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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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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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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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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I found this bookmark, promoting volunteering in the schools, in a book at a Library book sale. This school is located a couple blocks from our DC house, and for the first few years after it opened, they made a big effort to do outreach to the neighborhood, to invite residents to school events, etc., It dates to the 1980s.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In some respects, it's merely an extension of points (without the sociological criticism) made in the paper, " The City as an Entertainment Machine " (later expanded into a book), which extends Growth Machine arguments in terms of the post-industrial city and the shifting of focus on knowledge industries, leisure activities, and place qualities.

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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)

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.