Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 

 
Yesterday’s entry looked at my five favorite posts from 2005:
February, 2005: The four kinds of money
May, 2005: Slums are economically rational
June, 2005: Government is a factory
June, 2005: The Law of the Observant Herd
November, 2005: L’horloge Orange
 
Today covers 2006 and 2007.
 
February, 2006: Greenspan’s last testament:
 
Unlike the typical financial institution, which is as […]

“Holmes talks on housing in blogger malarkeyQuick witty sallies with captions so snarkyLong-winded essays about anythingThese are a few of the AHI things”
 
Teachers are supposed to like all their pupils equally.  Parents will cut their hand off rather than admit they have a favored child.  Bloggers are likewise supposed to embrace all their posts, each […]

Pull out the linchpin and it comes apart
 
Which is it to be, housing or urbanization?
The tension constantly crops up.  HUD, for instance, is the department of Housing and Urban Development  – two ideas combined in one acronym.  In the UK, the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships may yet combine (in 2009), because one handles housing, […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
So far we’ve seen, via a lengthy exposition in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that some property’s are legally obligated to remain as LIHTC affordable, yet are in a zombie interval where there is no penalty for failing to comply.  That makes them prime candidates to be sold from the more experienced […]

Those of us with long experience in affordable housing work from the presumption that not only does every property have a regulator, every regulator has some form of potential enforcement powers.

“Enforcement Powers?  Oh, bee-have, baby!”
 
Yet, as explored in depth in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram investigative article, there’s a class of affordable owners for whom established […]