Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post began with the happy ending – eight new homes, two of which are affordable and all eight of which will count as affordable, being developed in bucolic Hingham, Massachusetts, as reported by Jessica Bartlett (who’s covered these developments from the beginning) in a [...]
By:David A. Smith As the purpose of laws and money (the two products of our government factories) is to reshape ecosystems and hence to reorient and change market participation behavior, they need to be judged not principally at inception but when the ecosystem has been remade and is in equilibrium, with the ecosystem’s creatures [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post used a New York Post (October 19, 2012) story and many other sources to explore New York City’s Operation Clean Halls program, under which rental landlords give permission for NYPD officers to conduct floor-to-roof patrols through their properties, and to challenge anyone who [...]
By:David A. Smith F x S = k: The product of Freedom and Security is a constant. Larry Niven, Niven’s Laws Whose stoop, whose lobby, whose right to stop? Janeia Sandiford outside her building Would you rather be free or be safe? That question lies at the policy heart, if not the [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: May 12, Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Unfortunately, not all houses house families, and housing that has too long been vacant of aspirant families or civilly-minded empty nesters can become a convenient shell for hermit [...]
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