Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post introduced the quintessential consultancy, the Ghostbusters, and illustrated their business and marketing brilliance. 
 

I owe my success entirely to my time not studying in college
 
We continue with their rules of being a successful consultant:
 
E.         Often your consulting will involve housing.
 
[Louis is being chased by a demon dog] Louis: [frightened] […]

In addition to being a research and educational institution, AHI is a consultancy – we are specialists brought in to solve particular large, complex problems (or rather, to help people solve the problems themselves, since like other consultants we go away when the job is done).

Can we possibly restructure this financing, kemo sabe?
 
In the twenty-plus […]

For all their value, words are sometimes traps, because they condense reality into symbols.  As Alfred Korzybski put it in his study of general semantics, The map is not the territory, and however precise our language, we can never be quite sure that the other understood what we were trying to convey. 

The less information conveyed, […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.]
 
As we’ve seen so far in this extended series on the economics of water, since housing is what makes cities, for cities to scale upward, they have to bring infrastructure to their slums.  The Roman emperors, who needed larger capital to administer a […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.]
 
In Part 1 on the economics of water, I claimed that because housing is what makes cities, piping and water management was a precondition of forming cities, and is a controlling variable on successful urbanization in the global south, where the world’s rapidly expanding cities are […]