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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. CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement

Social Pinpoint

You just perfected the virtual meeting, and now you’re looking to combine new online best practices with traditional engagement methods. Then we’ll discuss big lessons learned and emerging trends in digital+ engagement. How does digital engagement bring in new voices and improve outcomes?

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Tending to Tenant’s Voices Online: The Garden’s proactive social housing tenant participation

Bang the Table

With the British government’s social housing white paper published just a few weeks prior, social housing provider Catalyst ® launched The Garden – an online community platform that enables tenant participation and provides real-time customer feedback. – Greek Proverb. What executive priorities were you looking to address?

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Beyond the Exodus: California’s Urban Centres in a Remote Work Age

The Lowe Down

The dominant narrative is that neighbourhood with easy access to the outdoors or that have maintained community engagement amid the rise of working-from-home have experienced strong increases in property values. I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024.

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