Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
The amazing race starts here
In yesterday’s post, we followed the Phoenix police (via a horrifying Wall Street Journal article), as they intercepted a human smuggling ring funneling illegal immigrants on the northbound flyway into the jobs of America.
Finding a way in is only the beginning
Essential to this value chain is conveniently [...]
Essential to the tradecraft of espionage is the dead drop. When Person A has something to convey to Person B without making direct contact, or even necessarily knowing who Person B is, the parties can use a dead drop. A pre-specified location – a tree bole, a fake rock on the front porch, a sneaker [...]
In yesterday’s blog post, we heard from Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham, whose his mid-April Gleaner column describes his successful housing development, Old Harbour Glades, that has apparently replaced “the bad lands of Succaba Settlement”:
“Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town”
His summary of how it was done, and [...]
Allow Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham the voice of pride that shines through his mid-April column in The Gleaner as he describes his successful housing development:
Building hope through housing
Jamaican housing is stratified. Uptown erects gated communities while downtown erects settlements at the gates. Some settlers provide valuable services to the gated, while [...]
If we want to make housing affordable, shouldn’t we be looking at inexpensive construction materials? That’s the premise of a short Climate Progress article, Shipping containers provide affordable housing, from the Center for American Progress’s “It’s Easy Being Green” series.
There’s an emerging and innovative solution to the environmental, economic, and housing concerns we face around [...]
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