Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Not only does the availability and amount of clean water control the size of cities, management of water resources has been a principal driver in advances in technology, law and government, and finance.
The most basic of needs
That idea formed itself as I read, and then re-read, a terrific law article Thirst: A Short History of [...]
Although affordable housing program design is hard, the easiest task is building new housing. Just throw money, and up pop new homes.
Even if they are caprices.
Such, I conclude, will be the practical consequences of the Prince of Wales’s second venture into town creation, Knockroon, a Highland fling as it were, described in a [...]
Yesterday we saw that Youngstown, Ohio, whose population now is half what it was forty years ago, has made an enormous break with its past.
More than 1,000 structures have been demolished so far.
It’s for the greater good
Choosing to cull wasn’t easy. First, Youngstown tried everything else:
For a while, Youngstown, with its population at just [...]
A town is a business that sells quality of life and competes with other towns to attract real estate tax payers. It spends its revenue on infrastructure that enhances quality of life and enables it to attract more workers and real estate tax payers. Some towns are so attractive, relative to their rural competition, that [...]
What with my work with Slum Dwellers International, I’ve been spending inordinate time thinking about SDI’s members, which are federations of local savings co-operatives, and hearing descriptions of what they will do with money (as we’re calling it in SDI lingo, a Spend) if they get it from SDI’s in-development International Urban Poor Development Fund. [...]
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