Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Every now and then, somebody does it right.
In the bold action of a man confident of his politics and his policy, Florida governor Charlie Crist has pulled the trigger on what looks like a long-term masterstroke. As reported in The Washington Post:
In the stillness is the act …
In an ambitious maneuver to help restore [...]
“Lieutenant,” said Zondi, “with respect, there is white man’s rubbish, and there is black man’s rubbish – and the poorer the black man, the bigger is the difference. A boiler boy, boss, is a very poor man indeed.”
– James McClure, The Song Dog, 1991, page 211
Few countries show greater contrasts than South Africa, and with [...]
On June 5, at a well-attended and highly anticipated Istanbul panel held as part of the Annual Summit of the Turkish national Real Estate Association (GYODER), I delivered a speech summarizing our six-month ‘country assessment’ of Turkey’s affordable housing ecosystem.
It sounds better in English
Our goal was to examine Turkey’s affordable housing financial environment today, identify [...]
There are times when being right is no consolation, it merely makes you angry.
Sometimes you wish you hadn’t been so right
A year ago, in a post entitled 3% altruistic, I wrote about the FHA’s ‘non-profit-donated’ down-payment program
It sounds like a misprint — a non-profit that gives low-income borrowers money for the down payment on [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, using a New York Times article as a springboard, we examined Humpty Dumpty’s question of value: what does value mean, and who decides that it means that?
“Everything’s coming up roses”
For reasons I listed yesterday, the assets are often valued by people who have a vast vested interest in seeing them [...]
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