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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. mortgage originations.

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Lloyd Levine: COVID-19 and The Digital Divide

Policy Chats

APRIL 15, 2020

In this episode, President of Filament Strategies LLC and former member of the California State Legislature, Lloyd Levine talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the effects of COVID-19 on students, legislation, and non-essential business.

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Public Policy Legislation Budgeting Education

COVID-19: The Digital Divide (with Lloyd Levine)

Policy Chats

APRIL 15, 2020

In this episode, President of Filament Strategies LLC and former member of the California State Legislature, Lloyd Levine talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the effects of COVID-19 on students, legislation, and non-essential business.

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Public Policy Legislation Budgeting Education

COVID-19: The Digital Divide (with Lloyd Levine)

Policy Chats

APRIL 15, 2020

In this episode, President of Filament Strategies LLC and former member of the California State Legislature, Lloyd Levine talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the effects of COVID-19 on students, legislation, and non-essential business. Music by: Samuel Roberts (UCR Public Policy ‘20).

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

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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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Conservatives were very vociferous in opposing the changes, most notably in two prominent Wall Street Journal editorials: “Upside Down Mortgage Policy” (April 22, 2023) and “Spinning Federal Mortgage Fees” (April 28, 2023). 16 Lawsuits by state-level Republican officials were also threatened.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. See [link]. 10 See [link]. See [link].

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Advocacy Housing Regulations Legislation

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)

MARCH 10, 2023

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. taxpaying public. Second, if and when the GSEs exit conservatorship and are re-privatized, it will be necessary for public market shareholders at that time (who would then be replacing U.S.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Importantly, this series is based on the widely held view that congressional legislation to reform the GSEs will not occur in the foreseeable future and that any significant changes to the GSE structure will thus need to be implemented via “administrative means,” as defined directly below. That portfolio peaked at over $1.5

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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

Will GSE reform, including conservatorship exit, be accomplished through congressional legislation? When the conservatorships were established in 2008, exiting them required approval from both the presidential administration, acting through Treasury, and the then-independent FHFA, led by a single director.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

Lloyd Levine: COVID-19 and The Digital Divide

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COVID-19: The Digital Divide (with Lloyd Levine)

COVID-19: The Digital Divide (with Lloyd Levine)

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

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

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Part 2: Charter-defect Reforms

The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

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