Affordable Housing Institute : US

“A non-profit is a for-profit joined at the hip with a foundation whose grantee is itself.”
 

We share common goals
 
This phrase popped out when I was talking a while back with a friend of mine who works, as I do, with a particular non-profit for whom we both share great fondness but whose professionalism sometimes gives […]

 Regarding Henry Hudson Townhouses,
 

Little did he know that he would soon have named for him …
 

A highway
 

And an affordable housing property
 
my post a few days ago observed, some properties need to go somewhere to die; in Henry Hudson’s case, developer Evergreen Communities began tearing down buildings, and excavating to regrade the site (to deal […]

My post a few days ago observed, regarding Henry Hudson Townhouses, that some properties are more costly to fix.  Because my for-profit company has been working on Henry Hudson for four years, and is even now helping the buyer with the new subsidy reconfiguration, we’ve got photographs that demonstrate the problems.
 
Henry Hudson, as Cher memorably […]

Truth, Plato posited, is perfection: ideas are more real than things, and the world we see is but a dim and watery reflection of the perfect, crystalline reality.  Every object has its Platonic ideal, the one true form from which all its earthly expressions take their nature, and of which every earthy object is merely […]

He’ll go …
 

… from the town that loved him …
 

… to where the money is …
 
Last week, I irritatedly deconstructed a three-part New York Times clucking hatchet job on Countrywide Financial, the nation’s largest independent mortgage broker.  As I chronicled in Get Out Your Hatchets, Parts 1, 2, and 3, the Times was feverishly […]