Category: AHI activities

“Housing the Future,” a BBC World Debate being shown August 1 and 2, 2009

31 July, 2009 (09:13) | AHI activities, Slums, Symposia, UN Habitat, Urbanization, Wilton Park | 1 comment

 
Update, August 4, 2009:

The BBC Web site now has the program. 

·         Click here: http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeMultiFeature.aspx?id=196
·         Then click, “Also click here to watch in Broadband” – it should pop up and just run
As a point of information, here are five times I speak: 5:00, 12:30, 16:30, 37:00, and 40:30. 

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On August [...]

Month in Review May 2009

2 July, 2009 (11:20) | AHI activities, Configuration, Housing, MEEs, Mobile homes, Month in review, Slums, Zoning and land use | No comments

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

Though housing is the output of an enormously complex, ever-changing, hugely capitalized value chain, unlike other abstract capital-markets products like Credit Default Swaps, we all connect to it because we live in its [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 2b, services and activities

27 May, 2009 (09:50) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 2a.]
[A previous trio, Part 1a , Part 1b , and Part 1c, covered the rules of engagement with clients.]
 
Holmes sat for some time in silent thought. He had lit the oldest and foulest of his pipes.“I am not clear yet what you want me to do in this matter, Mr. [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 2a, services and activities

26 May, 2009 (09:22) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1a, Part 1b, and Part 1c, which covered the rules of engagement with clients.]
 
The blog, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
 
In my three decades of experience accompanying my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1c, Rules of engagement

8 May, 2009 (09:49) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1b and the preceding Part 1a.]
 

Not entirely devoid of interest 
 

“You are engaged,” said I; “perhaps I interrupt you.”“Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one”–he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat–“but [...]