Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, I expended several hundred words in a possibly-unnecessary exercise – intellectually demolishing the feasibility of architectural speculations, presented in the Boston Globe, that I believe even their proponents would concede are whimsical fantasies, never intended to exist beyond CAD/CAM screens and jpegs.
They represent an [...]
By: David A. Smith
“So this unemployed architect walks into a bar and says, ‘our erections can last for years’.”
Okay, maybe not precisely that cheesily, but something similarly whimsical had to have been in the minds of Boston Globe editors when they sent out an offer to under-employed architects, What would you do to [...]
By: David A. Smith
Statistics are not stories – but then again, stories are not statistics, and statistics represent the totality of real life.
We choose to remember our highlights and lowlights, our moments of intensity – and we choose to forget anything that is drab, commonplace, routine, or redolent of the profane. So, for [...]
By: David A. Smith
… is affordability?
Am I up when you’re down?
When the homeownership rate drops, what happens to apartment occupancy? As illustrated by this Wall Street Journal article, the answer depends on two factors:
1. Why homeownership rates are dropping
2. How long it has been since the homeownership drop began
Start with a fact.
Start with [...]
By: David A. Smith
Two years ago, two years after I’d called the market top and just as the subprime mess was beginning to break, in the form of New Century’s bankruptcy and problems alleged at Countrywide, I stuck up for Angelo Mozilo – or more precisely, I questioned the New York Times’s putative expose of [...]
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