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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Meehan, 2014). Local government support is crucial to successful CLTs, and strategies vary between municipalities (Davis and Jacobus 2008). A few local governments have granted eminent domain takings power to CLT partners to acquire dilapidated adjacent land (Meehan 2014). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008.

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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. trillion of assets) and are the most well-known and studied GSEs. billion for fiscal 2024. More political than commercial.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So it's the "entertainment city" idea but extending it to many more elements, making work and other spaces "more fun," engaging and active. The FT article mentions the Prudential Center in Boston, calling attention to how the first two floors of the building are set up to be open and connected and engaging-- shopping and food.

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A READER'S GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE

Barrett & Greene

Geert Bouckaert and John Halligan (2008). Davenport , (2008). Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Managing Performance: Robert Behn (2014). Performance Frameworks: Alnoor Ebrahim (2019). Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World. Stanford University Press.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014.

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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

Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). Transformational Projects Action Planning. This has been going on since 2000, and finally a better project, albeit ugly as sin, is going forward.

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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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49