The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 28, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, 68 percent of new multifamily buildings used various forms of a 421-a exemption , accounting for 116,000 of the 171,000 housing units completed in multifamily buildings that decade. A significant portion of New York City’s newly built housing has relied upon a 421-a exemption.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. This clear policy standard for setting the average G-fee was, however, thrown into some uncertainty in 2020. percent to 0.49

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rather, since the New York City Housing Court began to accept new eviction filings again on June 20, 2020, certain types of cases moved forward despite a complex intersection of Local, State, and Federal protections. After the initial shutdown of the courts, the patchwork of programs and regulations allowed some cases to move forward.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

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] ” [link]. [26]

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Lots in these zones also benefit from slightly loosened density regulations and reduced parking requirements to encourage housing growth, especially in zones supported by mass transit. “Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Protect New York Homeowners from Deed Theft.” 7058, 2019-2020 Reg. ” October 28, 2020.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

The brief provides considerations for New York policymakers looking to reform current land use regulations. The brief highlights the impact of New York’s restrictive zoning on housing supply and the risks of future legislative inaction. Additional Viewpoints. In Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Legislators haven’t seriously considered measures to discourage drinking, and voters expanded access to alcohol in grocery stores. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions. Part 2: Colorado has some of the lowest alcohol taxes and highest drinking deaths.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? Arguments erupted over the role of local government regulations, from mask mandates to dining capacity limits, on shaping business activities. FIGURE 1: 2012-2020 Business Application Compound Annual Growth Rates by State. Article by Abbas Seltzer.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Importantly, this series is based on the widely held view that congressional legislation to reform the GSEs will not occur in the foreseeable future and that any significant changes to the GSE structure will thus need to be implemented via “administrative means,” as defined directly below. That portfolio peaked at over $1.5

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It is reasonable to rely on federal CDBG regulations for guidance because G.S. 4] North Carolina Legislation 1975 , ed. By implication, a program that is “principally” for the benefit of LMI persons need not be exclusively for their benefit. What is the meaning of “principally for the benefit” of LMI persons? 42 USC 5301(c).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. The Bush administration, therefore, did two things. In the end, none were successful.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

I have also written on the inherent design flaw in F&F and the other GSEs embedded in their congressional legislation: see [link] and [link]. ]] For many years, this was considered the responsibility of Congress, which had established the GSEs by legislation – but Congress has never come close to agreeing on what changes would be needed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Note that I think my Signature Streets concept is more expansive (" Extending the "Signature Streets" concept to "Signature Streets and Spaces" ," 2020). -- Complete Streets webpage , US DOT, via archive.org It's not the end of the world. And maybe UDOT will buckle.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This allowed its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – which declared itself to be their conservator – to operate the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards. Congress, over time, has created through legislation these two major targeted access-to-credit programs.

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