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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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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 this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute.

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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

The new train hall at New Carrollton aims to bind together the development of offices, housing and shops. Gensler/Urban Atlantic). Conclusion. A train hall isn't enough to transform New Carrollton, although I should have included it as a suggestion on the list of actions in the original piece.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Sugar House has some on Highland Drive, by Fairmont Park on 900 East, is adding more cycle tracks on 1300 East and other streets.

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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets. Over its history, NCST has facilitated REO sales on behalf of the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and a number of large banks and mortgage servicers. percent overall.

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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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