Category: Camden
11 January, 2013 (10:00) | Argentina, Camden, China, Euro, Foreclosure, Global news, Haiti, Homeless, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Non-Profits, NYCHA, Paris, Public housing, Spain, US News |
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] As we saw in yesterday’s Part 1, affordable housing and urban troubles abound globally, but we need look no further than our front stoop to find [...]
10 January, 2013 (10:00) | Argentina, Camden, China, Euro, Foreclosure, Global news, Haiti, Homeless, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Non-Profits, NYCHA, Paris, Public housing, Spain, US News |
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith I promise to stop using my blackberry! Housing is both global and local; both abstract and intensely human – and in November, our posts covered all four corners of housing’s world. [...]
7 November, 2012 (16:58) | Camden, Cities, Government, Innovations, Local issues, Municipal bankruptcy, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Police, property taxes, US News |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, using a New York Times (September 28, 2012) story filled with discouraging and damning details, brought us suffering Camden, New Jersey, and its collapse of its current old-school unionized police force model: The police in Camden — population 77,000 — are already [...]
7 November, 2012 (16:56) | Camden, Cities, Government, Innovations, Local issues, Municipal bankruptcy, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Police, property taxes, US News |
By:David A. Smith We speak of failed states, and how they become crime capitals, but there are failed cities too, and when a city fails, it loses the capacity to keep alive its essential functions, which leads to mother-of-invention necessity, as shown in this story from the New York Times (September 28, 2012): [...]