Month: September, 2009

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 2, housing policy and finance are national

30 September, 2009 (11:29) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
  

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Continuing our review of August’s posts, we saw in yesterday’s Part 1 that housing is local, because the property cannot move.  But housing finance and policy are far from [...]

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 1, housing is local

29 September, 2009 (10:21) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
With the capital markets stunned into lassitude through repeated bludgeoning with new legislative acronyms, and Washington consumed with an infinite-regressive loop in which the words ‘health care’ are added to every conversation, I [...]

AHI’s World Habitat Day Event: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery

28 September, 2009 (10:24) | Ecosystems, MEEs, Markets, Research, Theory, UN Habitat, World Habitat Day | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
As part of the multi-day World Habitat Day activities, AHI, along with the National Housing Conference and the Housing Partnership Network, will be sponsoring a presentation and panel discussion on a topic that we think has great relevance, both in the Global South and back home in America.
 

Being hosted in Washington for [...]

Borderline behavior

25 September, 2009 (12:12) | Humor, Massachusetts, Politics, Regulation, Taxation, Theory | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
Just as bad facts make for bad law, bad laws make for bad behavior and bad administration.  Nowhere are these contradictions more visible than when adjacent jurisdictions that have a shared interest in macroeconomic health think they can get away with boundary exploitation by taxing more on our side of the fence [...]

The mad experimenters: Part 2, I must have known it all along

24 September, 2009 (09:27) | Capital markets, Policy, Subprime, TARP, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Yesterday we saw infallible proof of ‘green shoots’ in the economy – officials taking credit for something.  Although the credit-taking may be premature – but hey, it is the political vaporware that keeps on refreshing – that we are still alive to apportion credit means we succeeded in [...]