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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In 2020, when the pandemic increased the need for grocery delivery, states began to quickly support online SNAP purchases.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The government agencies that dominate mortgage finance 16 currently require a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, 17 known as a “tri-merge” report. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017. 15 Credit reports. There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. These are your most affordable models.

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