The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs. mortgage originations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

The core thesis of this two-part article is that the congressional design of GSEs has a fundamental flaw: that subsidies and privileges given to a GSE will inevitably, over time, drift to being used unduly to produce stand-alone profit to benefit their owners and executives, and too little to support its intended mission.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. We live in divided, short-sighted times. They don’t conform to election cycles.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). The result is a new set of tasks on the agendas of late modern citizens that enable the creation and continual maintenance of a personally satisfying sense of self—or “personal identity project” (Reynolds, 2008; Giddens, 1991).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There was an article in my newsfeed that Kroger, the largest supermarket company, is going to buy Albertsons, the second largest supermarket company (" Albertsons merger with Kroger could be announced this week ," CNBC. And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I should have been a professor and written this up as journal articles--which have much more longevity than a blog post, but c'est la vie. At the Urban Forum in Philadelphia in 2003, I asked one of the speakers, Charles Buki, what were some of his key influences. Governing Magazine was full of articles about government success.

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