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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)

Together, parts 1 and 2 of the analysis are essential to understand the FHFA Report and how its proposed reforms are most definitely needed. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 billion for fiscal 2024. 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. See [link]. [25]

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The academic literature has tended to not differentiate between hard and soft infrastructure, but instead focuses on the definition of types of facilities, focusing on differences in type of space and programming. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Cultural infrastructure is both hard and soft. s Black arts scene ," Post ).