Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from Part 1 yesterday}
 
In yesterday’s thrilling blog post, worthy of Ripping Yarns, we saw how the World Bank structured its investment to reduce the risk of Chadian officials immediately absconding with the developmental funds.
 
 
“You can’t pull that on the World Bank, you two-bit honcho!”
  
And behold! The pipeline was built, and the oil (and […]

Scarcely were the pixels of my finished three-part post on enforcement theory glowing on the monitors of global leaders throughout the world …

… than what should appear but precisely a geopolitical example of the dilemmas of pay-before-performance (PBP) enforcement. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this, courtesy of the Washington Post:

Six […]

[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 in previous posts]

In reviewing the topical and entertaining case study of Terrell Owens, I have sought to demonstrate that:

When capital pays an entrepreneur before the entrepreneur performs,
capital must be prepared to enforce its contractual provisions to the letter.

The Philadelphia Eagles (equivalent to the capital party), […]

Here, in chronological order, are all my postings on New Orleans: Old, Future, and New:
 
30-Aug-05: Hurricanes, insurance, and affordable housing
1-Sep-05: Hurricanes: insurance aftermath
1-Sep-05: Housing and Hurricane Katrina
2-Sep-05: Modularity, another benefit of mobile homes
5-Sep-05: Building New New Orleans
8-Sep-05: New New Orleans, Tycho and St. Paul’s
12-Sep-05: New New Orleans: the pessimistic view
13-Sep-05: Future New Orleans: the optimistic […]

If tax credits are a good idea in the US, why aren’t they used more places?  And where they’re not used, shouldn’t they be introduced?
 

With a tax credit, nice coat of paint, make good, you could fix that up.
 
I’ve thought about this a great deal, and believe there are three main reasons:
 

As soft equity, tax […]