Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Continuing our occasional series on the fundamentals of property taxation
Part 1 of this series established that aggregate real estate tax rates are set simply to cover the locality’s budget. Budgets vary city by city, and more generally state by state based on cost factors … but then, so do incomes and property values, so on [...]
Where is it legal to discriminate against anyone on the basis of wealth, income, gender, marital status, race, religion, or what kind of evening visitors one entertains? To exclude from the most trivial of reasons, and neither be held accountable nor even be called upon to explain?
Not in America, you might say. That’s illegal, you [...]
Last week Los Angeles gained another distinction I’m sure it could have done without: it’s the homeless capital of America.
Homelessness is widespread in communities in Los Angeles County, including Santa Monica.
At the New York Times reported:
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 -It was not the sort of Chamber of Commerce cheer expected from the chief executive [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1]
Reading Bruegmann, I was reminded of Nancy’s and my visit to Hoh Rain Forest, about which I wrote:
Hoh Rain Forest
Big leaf maple trees form the far overhead canopy, their limbs draped with blankets of epiphytes – small ferns that live on the branches, which they use solely for anchor, living [...]
In a lengthy post Part 1 and Part 2) reviewing Robert Bruegmann’s seminal Sprawl: A Compact History, I promised to return to his tidbits about cities.
Content-rich blogs taste as good as content-free: promise!
From humanity’s earliest civilizations we have imagined the ideal city, sometimes celestial, sometimes architecturally perfect Renaissance:
View of the Ideal City, [...]
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