Affordable Housing Institute : US

As if it were a surprise, the Boston Globe reports on a remarkably predictable fact:
 
Massachusetts has created new housing more slowly than almost any other state in the nation over the past four years, a key factor behind the state’s soaring home prices.
 
The Census reported today that the number of housing units in the state […]

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 […]

This year the doldrums had moved farther north than usual, and the ship of state was in them, well in ….   Day after day she lay there with her head all round the compass, inanimate, her committees handing limp, sometimes rolling so that most bloggers were sick all over again, rolling so heavy … and […]

How does one formalize residency?  Is the only path judicial, or might there also be an economic path?  A fascinating short Boston Globe article raises a series of provocative questions about what our immigration policy is, and perhaps what it should be.
 
 
The green card: permanent US residency
 
As do so many changes, this one begins with […]

Now and then I refer to ’sustainable affordable housing.’  Since the term implies more than its mere words state, it’s worth a definition. 
 

Sustainable affordable housing
 
·         Housing.  The housing must be market-competitive quality that can blend in to its neighborhood.  Thus we are explicitly excluding substandard locations, configurations, constructions, maintenance.  Such ’structures’ — to use […]