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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

CSS delivers an industry-critical function and is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). In 2016, CSS initially designed the CSP to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as a traditional server-based architecture within a single AWS Region. Key performance indicators for CSS cloud value.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But in recent years, California’s state government has stepped in to accelerate housing production by reforming zoning regulations, removing some of the red tape that has slowed production, and cracking down on localities that have historically resisted densifying. Marantz, UC Irvine, Christopher S. Elmendorf, UC Davis, and Youjin B.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 See [link]. [3]

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Data Update: Analysis Of Renters At Risk As Eviction Moratorium Expires

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Our data includes all cases filed after 2016, so it likely contains all cases before the court at the time of the first moratorium. After the initial shutdown of the courts, the patchwork of programs and regulations allowed some cases to move forward. Possessory Judgments. Unexecuted Warrants.

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