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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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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)

In Part 3, I describe what implementable policy leverage points make sense, in my view. 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. 14] See U.S.

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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

New York City has also recently implemented “Cease and Desist Zones” to protect homeowners in neighborhoods that are receiving extreme levels of home sales solicitations or in neighborhoods that might see increased sales pressure, such as those recently rezoned to allow more housing. ” Press release.

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Earth Day is today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Considering denying nonprofit status to environmental advocacy groups (" Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups ," Bloomberg) as it's already cutting grants to such groups without authorization from Congress (" EPAs Decision to Scrap $20bn in Climate Grants Based on Inaccurate, Politicized Claims, Says Grantee ," Earth.org).