Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith For the most full-on Monet of reasons (“from far away, it’s okay, but up close it’s a big old mess”), Signapore has imposed a hefty surtax on foreigners buying residential property in their thriving city state. As reported in the Wall Street Journal (January 29, 2013): Singapore’s Housing Tax Hits [...]
By:David A. Smith When a government is bereft of ideas to solve a social problem, it tosses the problem to the private markets; when it is bereft of money, it mandates that someone else pay for the solution. [Governments' responses are so predictable because government is a factory that produces only two [...]
[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 [...]
[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. [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith You thought that was outrageous? Wait ’til you see what we’ve got next! Each time I think the global banking crisis has produced its worst outrageous bilking of the public, another one surfaces [...]
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