AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Common Securitization Solutions (CSS), a joint Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae venture launched in 2013, supports a cornerstone of the American economy: home ownership. trillion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as daily issuance of Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities (UMBS).

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Dave currently serves as a senior advisor for Blackstone Investment Group.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Banner / The Seattle Times) OTOH, it's not just office buildings (" Stress Builds as Office Building Owners and Lenders Haggle Over Debt ," New York Times ), hotels (" Difficulty Securing Financing Halts More Than Half Of U.S. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

E-bike promotion through voucher-based discounts, as some communities are doing, including Salt Lake, might be worth doing by TMDs. -- There should be a program to promote high quality secure bicycle parking in large apartment buildings. -- Bicycle sharing is expanding. Bike theft is a problem in Salt Lake. NYC sponsors(ed?) Car sharing.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. A vestige of the Soviet Union, it was seen by many Ukrainians as more of a nuisance than a benefit.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans. 3 This business model is very complex.

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