Affordable Housing Institute : US

A booming economy is good, right? 
 

“Oh, Clark, you’re so manly for opening that casino.”
 
Rising tide lifts all boats? 
 

 
Not always, or not if you are thoughtless about it.  For the world’s best place for thoughtlessness, via the Boston Globe, let’s visit that uniquely American Sin City:
 
LAS VEGAS — Celine Dion is waxing romantic at […]

[Continued from Part 1]
 
In Part 1, I dealt with statutes and regulations.  Once they are in place, we move to the next two levels: administrative guidance and case decisions.
 
3.         Administrative guidance
 
Now that our hypothetical program is up and running, there’s one more level of detail to prescribe: administrative guidance.  These are issued whenever the administering […]

When we talk about a housing program, what do we mean? Where and how is a program defined?

“There are four levels of program definition than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Hamlet, as published for comment

“Alas, poor Yorick, I blogged him, Horatio.”

A program is defined in four levels:

Laws, big-picture rules and […]

Last week, as reported by the National Housing Conference’s extremely helpful Washington Wire
 
On December 8, the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on “Options in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” David Garratt, Acting Director of the Recovery Division of FEMA served as the sole witness. […]

How do you proceed in a decision vacuum?  Who decides when no one wants to decide?
 

 
A few weeks back, I posted a two-part prescription for building the New New Orleans, one key element of which was this:
 
So let’s say what seems abundantly obvious: everything below sea level is economically unsalvageable.  Nothing below sea level should […]