Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Like many public goods, affordable housing is something we want … but want someone else to pay for. So the manner by which government raises and spends money for affordable housing programs has a lot to do with how they are received politically, and therefore how much long-term impact they have. < ?xml:namespace prefix =”" [...]
In any public-private partnership, the government will seek to accomplish certain tangible public policy goals through the imperfect mechanisms of motivating the private sector. In such a program, the government regulator will be seeking to measure the private partner’s performance, and then to use the resulting measures to incentivizes (reward and punish) the partner’s performance.< [...]
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At yesterday’s hearing on tightening regulation of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, of all the issues that might draw debate — how tightly to regulate the companies’ balance sheets, [...]
Winds of change ruffle Congress’s topsails:
USS Constitution — two hundred years old, still in commission!
Sailing from Boston to Marblehead, July, 1997
with the Senate’s introduction of its answer to the House’s proposed GSE legislation:
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) yesterday released legislation that could force mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to [...]
The United Nations — or more properly, its urban development arm UN Habitat — has done the world a service by looking crime in the face and calling it a crime:
U.N. Slams Zimbabwe on Slum Destruction
UNITED NATIONS — Zimbabwe’s destruction of urban slums is a “disastrous venture” that has left 700,000 people without homes [...]
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