Affordable Housing Institute : US

 
Once upon a time, people looked to Washington for affordable housing ideas.  With the waning of the Federal government, innovation shifted to the provinces. 
 
Now, at least briefly, Washington is a hive of innovation.
 

A hive of lawmaking?
 
Not on Capitol Hill, however; at City Hall, as the policy inversion continues, with local government outpacing and out-piloting […]

The larger an organization, the greater its need for clearly understood rules of engagement; without such rules, the organization all too often works at cross purposes to itself.  Recognizing this problem, one and a half millennia ago Saint Benedict codified what he considered appropriate monastic behavior in his famous Rule. 
 

Rule number one is …
 
To […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 

Yesterday we saw that revitalization of new urbanist cities created a physically safer and intellectually more stimulating environment that is now attracting the urban empty-nesters. As one moves down the income pyramid, the first entrants beyond the purely profit-oriented are non-profits:

Last year, Pacific Retirement Services, a nonprofit organization […]

The older we get, the more physical movement puts us at risk. A broken hip can be a death sentence, as my 88-year-old aunt discovered two years ago. Sprightly and independent, if occasionally fearful, she never recovered, wasting away after a futile and valiant attempt to recover her spirit. Her mind remained […]

Last year, intrigued by an article in New York magazine, I wrote a three-part blog post about Atlantic Yards, the multi-billion-dollar Brooklyn mixed-use property being developed by Forest City Ratner that, if completed as now contemplated, will house an arena, retail and office, condos, market apartments, and some affordable.
 

Mr. Ratner wants to bring Brooklyn […]