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

Center for Community Progress

However, to fully understand how this legislation came to pass, and why it is helpful contextually to review the history of land banking and tax foreclosure in Ohio. In the 1970s, Ohio had passed what can be viewed as traditional land bank legislation, which authorized municipalities, counties, and townships to create land banks.

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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)

The GSEs were authorized by congressional legislation to perform a very specific set of activities, primarily focused on providing loans to consumers or businesses for a designated purpose, and mostly related to real estate and housing. the legislation establishing them). A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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Hear from civil servants who have fought workplace discrimination inside and outside of government

Partnership for Public Service

Bush in 2003, and then serving as acting chairman of the EEOC under President Obama from 2009 to 2010, Ishimaru is credited with rebuilding the agency , which had become underfunded and understaffed. Ma, a former senior advisor to Ishimaru, now serves as the EEOC’s director of the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs.

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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)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.

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