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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

3 In this article, I argue that these two standards are no longer essential given the evolution of the markets and mortgage industry over the decades since they were established. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. 10 Second, the recommendations’ emphasis on Ginnie Mae is misplaced.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A list of the full citations of the articles referenced can be found at the end of this post. One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). Decker, Andrew.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I do searches for articles within the blog, I come across articles that remain in draft form, as I never got around to finishing them. So there is a current article in the Post (" Departing DC planner Harriet Tregoning hailed as 'forward-thinking public servant ") and a previous article in the City Paper (" Urbanista!:

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. Article II, Section 24 of the state constitution excludes from the definition of a local act any “any bill to enact a general law classified by population or other criteria.”

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The "nonprofit industrial complex," city government and service delivery

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the Journal of Business Ethics article, " The Labyrinth of Corruption in the Construction Industry: A System Dynamics Model Based on 40 Years of Research ," : Abstract The academic literature has viewed drivers of corruption in isolation and, consequently, failed to examine their synergistic effect. No wonder corruption is so endemic.

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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)

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. See my article “The Policymaking Implications of Record-High Mortgage Origination Profits During the Pandemic. Thus, a potential 0.20

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

4] North Carolina Legislation 1975 , ed. Because we are unlikely to know the applicable rules until months after a disaster occurs, the remainder of this blog post will assume that local government disaster aid will be structured as loans (not grants and not forgivable loans) in order to avoid duplication of benefits issues.