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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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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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Announcing the winners of the inaugural Future of Government Awards: Celebrating digital transformation initiatives around the world

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation was established and Mykhailo Fedorov was appointed minister to lead his country’s digital transformation. Open Source Adaptation of the Year Award special mentions: BERDI – Canada Energy Regulator, Canada. Meet the winners and learn their stories below.

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Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act: An Initial Analysis of Short-Term Trends

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The NYU Furman Center analyzed several housing indicators to gain deeper insight into the initial impacts of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA). The drop in eviction filing rates may be due in part to landlords’ attorneys adjusting to the new regulations, including longer predicate notice periods.

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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. How much is the social housing white paper a driver of what you are doing?

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units. And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016).

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Disabled facilities grant: why is it so backlogged?

Open Access Government - Technology News

In 2019-20, almost 2 million households in England had one or more people with a health condition that required adaptations to their homes. This discretionary approach will help more people benefit from housing improvements, without the need to wait for several years.

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