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Month in Review, August 2009: Part 2, housing policy and finance are national

30 September, 2009 (11:29) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
  

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Continuing our review of August’s posts, we saw in yesterday’s Part 1 that housing is local, because the property cannot move.  But housing finance and policy are far from [...]

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 1, housing is local

29 September, 2009 (10:21) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
With the capital markets stunned into lassitude through repeated bludgeoning with new legislative acronyms, and Washington consumed with an infinite-regressive loop in which the words ‘health care’ are added to every conversation, I [...]

Month in Review April 2009: Part 2, hail and farewell

22 May, 2009 (11:06) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

 [Previous Months In Review available here: Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
As we continue reviewing April, the global capital de-leveraging now taking place is having impact at a series of rising steps in the value chain, starting with individual buyers (I was dumb so give me my money back), families (Discreet [...]

Month in Review April 2009: Part 1, the shakeout continues

21 May, 2009 (09:55) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
My blog isn’t the only source of periodic writing. 
 

So much prose, it surfaces in multiple outlets
 
A year into the LIHTC equity markets disruption, over at my for-profit consultancy we published an important piece, Policy Update 74, Rethinking and Re-engineering the LIHTC Value Chain [...]

Month in Review, March 2009: Part 2, the markets’ mending

23 April, 2009 (09:22) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] 
 
[Previous Months In Review available here: Feb 09, Jan 09.]
 
In our review of a very busy month, we turn from how we got into this mess toward how we will get ourselves out, starting with Auctioning our headaches: Part 1, the why, and Part 2, the how:
 
A month ago, I predicted [...]