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Implications and Geography of Office to Housing Conversions

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Office to residential conversions are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide affordable housing in New York City. In their “ Making New York Work for Everyone ” plan, released in January, Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul expressed eagerness to build more housing in New York City’s business districts after COVID.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many shifted to take out operations. Restaurants are still closing in 2023. Are there children in the house? After decades of increasing consumption of prepared meals, to the point where more than 50% of dollars spent on food was out of home, more people cooked their meals out of necessity. Some were good at it, many sucked.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The third is preserving housing. The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right.