Nixon Peabody LLP

Um, Sheppard Mullin is an AM Law fifty firm that's a member of TerraLex.

Nixon Peabody, RPC in England, um, other firms all around the world.

So they are-- So it doesn't mean small.

It just means they've chosen to remain independent, and they have, you know, we, we have a very strong vetting process.

Well, welcome back to the Public Money Pod, a production of the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

We are proudly sponsored by DebtBook, Nixon Peabody, the Government Finance Officers Association, BAM Mutual, Odyssey Advisors, and MuniPro.

I'm Justin Marlowe, joined as always by my intrepid co-host, purveyor of long stories short, bona fide fiscal policy expert, Liz Farmer.

Liz, welcome back.

Cool.

The Public Money Pod is a production of the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

This season, our sponsors are BAM Mutual, Odyssey Advisors, MuniPro, DebtBook, Nixon Peabody, and the Government Finance Officers Association.

Our producer this season is Kapita Rawat.

And I think there's a lot of reforms and restorals that we need to make in regard to programming that really speaks to affordability of essentials.

Deborah Van Ammerongen, a policy advisor for affordable housing and real estate Nixon Peabody, says the Road to Housing Act will get rid of some regulatory obstacles to the production and preservation of affordable housing.

Van Ammerongen says certain federal programs, such as the Build America, Buy America Act, or BABA, require all iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be produced in the U.S., which can limit and delay housing production.

It has made affordable housing production really challenging because a lot of the things that you need to buy to build a building are not American made.

[Instrumental music plays] Jerry Leone was the local DA who, years later, took on the case.

Today, he's a partner in the law firm Nixon Peabody.

There was forensic evidence, but it wasn't really meaningful because it, you couldn't tie it to anyone in particular.

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The Public Money Pot is a production of the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

This season, our sponsors are BAM Mutual, Odyssey Advisors, MuniPro, DebtBook, Nixon Peabody, and the Government Finance Officers Association.

Our producer this season is Kapita Rawat.

You can learn more about the Center and its work at our website, munifinance.uchicago.edu. That's munifinance.uchicago.edu. You can learn more about Liz Farmer's work at her substack, Long Story Short.