Affordable Housing Institute : US

If an economist is a person who is baffled because he cannot explain why people don’t walk up escalators, is then a demographer a person who cannot satisfy himself that more bedrooms mean more babies?  As reported in The New York Times:
 

For the first time in 35 years, America’s total fertility rate — the estimated […]

[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 ]
 
In our examination of Harvard doctoral candidate Laura Tach’s remarkable findings that in HOPE VI properties, incumbent holdovers do not mix with newcomers, largely because the newcomers see things as improved from the past whereas newcomers see the same things as the past continuing into the present.
 

“The future becomes […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post started with the question of residents’ perceptions of a neighborhood change, particularly when it undergoes comprehensive redevelopment as in HOPE VI.  Do people see the changes?  How do they interpret what they see?
 

HOPE VI: Orchard Gardens, Boston, with the new home-style houses in the foreground
 
To begin with, it’s hard […]

 
“I am sure that you inquired your way merely in order that you might see him.”
“Not him.”
“What then?”
“The knees of his trousers.”
“ And what did you see?”
“What I expected to see.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
 
When it comes to urban neighborhoods, do we see them as they are, or how we imagine them to […]

[A complete set of 2007 Month In Reviews available here:  Dec 07, Nov 07, Oct 07, Sep 07, Aug 07, Jul 07, Jun 07, May 07,  Apr 07, Mar 07, Feb 07, Jan 07.]

 
A New Year is a time of resolution and initiatives, and I began January with Predictions for 2008, among which were these […]