Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Over at Affordable Housing Finance, Martha Bridegam is providing a frequently updated blog with news, links, and commentary on many housing topics. Well worth visiting.
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In a previous post, I laid out three data paradoxes:
Information is more broadly valuable when it is freely available.
Useful data is costly to assemble.
There is no viable business model for public data dissemination.
“Doctor, if I stop reading blogs, will I live?”
“No.”
Given these harsh realities, how do we create useful data? Who pays for something that [...]
In a public-policy context, data availability and reliability is a paradox:
“I can’t believe he’s starting off with that hoary pun.”
In affordable housing, as in many areas of public policy, effective program design depends on having quality information available to policy-makers, and that leads us to the first data paradox:
“What do you look like without the [...]
My sadistic high school gym teacher liked his charges to hurt. In wrestling, which he occasionally made us do, his goal seemed to be to create pain (which he perhaps thought toughening). Blood was best, but failing blood sounds of effort and anguish. Confronted with these rules, my best friend and I agreed to reciprocity: [...]
My wife Nancy is particular about food, so when we are on vacation in strange cities (or even more of a challenge, strange countries), she is always searching for good places for dinner. (Lunch we have learned to assemble from grocery stores, boulangeries, bodegas, and all-you-can-pilfer-eat breakfast buffets as required.) So when on holiday, Nancy [...]
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