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of At-Risk and Higher Risk properties.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. First it was the design method instead of rational planning; Then action planning; incorporating the design method, social marketing, implementation and citizen centricity. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We did this in 2008 or 2009. But they weren't particularly well structured or systematic in processes for recommending and implementing improvements. 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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

This four-part series addresses the “how” of such a conservatorship exit, i.e., what it will take to actually implement it. 2] The concept of GSE reform by administrative means was then developed as a way to implement those fixes, but without waiting for Congress to revise those charters.

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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)

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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 28, 2025

This four-part series examines what it will take to actually implement that exit, a process known informally as “reform-recap-release.” 2] Workstream 5 [3] – Primary capital raise: Develop and implement a plan for F&F to have enough capital to qualify for exit from conservatorship.

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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.

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