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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

They have also observed that university programs that focus on public policy and statistics often teach R programming, so using R helps new graduates get up to speed quickly. They encourage and support novel applications for public policy research. By adopting a frugal discipline, they continue to innovate sustainably.

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A People-Centered Approach to Problem-Solving

GovLoop

Tara Dawson McGuinness describes her work as sitting at the intersection of policy creation, implementation, and citizen and community voices. McGuinness works at New America, a public policy think tank, where she founded the New Practice Lab, a research and design lab focused on family economic security.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

In some cases, you may be able to market a research study to a funder interested in implementing projects and vice versa: You might be able to convince a funder that traditionally focuses on research to fund your project. However, in general, where you look for funding for a project versus a research study will be different.

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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)

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. Such a process requires a public comment period, and it can sometimes take up to a year or longer.

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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)

Rather, the root cause has been the long-running blocking of reforms to reinstate price competition in housing and mortgage markets, which contrasts with other industries where such reforms have instead been successfully implemented in past decades. Brokerage commissions. 15 Credit reports.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This is due to the controversy surrounding how the agency has changed the specific amounts by which the two GSEs risk-adjust the interest rates at which they purchase mortgage loans. This has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. First it was the design method instead of rational planning; Then action planning; incorporating the design method, social marketing, implementation and citizen centricity. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?