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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The passage of the ADA was preceded by years of activism and advocacy-group efforts. In the present day, ADA regulations continue to evolve, as advocates push for increased access to all parts of public life. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S.

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Over Forty National, Local, and Land Bank Stakeholders Join Community Progress in Asking Bank Regulators to Strengthen the CRA

Center for Community Progress

This joint effort represents the first major revisions to CRA regulations since 1995. Land banks play an important, innovative role in community development, and land banks and land banking activities should be included in the final CRA regulation. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible. Don’t limit the scope or scale of CRA.

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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)

Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. mortgage originations.

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How JDRF uses AWS to power Type 1 diabetes research

AWS Public Sector Blog

JDRF is the leading global T1D research and advocacy organization with a vision of eliminating T1D permanently. As a winner of the AWS IMAGINE Grant in 2020, JDRF received unrestricted funding, AWS Promotional Credit, and guidance from AWS technical specialists to begin implementing this project. When do people get T1D?,

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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)

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. 15 Credit reports.

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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. ” [link]. [9]

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This simple advocacy narrative is even generalized, not restricting MH to the geographies where it currently has a high market share, i.e., lower population density areas where land is readily available and inexpensive. 2] Also, See Fannie Mae, “Manufactured Housing Landscape 2020,”( [link] ). Of the total of 6.7

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