Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005). Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts. It's hard now to seed retail around office development because of this.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. The 2007 GAO report indicates this has been the historic practice in the title insurance business. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 A non-paywalled summary can be found at: [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated. This claim is simply untrue.

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