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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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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008. ” The Pre-2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac F&F were relatively small prior to the Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis of 1989, having only a single-digit market share of funding U.S.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This resulted in the government taking them over in September 2008 and injecting $187B of taxpayer money to keep them solvent. After being in the 0.20

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The importance of chronicling presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

Seeking to preserve and strengthen this venerated tradition, the Partnership for Public Service has worked since 2008 to support transition teams and federal agencies in their work to execute the immense undertaking of sharing knowledge and preparing thousands of new federal leaders to help a new president succeed.

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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)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. Nina Berman , Homeland Security Advisory Billboard, Country Club Hills, IL, 2008, from the Homeland series.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, in mid-2008, the market began to lose confidence in the implied guarantee given its informal and unwritten nature. This included: Developing an updated capital requirement broadly consistent with post-2008 bank regulatory requirements. [9] government (i.e., trillion amount.