Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
After a very quiet fall for Fannie Mae, a recent Washington Post article reported a sound of distant thunder:
Fannie Mae Finds More Errors, Names New CFO
Fannie Mae yesterday disclosed additional accounting errors, adding to the list of problems the mortgage finance company must sort through as it tries to untangle a nearly $11 billion financial [...]
How to fix French urban policy?
As car torchings taper off due among other things to a substantially increased police presence …
The chart is out of date: just under 10,000 cars torched but a continuing downward trend
… President Chirac’s ninety-day extension of the state of emergency has bought the French government a brief respite — but to [...]
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Essential posts present big-picture big ideas on affordable housing, and feature Sherlock Holmes on affordable housing finance.
Primer posts deal with the building blocks of affordable housing finance, fundamentals like the cost-value gap and the economic dynamics of haggling.
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[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday]
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in Glasgow and London, in Paris and Lyon and Marseille,
in Milan and Brussels and Malmo and everywhere else. < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
Council housing and what it replaced, Liverpool
Council blocks, Edinburgh
Some went up, some went out, but [...]
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