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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The city did a plan for the area around 2003. My line was that it was a plan based on the late 1990s, and when DC resurged beginning with the election of Anthony Williams in 1998, the recommendations were out of date. This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward.

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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)

In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 Any contact between F&F and elected officials is strictly controlled by the FHFA. 24 Excessive executive compensation. Political is out, commercial is in.

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