Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Historical background has always played an important role in the development of case law under the U.S. Constitution, "Keeping and Bearing Arms—A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ". Constitution. Heller , 554 U.S.

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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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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Microsoft 365 Apps implications when Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Extended Security Updates (ESU) ends support on January 10, 2023. These APIs can be used by compliance admins and developers to manage retention labels in Data Lifecycle and Records Management solutions. Security/Identity. Microsoft 365.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

9 With the recently announced anti-trust settlement, will the NAR once again figure out how to technically adhere to the settlement agreement while developing a new method to undermine price competition? The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator. 15 Credit reports.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. 5 This is because the government has put considerable time and resources into developing lower downpayment alternatives that are still of acceptable credit quality to the government agencies that provide most mortgage credit today.

Housing 59

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH. At this point, we must expand the analytical framework developed in Part 1. These topics reveal that MH is indeed a very complex type of housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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. and (3) how much do MH structures appreciate in value over time?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

New York State Senator Rachel May introduced New York Senate Bill 7635 that would provide affordable housing developments a streamlined land use approval process in exclusionary jurisdictions. The brief provides considerations for New York policymakers looking to reform current land use regulations. times from 1990 to 2018.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia. north of Toronto.

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Elected Officials Public Safety Management Housing 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, in mid-2008, the market began to lose confidence in the implied guarantee given its informal and unwritten nature. 7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. Will Trump II aim, in developing a post-exit business model, to primarily satisfy the members of its political coalition who are small-government conservatives?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

This also reflected how much the FHFA and the new post-2008 boards and management at F&F had improved their operations during conservatorship, generally regaining the industry’s confidence that had been lost in 2008.

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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)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first event occurred in September of 2008 when the government placed the GSEs into conservatorship during the great financial crisis. This allowed its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – which declared itself to be their conservator – to operate the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards.

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