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Inclusive Success Stories for Community Engagement

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In saying this, many organizations are implementing innovative and inclusive approaches to ensure diverse voices are heard and valued within the community. And we believe that it’s critical to successful public policy that can result in transformative change within the community, but also internally.

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Building trust in government: A data-driven imperative

Partnership for Public Service

While these numbers highlight challenges, they also present an opportunity for the government to reset its relationship with the public through improved federal data practices Implementing robust data collection, management and dissemination practices can serve as a step toward greater accountability and transparency.

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Municipal finances face a shaky future

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That translates into fewer jobs and business contracts, and a slower economy. Politicization of public policy, which has stalled Congress on immigration and other key issues since the 1980s, has been spreading among state and local governments. Rising interest rates. That’s likely to accelerate a commercial exodus.

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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 has unexpectedly led to heated public commentary, including two highly critical Wall Street Journal editorials. The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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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. This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures.

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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. taxpaying public. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

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. We seem to be stuck. And getting unstuck is hard. Enter The Possibility Partnership.