November 27, 2013
Reducing The Cost of Affordable Housing Development: Lessons for NYC?
Enterprise and the Urban Land Institute have issued a report, Bending the Cost Curve on Affordable Rental Development: Understanding the Drivers of Cost, that identifies affordable housing development’s “most commonly cited cost drivers, provides a brief overview of their impact … Continue reading
November 27, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 26, 2013
Reiss on Government’s Role in Housing Finance
The Urban Land Institute New York Blog posted Housing Finance Leaders Gather to Discuss the Future of Freddie and Fannie about a recent panel on the housing finance market. It begins, Housing finance industry leaders came together last week to … Continue reading
November 26, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 22, 2013
Reiss on Urban Planning Legacy of the Bloomberg Administration
The BLS Real Estate Society is sponsoring The Zoning and Urban Planning Legacy of the Bloomberg Administration on Monday, November 25th from 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in the Student Lounge on the first floor of Brooklyn Law School, 250 … Continue reading
November 22, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 19, 2013
3 Housing Riddles For De Blasio
I wrote an op ed for Law360,com that was posted today. While it is behind a paywall on Law360, it reads in full as follows: 3 Housing Riddles For De Blasio As Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio is making the transition … Continue reading
November 19, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 18, 2013
Fannie and Freddie in Play?
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP has joined Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Capital Management LLC in seeking to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. News reports indicate that Pershing Square owns about ten percent of the common shares of each … Continue reading
November 18, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 14, 2013
Reiss on Future of Frannie at Urban Land Institute
I will be on an Urban Land Institute panel on November 21st, The Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The panel will seek to shed some more light on the road ahead for the GSEs and their impact on … Continue reading
November 14, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 8, 2013
Reiss on Risk Management
Law360.com interviewed me in Banks Caught In Middle Of Regulators’ Fair-Lending Pursuits (behind a paywall). The article reads in part, Federal and state regulators are increasingly enlisting banks in their pursuit of fair-lending and other violations at payday and auto … Continue reading
November 8, 2013 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
