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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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)

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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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In particular, the organization’s Foreclosure Response Program—launched in 2008 in direct response to the devastating foreclosure crisis—has proven a resilient model for affordable single-family development. ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, in mid-2008, the market began to lose confidence in the implied guarantee given its informal and unwritten nature. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9] government (i.e., trillion amount.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito. CMS 2008-2010 Data Entrepreneurs’ Synthetic Public Use File (DE-SynPUF) in OMOP Common Data Model managed by AWS. PALSAR-2 ScanSAR CARD4L (L2.2) from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). ASTER L1T Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs managed by Descartes Labs.