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Brooklyn Law School

December 13, 2016

Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup

By Robert Engelke

  • According to an announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the government is granting more than $132 million total to neighborhoods in Boston, Denver, St. Louis, Louisville, and Camden as part of HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.
  • Mark Lamster, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design studying urban planning, wrote an open letter to Carson on how to solve the housing crisis in The Dallas Morning News.
  • Freddie Mac is now rolling out a pilot program that matches nonprofits with socially conscious investors.
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