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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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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)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. These are your most affordable models.

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