Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then.
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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Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 24, 2023
Predatory lending in the leadup to the 2008 mortgage crisis overwhelmingly targeted Black and Brown people who were promised that homeownership was the ticket to building generational wealth. The global financial crisis in 2008 was also a major trigger for many communities.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. We did this in 2008 or 2009. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 29, 2024
As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home. Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). The result is a new set of tasks on the agendas of late modern citizens that enable the creation and continual maintenance of a personally satisfying sense of self—or “personal identity project” (Reynolds, 2008; Giddens, 1991).
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