Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
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Around the world, three kinds of footballs …
… comes a tale of contract renegotiation with useful metaphoric lessons about the challenges of harnessing the rogue critter homo developerus into the business of delivering long-term affordable housing, and about the use (and limitations on use) [...]
No sooner had the credit-taking begun for the House’s 65-5 report-out of a GSE regulatory bill (to hear the Washington trade associations tell out, each of them single-handedly changed the course of history) than it was matched by the virtually parallel carping about exactly the same legislation:< ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
The Wall Street Journal, [...]
To understand the cacophony emerging from the Beltway word factory, you must realize that most legislation is written by Ouija board,
All too often, Congress says “good bye.”
… with everyone pressing as hard as they can on the statutory planchette
… in hopes of shoving it more their way than someone else’s. With all that opposing [...]
Just for fun, a quickie: from the Boston Globe, a helpful (and funny) guide to translate broker-speak into English …
Standard Realtor purchase and sale form, in triplicate
… with nuggets like these:
Must see: The outside may be ugly and the location bad, but the inside is nice.
Motivated seller: Make an offer. The seller is eager [...]
Care for a little meandering journey into unusual housing configurations? A little fable that makes a very modern point? Even if it does go quite far afield to do so?
What does constitute a home, anyhow? And what makes it not just livable but appealing?
Much of what makes housing appealing in the short term is [...]
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