Chula Vista’s Residential Abandoned Property Program, an Innovations in American Government Finalist, presented before the National Selection Committee in May 2009. The program addresses the adverse conditions and blight caused by vacant, abandoned, and financially distressed residential properties, by affirmatively placing responsibility for security and maintenance on mortgage holders. … HKS Harvard Kennedy School award ash institute IAG innovation innovations American government …

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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — James B. Lockhart III, vice chairman of WL Ross & Co. and the former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about the outlook for the U.S. housing market.
Lockhart also discusses the outlook for the commercial real estate market and the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (Source: Bloomberg)

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