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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. Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

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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?

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

While those grievances shared a common theme: discontent with the power of corporations and alarm that the economic future of a broad swath of the population appears in jeopardy this only proves that OWS tapped into widespread public discontent. There is no guarantee of public policy change as a result of powerful new social movements.

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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. And not just, I would argue, in the human services systems but pretty much anywhere government policy and services engage with people and communities.

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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. percent of the shares (plus potentially more). [16] 16] That leaves the presidential administration still in charge of the GSEs, just via Treasury rather than via the FHFA.