Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
When I was a very little boy, my grandmother’s house, an unbelievably long are-we-there-yet? place six hours’ drive down the Merritt Parkway, the Wilbur Cross, and the Garden State Parkway, was a magical place.
Bridges inspired by Robert Moses to keep out trucks
It had stucco walls, a screened-in back porch, and railroad tracks just behind, and [...]
Because the home encases a household, changes in housing consumption usually are caused by changes in family status — marriage, children, emptying the nest, downsizing, moving to congregate living.
Might we have the causality backwards?
What do you mean, I have a clear view of where I’ve been!
Might the pressures of housing cost trigger household [...]
The other day (while reading William Rosen’s intriguing history, Justinian’s Flea), I came across what I think is the world’s first homeownership subsidy, the panes aedium of Constantine I and his capital Constantinople:
A man and the city he envisioned: Constantine and Constantinople
Though only a few hundred of the city’s private residences could be called mansions, [...]
Yesterday we were introduced to Christopher Leinberger’s anticipatory obituary of McMansions in his Atlantic essay in wish-fulfillment schadenfreude, “The Next Slum?” with its harrowing subtitle:
“The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.”
Man, and I thought the suburbs were dangerous
(Note the handy [...]
Recently the Atlantic monthly published an essay in wish-fulfillment schadenfreude,
You mean no AHI blog posts for me?
“The Next Slum?” whose premise — that McMansion buyers get their bad-taste comeuppance — doubtless appealed to the editors’ sensibilities.
The universal definition of a McMansion is a house noticeably larger than we’d want to live in
“The subprime [...]
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