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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)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For awhile GWU did a program like the Community Planning Lab, mostly for ANC commissioners, but I didn't think it reached very far. -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," 2010 DC and non-citizens. I think that's reasonable. Residents who are not citizens still have a stake in local matters.

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. Brooks Patterson (" The rise of Oakland County is built on Detroit's Fall ") died).

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

One candidate definition is that the power of a legislative leader or party is an ability to achieve outcomes that would otherwise have been unattainable or to prevent outcomes that otherwise would have taken place (Bachrach and Baratz 1963). Women in the state legislative power structure: committee chairs. Darcy, R (996).