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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects. Q3: Why was Congress unable to expeditiously pass legislation to correct those business model defects as a key step to ending conservatorship?

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. “This is a moment of ferment—and experimentation—in land use policy,” writes Noah M.

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