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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and 2008. Another identified 112 cases in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1978 to 2008. Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. Cities in Ghana and Kenya, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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. Security/Identity. Co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection encrypted documents on mobile devices. Microsoft 365. Microsoft Forms: Utilize Office Apps Administrator Role for Forms Administration.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator. 15 Credit reports. 4 See Fred Ashton, October 2022, America Action Forum.

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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)

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)

APRIL 29, 2024

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. The cost of the lender’s title policy, which is paid by the homebuyer via a single, upfront payment made at the closing, will vary from state to state, reflecting that the states regulate title insurance. 10] See [link]. [11]

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences. Was this not a disaster?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Long Island’s housing production fell by 58 percent from the 2001-2008 period to the 2009-2018 period and in the northern suburbs, production fell by 50 percent during the same period. 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

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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

However, this is incorrect as, especially since 2008, government legal agreements, regulations, and rules in practice limit the agencies to being solely channels for securitization. [33] 33] This is a fundamental design challenge for the government mortgage agencies in all their activities.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Lots in these zones also benefit from slightly loosened density regulations and reduced parking requirements to encourage housing growth, especially in zones supported by mass transit. 2 (August 31, 2008). link] Dyer, Janice, Conner Bailey, and Nhuong Tran. ” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 24, no. link] Hincken, Garrett.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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 gentrification crisis?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Instead, the required improvements would be implemented by a very limited number of new or revised Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) regulations related to the safety and soundness of the GSEs or through modifications to the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (PSPA). [3]

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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. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9] government (i.e., trillion amount.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

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. 15] At that time, the FHFA would still continue to be the regulator of the GSEs, of course. [16]

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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)

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)

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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