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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs.

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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)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design. But is this argument valid? Also, the 0.10 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7]

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.