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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)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. the legislation establishing them). However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.

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From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As the local government minister, Jim McMahon, told the House of Commons last week: When we talk about important community assets, we see from an economic point of view that it is far better for them to be used and be productive, but we also recognise that they are hugely important to community identity and pride.

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The key to better enterprise risk management

Partnership for Public Service

Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series.

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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Despite the existence of CEEFPA and additional tenant protections that include the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”) and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act , there was never a complete moratorium on eviction cases proceeding through the New York City Housing Court.

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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.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

This legislation included a substantial "crack" in the over 70-year-old, court-imposed Feres doctrine, which barred tort claims by military members against the United States for injuries incurred incident to service. 2019) (marine private fell to his death over a stairwell during basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina, in 2016).

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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

This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions.

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