Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Now we know that 87 Linden Street, where Binland Lee died in the April 28 fire, was way over-occupied, because that was in the unstated but manifest interest of both landlord and residents. As I’ve observed elsewhere, in any [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the tragic death of Binland Lee, in her attic room in an overcrowded student rental, dealt with the fire’s facts – and if that were all to the story, it would simply be a tragic incident. But everything is connected to everything [...]
By:David A. Smith Tragedy exposes an ecosystem’s weaknesses. A rowdy college party, a lit cigarette, an overcrowded student house, a remote and small-scale landlord, informal subdivisions and excess occupancy, and a building inspection system that gives the illusion of enforcement. Combine them and a young woman is dead. Binland Lee, BU senior … [...]
By: David A. Smith Doctors bury their mistakes. Developers drive by theirs daily. An urban pile of concrete no one can love: Charlesview in Allston Remarkably, some properties get resurrected — if, that is, they have the blessing of a politically fantastic location, worth a fortune to a nearby rich global university [...]
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