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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts.

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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)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. But is this argument valid? For several reasons, in my view, the argument is not substantially valid.