Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
As we saw yesterday, using as our text a protracted City Journal editorial essay by Nicole Gelinas, when eminent domain is used for economic development (ED4ED) with a private developer as the implementing party, the potential for mischief is simply enormous – because the law of economic gravity [...]
By: David A. Smith
Is blight, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?
Houses to be condemned to make way for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Look blighted to you?
Or is blight just a planner’s word for a city’s natural messiness?
Does this look blighted to you?
Though the question is metaphysical, the answer is anything but. On that [...]
By: David A. Smith
While housing is immovable, jobs and people move, and where people live in one house and work in another, they must commute between the two, mustn’t they?
RDP houses, Soweto … and jobs are ninety minutes away
As reported in The New York Times, this is often more contentious than it should be:
SOWETO, [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Continuing the recap of December’s post, during December we looked globally (Dubai’s shadow bankruptcy) and locally (New York City’s public toilets). Gotham City, the cradle of American apartments, also served as the setting for an Experiment in urban micro-living: Part 1, the pluses, and Part 2, the minuses:
It’s [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Previous Months In Review available here: Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
When the history of our global credit crunch is written, the last two weeks in December will be seen as an outbreak – the Patient [...]
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