Affordable Housing Institute : US

For the first time in nearly twenty years, affordable housing is rapidly rising on the political agenda.  And why?  Because for twenty years we’ve been living through a housing policy inversion, in which the normal idea flow is reversed — and the consequences are unbelievably profound, obscuring the critical trends until just recently.
 

Policy ideas used to […]

How would you house 145,000,000 additional elderly people in less than twenty years?
As reported some time back in the Boston Globe, that problem now confronts the world’s most populous nation, China.

CHONGQING, CHINA — One of the world’s oldest nations is getting older. China’s population of 1.3 billion is graying rapidly and the country, which […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 

Affordable housing blogging is not pretty
 
Yesterday we saw there’s a micro-trend to create micro-homes, as small as a single room, which is the most fundamental unit of housing. 
 
And, uh, a cop pulls me over. And he makes me get out, he looks at me and he says, “Heyyy … are […]

Echoing Steve Martin’s insanely brilliant “Let’s get small” bit from Saturday Night Live:
 

I do take one drug now - for fun - and, maybe you’ve heard of it, it’s a new thing, I don’t know if you have or not. It’s a new thing, it makes you small.

[Indicates size with […]

If someone offered you free additional information that might be relevant to a critical financial decision, wouldn’t you want it? 
 

You don’t want to know what I’m thinking
 
Say you were a global institutional investor planning to buy securities issued by a major bank in a foreign country.  Similarly, if you were thinking of investing in […]