Recent hits
For those of you new to the blog, here are some popular areas to check out:
- 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.
“I wish we had blogs back in the Fifties!”
I’ve been consistently covering several major issues, among them:
- Prescriptions for New New Orleans , Parts 1 and 2, culminates a lengthy series of posts dealing with reinventing the city.
- Fannie Mae’s awfully big advantages lists — hey, you figure it out! — and helps interpret the GSE regulatory reform proposals.
- L’horloge orange diagnoses the French riots and their linkages to housing and European urban development.
Among these are lighter posts on two missing acres, hulk sweet hulk, and the Heisenberg funding uncertainty principle.
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