Affordable Housing Institute : US

With the violence waning under the heavy sedation of a state of emergency, the French have bought themselves a winter of quiet desperation.  But time is useless … unless one uses it to act.
 
 

Interesting definition of ‘normality’
 
So what is the prescription for fixing France’s bankrupt urban housing policy?
 
 

Paris public housing high-rises
 
Tear them all down.
 

 
Tear down […]

A few weeks back, the Administration made a puzzling move whose deftness is becoming clearer the more I reflect on it.  By tabling a proposal to overhaul the tax code, the Administration has placed many other political players into political zugzwang: whatever they do, the Administration gains.
 
In chess, the German word zugzwang (”compulsion to move”) […]

Just as mathematicians, in solving certain problems, had to invent imaginary numbers, in political calculus one can move beyond political capital and political risk to more rarefied heights with political vaporware.
 

Political vaporware
 
A proposal or trial balloon of possible legislative or programmatic change.
 
It may have nothing behind it, but is intriguing for what it promises and […]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
–Edmund Burke (1790)
 
 
 
A mother and her child walk through what once was her bedroom and is now burning after her house was set on fire by Zimbabwe police at Porta farm in Harare on June 30. (Photo: STR / AFP-Getty […]

 
“Homes are where jobs go to sleep at night.”
– Allan Kingston, CEO, Century Housing (Los Angeles)
 
It’s well known that the year’s busiest travel day is Thanksgiving Eve, as Americans by the millions take to the roads and skies to assemble their extended families in a time-honored ritual:
 
 
Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell
 
Though we associate Thanksgiving with […]