Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday I described some basic insights from my two days in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject of WS&H: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
It’s good for you, and good for the world
[For more context, see my seven-part exploration of the economics of [...]
Two days in the workshop
During June, I spent two days of vacation allowance (”it is well known that you have an unusual sense of fun,” as an Army buddy says to T. E. Lawrence early in the film) in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post, expositing on the theory of change that AHI received a $1,000,000 grant to explore, began with housing as the catalyst for improving urban environments, especially in the global south.
Housing is the world’s biggest property asset class. In developed nations, it’s most people’s biggest investment, source of retirement savings, [...]
Blog readers know that a while back, AHI received a $1,000,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a two-year research effort, with a modest goal:
Change the world’s understanding of what slums socioeconomically are, and therefore change how benefactor entities can help improve slums and cities in the global south. Do so by [...]
[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
Two days ago we introduced Builders Of Hope in Raleigh, North Carolina, which (as profiled in the Wall Street Journal) lifts up solid but economically obsolescent houses from their ample and now-too-valuable sites, and relocates them elsewhere on smaller, less valuable sites, along the way converting what [...]
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