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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

In 2003—with the expert guidance of another future Community Progress co-founder, Frank S. Positive impacts of land banks in Michigan All across the country, land banks have documented positive benefits for the communities they serve. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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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)

Written in a neutral regulatory tone, the document largely validates these criticisms via facts and analysis, and then proposes extensive recommendations for change. 11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. mortgage originations.

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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

Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013). 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008).