Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[New New Orleans posting archive here, with updates here, here, here, here, and here.]
In the continuing tri-level (Federal, state, local) leadership vacuum surrounding New New Orleans, the horse race nobody wants to win, there is a tiny movement to the front. As the Times-Picayune reports:
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s proposal to create a housing [...]
From the Guardian (serendipitously named for this piece) comes a great piece of news, the discovery of the oldest continuously occupied human dwelling known:
American archaeologists have made the first discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings since King Tutankhamun’s was uncovered in 1922, debunking the view that there was nothing left [...]
A picaresque detour in our occasional series on real estate taxation:
Previous installments: 1, 2
“Blogging is more or less bunk.”
“Any color you want so long as it’s green.”
– Henry Ford, developer, explaining what type of money he needs.
Because affordable housing always costs money, developers of all stripes rapidly cotton on to any financing source, so [...]
How many room’s of one’s own? We are accustomed to answering “many,” just as we are accustomed to answering “one” to the question, How many households in one home?
Nuclear family, nuclear home
But housing demand is elastic, and just as the upper scale of consumption expands when owners are flush with money, at the other [...]
January was an intellectually busy month:
Happy villagers anticipating AHI blogs
Housing-related new analysis. I offered a gloomy prediction about France (Riots that bloom in the spring), some possibilities of the building of New New Orleans (Hope on the bayou?, Moving on, moving out? and a February postscript, Economic gangrene setting in?), plus an all-too-common developing world [...]
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