Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Among the many services performed by blue-ribbon panels is the essential political sacrifice of the deniable trial balloon.
“I’ve already testified three times, I don’t know the chairman!”
An elected official pondering the political calculus of an action can always convene a gaggle of wise heads, solicit their views, and then observe the political fallout from [...]
The Brookings Institution has released a major fact-heavy study (3.6 Meg link in .pdf) that, although titled After the Storm, is really an exquisite dissection of the urban dysfunctionality of Old New Orleans, the below-sea-level city that is gone and will never come again.
[Previous posts on New Orleans here, here, here, here, here, here, [...]
A tree dying of rot appears sturdy, even as its trunk hollows out … until one night there is a storm, and with a crack, it topples. Similarly, when an agency is consistently hollowed out over a quarter-century, it trundles along doing its business, presiding over the appearance of normalcy, until something happens.
Does this [...]
The brigadier general was biting his lip.
Does this mean I’ll grow up to be a brigadier general?
I was merrily outlining what I thought was a rather nifty and flexible approach to recapitalizing a particular Army post’s affordable housing inventory. Nothing too strenuous, you understand — something well within their execution capacity. Yet this commander [...]
Even as the IMF continues not to expel Robert Mugabe’s slow-genocidal dictatorship, I found myself the other day returning to shantytown demolition because of a Boston Globe story that took place literally under the wheels of our cars:
State Police and Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) [Respective owners of the land -- Ed.] crews, accompanied [...]
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