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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Similar proposals were made for some libraries in DC--the West End Library site was redeveloped as high income housing, and high quality affordable housing was built on H Street NE on the site of a modular, dinky library (" All-Affordable Apartment Building Headed to H Street NE ," NBCWashington).

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The purpose is to establish a solid fact base that is needed to develop effective MH-related policy. This reflects some basic economics about real estate development, which will be described in Part 2. That seems to be where MH can best play a leading, but not the only, role in developing additional sources of affordable housing.

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