The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
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). mortgage originations.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 11, 2024
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.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Covid-19 has revealed that the UK civil protection system is inadequate.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. Let us remember that, where foresight should have been exercised, improvisation can all too easily be regarded as negligence.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.
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