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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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Predicting diabetic patient readmission using multi-model training on Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

AWS Public Sector Blog

This solution uses the UCI Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 dataset , from which we’ll extrapolate data insights with machine learning. For this walkthrough, you should have the following prerequisites: An AWS account. Create an Amazon SageMaker Notebook instance in your AWS account. Log in to your AWS account.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Consequently, the authors maintain that state and federal policymakers must provide institutions with the resources necessary to design effective discharging planning, and furthermore hold them to account should they fail to do so. Providing Emergency Shelter.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. So during our summer account planning meeting, our staff were saying that, okay, we’re losing our older kids, our eleven and twelve year olds. So one of the programs that we developed was a digital media account.

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Space needle thinking: Seattle, seizing opportunity, and transformational projects action planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Flickr photo by John Smatlak.