Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
What to do with unproductive acreage? Plow it under – turn the soil into fallow ground, put the nutrients back into the earth.
Better to mulch it before the scavengers take everything
Among the many ways land is unique as an asset class is that its physical holding costs are zero – it need not be maintained. [...]
Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
For two posts now we’ve been following, via the Town Manager’s April 28, 2009 Report to Town Council (pdf) in Woodside, California, the eight-year saga of patient homeowner Steve Jobs, who is merely seeking to do what 99.9% of American would think an inalienable right, namely [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, via the Town Manager’s April 28, 2009 Report to Town Council (pdf) in Woodside, California, we met patient homeowner Steve Jobs, who has for eight years been seeking to demolish a property he owns and plainly regards as a white elephant, a rambling 17,000-square foot Spanish Colonial Revival [...]
Can Mephistopheles be thwarted?
“Can you believe the nerve of Steve Jobs?”
“What’d he do?”
“Moves into the neighborhood, immediately announces he intends to demolish a lovely 6,000 square foot house so he can build a rambling anachronistic 17,000 square foot house, three times as large.”
“No!”
“The old house was invisible in the landscape; the new one’s going to [...]
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