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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Increases in housing density in the decade leading up to the study period (more units mean low-income people have a place to live even as higher-income people move into the neighborhood); and 8. The presence of community-building organizations (which can put up housing and strengthen social ties) Discussion. how about Waverly etc.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. However, the night after we viewed the house, I had a very uneasy feeling and couldn’t sleep. It was the house.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

I first visited the affected area in 2014, having failed to gain a place on an earlier expedition that took place a year and a half after the disaster. The story of Okawa is movingly described in Richard Lloyd Parry's remarkable book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan. The affected area is the T?hoku I was in a magnitude 6.8

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " 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.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Students spend most of their money on food and drink, books, and sundries. I just learned that another place where I lived will be demolished for a new dormitory (" Saying goodbye to Ann Arbor's Marshall Court: Houses to be demolished for new dorm ," Ann Arbor News ).