The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Open hybrid cloud offers a way forward, offering the ability to keep some applications in-house, and to scale when necessary in the cloud, without the risk of over-subscribing to services you aren’t using. This article appears in our guide, “ How to Kickstart Modernization.” That’s what effective modernization can do.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

3 In this article, I argue that these two standards are no longer essential given the evolution of the markets and mortgage industry over the decades since they were established. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. 10 Second, the recommendations’ emphasis on Ginnie Mae is misplaced.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

They can be very helpful: Using artificial intelligence (AI), ADM systems assist or replace human efforts to make potentially life-altering decisions related to public benefits, policing, housing, health care, immigration, education, emergency response, child welfare and other concerns. According to a recent survey, 70% of U.S.

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GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2023

Leadership or legislators might not be moved by the need for simplifying IT management or improving collaboration, but they understand the need to keep constituents safe and services running. This article appears in our Guide, “ Unpacking Digital Transformation.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. From the article: Residents who attended the Oct. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

Housing-Related Exemptions Builders inventory ( G.S. While this exclusion is not very popular across the state, each year there are legislative proposals to expand its reach. Low- & moderate-income housing ( G.S. Also note that low- and moderate-income housing owned by the government is fully exempt under G.S.

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Librarian.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks to reporters. Here’s an article from CNN. An email I wrote to our state library association about the concerning things happening in Texas. I wanted to make you aware of an issue concerning book challenges. I draw your attention to the quote from ALA.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As a result, the search for ideas to increase the usage of MH has been building given the critical affordable housing shortage that has grown for many reasons over at least the last decade.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. One idea proposed by housing advocates is to modify the “circuit breaker” residential tax exclusion so that it benefits more taxpayers.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition to housing issues, many tenants have been left unemployed either temporarily or permanently due to damage or destruction of businesses. Such assistance is in part meant to deter further displacement and loss of housing following a natural disaster. The rental of residential housing is an act that affects commerce.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction In April, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially solicited public comment on a proposal from Freddie Mac, one of the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) it oversees, to begin a pilot program to finance closed-end second (CES) mortgages. It seems clear it would not.

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The Lowe Down

JUNE 8, 2023

Article by Armine Kardashyan and Weston Crewe Days before the US was expected to have its first ever default, Congressional Republicans and the White House negotiated a deal that lifted the debt ceiling and cut government spending.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Detroit News has an article, " 2 Detroit museums seek same financial lifeline DIA, zoo got ," about how two cultural institutions based in Detroit, but serving the metropolitan area, The Charles H. From the article: Democrat Rep. That bill is before the House for final approval next week.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

The Washington Post recently published a long article on Social Security Disability Insurance benefits in small rural communities. The Post article focused on a former roofer who was suffering chronic pain because he’d fallen to the ground. And one devoutly hopes someone else in the White House. Hence this post.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Lire cet article en Français The potential of open data to transform governance and public services is immense, but realizing this potential requires overcoming common obstacles. Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms.

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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. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. It’s doubtful the council could have come up with any other bill that is more likely to provoke GOP reaction.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 15, 2022

There is an article (" Salt Lake City has no more affordable neighborhoods, as gentrification turns 'scary' ") in the Salt Lake Tribune about how there are no affordable neighborhoods left in the city. The "affordability problem" is a function of lack of housing supply. Fareed Zakaria (" Forget pronouns.

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