Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’ve probably seen an abandoned house or two in your neighborhood. These empty structures and lots remain for years, deteriorating in condition, weakening the housing market, driving residents out of the neighborhood, and fueling more vacancy. The global financial crisis in 2008 was also a major trigger for many communities.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government. (For

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. It’s totally on you to figure out what you need to learn, who to learn it from, and then how to implement it. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved.

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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 our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well. So definitely putting something on paper, having a formal process is beneficial when implementing programs. Chris: Yeah. Becky: Well, good deal.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Is there a way for such commercial and neighborhood revitalization and management programs to be developed and implemented at a scale that doesn't reach that of the groups that typify downtowns and large parks? A signature initiative was the creation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, which was funded by a TIF bond.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

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 "). In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Photo of a manufactured housing neighborhood Introduction Manufactured Housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. Brokerage commissions.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We did this in 2008 or 2009. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. It could create the potential for noise conflicts, as it abuts housing on C Street and North Carolina Avenue.) I was involved in helping "to save" that area c. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. 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

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As a Data Security and Compliance Leader, Max has implemented security strategies working directly with CxOs of global firms. As an OPM Associate Director, Peter recently worked with the federal agencies tasked with hiring the talent needed to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Max is a former U.S

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Haiti After the Earthquake.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Create circuit breakers Get vacant properties back on the tax roll Increase assessment frequency Reduce government spending Raise other taxes Implement a 'millionaire tax' Address appeals I didn't think the solutions were particularly amazing. Through 2008, HCW launched nineteen projects, totaling $197.5 million in investments.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] government (i.e., trillion amount.

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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. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Pullman is distressed. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). The result is a new set of tasks on the agendas of late modern citizens that enable the creation and continual maintenance of a personally satisfying sense of self—or “personal identity project” (Reynolds, 2008; Giddens, 1991).

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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. The possibility of a GSE conservatorship exit has sparked considerable media attention, particularly in housing and mortgage industry circles.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

Introduction Since the election of Donald Trump to his second term (Trump II) last November, the most debated topic in housing finance is whether and when his administration might take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) out of conservatorship. [1] Again, numerous market-changing reforms have been implemented in this manner.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This means the current administration has the power to make changes in GSE mortgage programs and policies that could materially impact large numbers of current and prospective homeowners, as well as the mortgage and housing industries. First, the White House can tell the FHFA what to do in as much detail as it chooses.

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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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