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What’s a Capital Stack and How Does it Work?

CRA Today

Junior, or subordinated, debt is usually not secured by specific assets and will have less priority for repayment than senior debt claims in the event of default.”. These funds are the last to get repaid in the event of a default. Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. Was this not a disaster?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. Master Plan contract, 2019. We did this in 2008 or 2009. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.

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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. Since 2019, issued security volume has stayed high while service level performance has increased and AWS run costs have decreased.

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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

I will say that adaptive management is a lot like my old "Action Planning" approach, which uses the design method, and dates back to 2008 and observation of best practice then. Transformational Projects Action Planning. Action Planning is a framework with five inter-connected components: 1. Design Method rather than Rational Planning 2.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes the point that because hospital planning is in large part focused on accommodating cars in parking, etc.,