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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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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) is the nation’s largest land bank, with over 75,000 properties in its inventory as of 2022. Of the more than 15,000 homes sold by the Detroit Land Bank since 2014, about 70% were bought by Detroit residents. Why are there so many land banks in Michigan? What’s next for Michigan land banks?

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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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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. government and its exemption from income taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. 17 Denial of the subsidy.

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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

Over time, as I wrote more about it, I realized it should be applied at multiple scales (" A wrinkle in thinking about the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach: Great public buildings aren't just about design, but what they do ," 2022). (1) Transformational Projects Action Planning. The city did a plan for the area around 2003.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.) And it is a part of #12 in the action points list in the 2014 piece. I hope they read it.)

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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.,