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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. 7] Because Congress had set up the GSEs through legislation, the Obama administration believed it was up to Congress to develop revisions to that legislation to eliminate these defects.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Local government support is crucial to successful CLTs, and strategies vary between municipalities (Davis and Jacobus 2008). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008. Working Paper, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy , 2008. 3 (2019): 795-817. How do local governments in these states support CLTs ?

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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)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. 7 Both the capital requirement and the needed level of market return were determined by the FHFA, then under the directorship of Mel Watt 8 (2014 to very early 2019).

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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

There are other forms too (" A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019), like New York City's and the Zoo, Arts, Parks sales tax in Salt Lake County. mill tax for the Detroit Zoo they approved in 2008. Hamilton County, Ohio tried to create one but failed. But these are the basic ones. Conclusion.

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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)

Another source of misleading conclusions, whether intended or not, is based upon selecting the recent pandemic-distorted period of time to compare prices, as seen in a 2021 Washington Post article, 19 where an example from 2019 to 2021, possibly the most rapidly increasing home price period in modern history, 20 is given. ” [link]. [26]

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