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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The Guardian , 5 May 2020.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. " Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. historic architecture 2. historicity and identity (the nexus of people, historic architecture, and urban design) 4.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

million people were displaced from their homes, but the earthquake destroyed more than people and their homes: it dealt a near fatal blow to government. of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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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)

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This is in addition to the fee sometimes varying by product type (e.g.,