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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014.

Housing

Housing Operations Security Engagement

Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

Housing

Housing Laws Regulations Development

Dispelling the top 8 cloud myths holding back Canadian public sector IT transformation

AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Regarding investment, the largest CSPs have invested almost $4 billion in Canadian digital infrastructure since 2014 , with AWS alone planning to invest $24.8 Prioritizing in-house skill development and a culture of continuous learning is crucial. billion in Canada between 2022 and 2037.

Public Sector

Public Sector Security Sustainability Operations

What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

Stewardship

Stewardship Legislation Advocacy Parks And Recreation

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

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6

Regulations

Regulations Housing Legislation Community Development

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); commitment and time.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

At Branch Park, the design team took these various experiences into account, incorporating seating options, shaded areas, viewing gardens, open spaces conducive to informal games, and a playground. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Press Release Strategic Planning Engagement

Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)

Housing

Housing Regulations Government Accountability

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

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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 It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

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

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. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

Government

Government Housing Implementation Legislation

Why Federal Down Payment Assistance and Closing Cost Reform Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In fact, over the ten-year period from 2014 to 2023, it was even lower, averaging just 6.4 7 Second, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the largest government agency that helps finance homeownership, routinely insures mortgages with just a 3.5 The typical FTHB down payment is nowhere near the historic 20 percent level.

Housing

Housing Accountability Campaign Government

Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

Magazine -- " Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, and WorkFamily Balance ," Fordham Law Review -- " Women in the Urban Environment ," Signs Vol. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

Urban Planning

Urban Planning Transportation Budgeting Voting

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release Part 1: The Necessary Background

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 31, 2025

Introduction Since the election of Donald Trump to his second term (Trump II) last November, the most debated topic in housing finance is whether and when his administration might take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) out of conservatorship. [1] An exit from conservatorship can occur through legislation or administrative means.

Implementation

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

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Dispelling the top 8 cloud myths holding back Canadian public sector IT transformation

What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

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

Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

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

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

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

Why Federal Down Payment Assistance and Closing Cost Reform Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Women's History Month and urban planning

The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release Part 1: The Necessary Background

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