Date: July 21st, 2005

Public-private partnership

21 July, 2005 (15:50) | Primer Posts |

Popular phrase, popular prospects, but what potential pitfalls?  And more pragmatically:
 
What the heck is it?
 
Experience has proven, more times than necessary, that neither the pure private sector nor the pure public sector reliably produces sustainable affordable housing:
 

The private sector produces slums by simple economic rationality.
The public sector produces slums — more slowly, but often [...]