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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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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically, prices reached their pre-2008 peak in 2016 Q2 2 and then kept on rising at a strong pace 3 , with many analysts pointing to the shortage of new construction (both single and multi-family) as the major causal reason. percent range in the years prior to 2008, they now average around.50 After being in the 0.20

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

LULC datasets like this provide users with the ability to measure changes over time and inform critical decision makers in governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), finance, and industry who need trustworthy, actionable information about the changing world. The Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease (SEA-AD) Study.

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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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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions. But these are the basic ones.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Proposed routes as of 2019 While the current transit planning efforts are focused on new bus services, long before now, SEPTA should have been moving forward on extending the Broad Street subway line by 1.5 Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground. miles from its current terminus.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

1) Have several, if not all of the four government mortgage agencies, 6 strongly support and subsidize “chattel loans” (i.e., Added up, this means that MH structure-only homeownership is only a pale imitation of true homeownership, and thus brings into question whether it should enjoy major government policy support.

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