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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs now engage in extensive credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions, whereby institutional investors take on portions of their single-family mortgage credit risk. Prior to 2013, when the first CRT transactions were done, this information was kept confidential. [11] Previously, the two companies held onto 100 percent.

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I worked on this 16 years ago. "Metro seeks development partner for Brookland-CUA Metro station"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Most of the development energy in Brookland has been west of the station and railroad tracks, on land owned and redeveloped by Catholic University (" Takoma's Brookland moment: some opposition to apartment development on the WMATA station site ," 2013).

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “To be good in the business of football today — and good to me is not being good one year, but try to sustain it year in and year out — you have to understand economics and you have to understand value,” Kraft said near the end of his team’s almost-magical 2007 season. “I

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Some of these include: reducing citizen estrangement by practicing democratic administration over bureaucratic administration (Durant and Ali 2013); [v] fostering citizen engagement (King and Stivers 1998); facilitating deliberative democracy (Nabatchi 2010); [vi] and creating communities of participation and inclusion (Feldman and Khademian 2007).

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Marginalized peoples and communities are using social media to magnify on-the-ground social movement actions and create collective action.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice. It already engages in various targeted policy subsidies related to its special mission. It might even be reasonable to have fewer than 81 cells given the FHA’s narrower range of borrowers. [24]