Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008. The trend continued for the next several years.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). We did this in 2008 or 2009. Use the daypart model, account for seasons, city-wide events that you may or may not be able to leverage, and organize it by program area -- food, arts, etc.

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