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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes. More of that, please."

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

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One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. Before I came up with the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach (" Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced?

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

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I have other pieces about options for funding. -- " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013 suggests a more structured process for identifying funding than an interview published in the Post. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. The first reform they looked at led to increased housing production targets for regions across the state.

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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)

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7] 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7] Also, the 0.10 Also, the 0.10

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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

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept.