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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

May 7, 2015

Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-Up

By Serenna McCloud

Enterprise Community Partners issued a side by side comparison of the four housing finance reform bills currently in congress many of which seek to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. NYU’s Furman Center released its annual Report: State of New York City’s … Continue reading

May 5, 2015

Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up

By Serenna McCloud

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) approved its fiscal year (FY) 2016 appropriations bill. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has adopted a final rule requiring the Federal Home Loan Banks (Banks) and the Office of Finance to include … Continue reading

Connecting Housing to Health

By David Reiss

The Center for Housing Policy’s latest issue of Insights from Housing Policy Research featured a research summary on The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Health: the authors examined recent research on the various ways in which the production, rehabilitation, or … Continue reading