Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Earlier this year, as we saw yesterday via this New York Times story, the Atlanta Housing Authority has accomplished an impressive feat: it ended a 73-year policy detour by tearing down the last of its original Depression-era public housing, not because it wanted to exit [...]
When seeking to house the poor, we have two macro-level choices on assistance-basing:
We know that’s the goal, which way do we do it?
1. Place-based. Build quality apartments and move people in to those apartments.
2. People-based. Give people subsidy that enables them to make effective choice and find apartments in [...]
Once before, I posted seriously that you are what you live in:
I has a haddock
In Jungian dream interpretation, the house is the self:
A house in a dream generally speaks of one’s psychological house, the house of the “soul.” We often see different homes that we’ve lived in. Ask yourself, if the home [...]
To make housing affordable, why don’t we lower its costs, using mass production?
“A car that ordinary Americans can afford.”
Henry Ford with his Model T
For nearly a century, that thesis has appealed to automotive titans, of whom the latest is from India, as reported in the Financial [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s exploration of the changing appraisal world, using an interesting Wall Street Journal article, we’d identified the intrinsic challenge of appraisal – having to simulate a forward-looking market by using exclusively backward-looking evidence from past sales. Called upon to appraise a pending sale, the [...]
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