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To use AI tools effectively, local leaders must optimize documents and information for AI, implement guardrails, and rely on human expertise to evaluate risks and benefits.
A new resource for pay for success practitioners Whether you’re just curious about pay for success financing or a seasoned stakeholder, our new suite of tools and resources can help guide you.A new forum for fresh thinking on housing finance reform Eight years after the GSEs were placed into conservatorship, the conversation about their future is stuck. We have invited several voices to offer ideas for a path forward.The housing bust hit middle-aged former homeowners hardest Foreclosures, low credit scores, negative public records, and debt in collections plague middle-aged former homeowners at high rates.How governments can shift innovation risk through pay for success Through pay for success deals, risk for non- or under-performance is essentially shifted to external funders and places governments in an enviable position of paying only for outcomes achieved.Do governments care about risk? When it comes to risk, governments either bear all of it or won’t fund a program. The nuances of risk, financing, and leveraging capital are completely lost.Should the FBI be able to hack your smartphone? Even if the FBI uses third-party technology to access Syed Farook’s phone, Apple will develop stronger security measures on the next iPhone and this debate will happen again.