Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thoughtful public policy can bring about this kind of change, mustering a predictable dose of “convincing technocratic optimism.”

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Government decision makers should take these swarms and their access to democratized digital technologies into account in future planning scenarios” (p.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26] More political than commercial.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

On the other hand, they are required to undertake a public policy mission that does not generate such a return, leading to Congress also awarding them subsidies to ideally even it all out. On the one hand, they are designed to be for-profit companies owned and capitalized by private market shareholders seeking a normal market return.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6 36 However, with a properly designed GSE Board in place, a public-private hybrid GSE can be a practical and reasonable vehicle to achieve public policy objectives over the long term.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

In many instances, individuals in leadership positions derive power from their access to information that is not widely available to the rest of the organization they lead.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Typically, the security deposit is not addressed in actions for summary ejectment because the landlord (or their agent) has usually not had a chance to inspect the rental property for damages and deliver an accounting to the tenant prior to the summary ejectment hearing. Unfair or Deceptive Practice Act. Creekside Apartments v. 42-25.6.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

) , Governing Books, 2016 John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, and Anton Gardner, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels , Greenleaf Book, 2014 Kaifeng Yang and Marc Holzer, The Performance-Trust Link: Implications for Performance Measurement , Public Administration Review, January/February 2006 Also, (..)

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 18 To learn more about tri-merge, see [link]. ” See [link].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

Makan had average entree costs significantly out of step with being located in a neighborhood, not Downtown or key restaurant districts like a Georgetown DC, where patrons go out for special meals, often on business accounts (Also see " Why restaurants are fighting to avoid being special-occasion spots ," Crain's Chicago Business ).

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

However, it is very hard to argue from a public policy viewpoint that taxpayers should indeed be implicitly subsidizing those types of loans. Adding quality transparency to the process so the public can see how it all works would complete the picture and eliminate any concerns about hidden agendas.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. Also, the 0.10

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 25, 2016

Department of Labor and is today a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 13(2), 262–273 DOI: 10.1177/1532440013484478. Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link]. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

-- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Forcing Displacement by the disconnection of tax assessment models from public policy goals ," (2005) -- " Displacement of retail businesses through increasing property tax assessments ," (2005) -- " Dupont Circle's changing retail environment covered (..)

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Staats award for excellence in program evaluation in 1985; a National Public Service Award in 1993; and the “Evaluator of the Year” award from the Washington (D.C.) Recalled Don Moynihan, McCourt Chair of Public Policy at Georgetown University, “Harry was an exceptionally kind and modest person despite his outsize reputation.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this edition, weve drawn from the same sources, but have also added contributions from Don Moynihan, who recently left the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to become a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The second strand is my continuing investment in the patient slog that is public sector and public policy reform, in this case informed by following the work of Jennifer Pahlka.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 15, 2025

Continuing the PSPA was viewed as good policy for three reasons. First, the historic implied guarantee was considered by many policymakers to be bad public policy. Thus, F&F putting a thumb on the competitive scale to advantage larger lenders via G-fee volume discounts was, in their view, counter to good public policy.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

For example, when states distribute finances to counties based on their total populations, it might be wise for them to take the individual counties’ median ages into account. These age ranges are of consequence for a number of reasons. Every 10 years information is pulled together about every single resident in the United States.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 21, 2022

For example, when states distribute finances to counties based on their total populations, it might be wise for them to take the individual counties’ median ages into account. These age ranges are of consequence for a number of reasons. Every 10 years information is pulled together about every single resident in the United States.

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