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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

Housing

Housing Regulations Government Accountability

Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Dave currently serves as a senior advisor for Blackstone Investment Group.

Public Sector

Public Sector Leadership Education Operations

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

The city stays on top of road snow clearance, most households shovel their sidewalks, and I don't know what the city does for separated bike lanes--which aren't close to my house, and these days I am unable to bike anyway.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

Webinars

Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

Laws

Laws Management Translation Community Engagement

To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The author makes the point that it's not easy to get from his house to a subway station, especially for trips to the airport, which include luggage. Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). Some examples exist, especially in Tempe, Arizona.

Transportation

Transportation Housing Sustainability Management

Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). blocks from a light rail station. Building the station cost a lot.

Economic Development

Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My entry on arts districts and arts as consumption versus arts as production is about this kind of approach (" Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" ," originally 2009, revised 2019). The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s). Art House Baltimore is the name of the project.It

Economic Development

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development

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

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.

Press Release

Press Release Housing Regulations Implementation

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Transportation

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Education Development Economic Development

2024 in Libraries

Librarian.net

JANUARY 5, 2025

Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. Previous years: 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. I liked working at my library.

Housing

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Or some housing on top of retail.

Public Safety

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing Campaign

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Webinars

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Community building versus economic development

The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

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

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

2024 in Libraries

The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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