Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
A while back, I posted in Dreamers versus Plumbers about the comprehensive failure of the climate-control system at Harvard’s Otto Hall. The building is being demolished only seventeen years after its completion, because the ultra-sophisticated humidity-management system was too space-age for its own good.
“Missed it by that much.”
As I wrote in that post:
Architects should [...]
“Imagine, one day we’ll write blog posts on devices like this”
“What’s a blog, honey?”
Long ago (1977), when I was just beginning to learn the business, our company was doing a repositioning and workout of a troubled affordable property in North Cambridge (as it happened, less than half a mile from my grotty rent-controlled apartment), which [...]
[On Patriots’ Day, which is a holiday in Boston – as it should be! –
Finding a decent apartment in Boston is a marathon, not a sprint
–my quirky sense of humor suggests that we should highlight the
Housing endures. It endures as a physical space, and as a cultural artifact, and as an economic asset. It’s [...]
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Dripping
“Rates, rates, who cares about rates? I’ll get you the money.”
— A mortgage broker friend of mine, 1982, when a mortgage went for 18%
What becomes…
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