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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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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

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1. It's a good letter.

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

In this, the second episode of this series, we’re looking at two related problems that come up over and over again: Employees who leave their jobs but retain access to sensitive government technology systems. For those individuals, the cutoff only occurred between a year and 25 months after they left government, according to the audit.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

As illustrated below, even the fundamental right to gather in worship can be somewhat restricted by the government (i.e., 2012, 2019 (2017). As of April 24, 2020, there have been close to 900,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19 in America and over 50,000 COVID-19 related deaths. 8, 2020) (last visited Apr.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Supporting government voting registration and resource platforms through high demand. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.

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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)

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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