AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Common Securitization Solutions (CSS), a joint Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae venture launched in 2013, supports a cornerstone of the American economy: home ownership. trillion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as daily issuance of Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities (UMBS).

2013 65

2013 Housing Operations 2019 65

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands. I don't know if some apartment buildings have high quality bike parking. Bike theft is a problem in Salt Lake. Car sharing.

Transportation 96

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Security and public art. Advance security planning is advised.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Events Engagement Magazine 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo of Lollapalooza 2022. Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Security and public art. Advance security planning is advised.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Events Engagement Magazine 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans. 3 This business model is very complex.

Government 52

Government 2008 Housing Implementation 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3

Housing 52

Housing 2020 Advocacy 2016 52