Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
No rezoning?!?
Even as I keep digging into mobile home recapitalizations, the evidence mounts that they are a critical element of local housing affordability (especially for elderly retirees). As such, the lowly mobile home, once derided as the trailer park of yore, becomes integral to sustaining an income-diversified, tenure-diversified affordable housing local ecosystem.
What then can [...]
Some months back, I posted (in three parts) on Atlantic Yards, the enormous and enormously ambitious mixed-use, mixed-tenure, mixed-income, mixed-finance, mixed-everything complex —
Mix up the uses! Mix up the incomes! Mix up the numbers!
— proposed to rise in Brooklyn. My post triggered first a telephone call and then an extended email exchange with Norman Oder, whose [...]
[Previous Months-in-Review available here: Jan 07; Dec 06, Nov 06, Oct 06]
During February, the fervid pursuit of fair maiden Equity Office reaches feverous pitch, with both Blackstone and Vornado vying to present their credentials to best advantage:
Don’t look at him, look at me.
First we had Vornado raising its bid, Barbarians: selling the sale?, then Blackstone [...]
Mathematics has long had famous ‘unsolved problems.’ Perhaps the most famous is Fermat’s Last Theorem, which Fermat boasted (at least to himself) that he’d knocked off in 1630:
“I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
In fact, it resisted proof for 365 more years. The tantalizing four-color [...]
“How much money can you afford to waste?”
When I’m facilitating a workshop or brainstorming session with a large organization or a government agency, that’s a question I often ask, usually fairly early in the session.
We’re calculating how much we can afford to waste right now
I’m usually met with hesitant glances. Waste? I can hear [...]
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