Affordable Housing Institute : US

Not only is the world urbanizing, so too is America, and as we do, The value of urban land will continue to rise, with consequences that are both logically predictable – Every silver lining has a cloud – and utterly astonishing to those experiencing them, as detailed in this article from The San Francisco Chronicle:
 
It’s […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post laid out as a hypothesis, and then proved as a syllogism, that: 
Urbanization implies Formality

Und it has been proofen!
 

 
In today’s global south, cities expand because slums – whether you call them favelas, gecekondu, shanty towns, squatter settlements, informal settlements, or spontaneous communities – create housing that rapidly outgrows the […]

I had finished up my presentation at GYODER’s Turkish national real estate summit, and was listening to a well-reasoned statement from Faruk Goksu on the necessity for Turkey developing a policy to tackle the formalization of gecekondu (informal housing), when what should have been obvious to me years ago struck me with full force: urbanizing […]

[The original post may be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7.]
 
We saw yesterday that cities grow when they have more clean water, and that increasing water supply means mastering technology, law and government, and finance. It’s almost as if the physical difficulties of […]

Not only does the availability and amount of clean water control the size of cities, management of water resources has been a principal driver in advances in technology, law and government, and finance.
 

The most basic of needs
 
That idea formed itself as I read, and then re-read, a terrific law article Thirst: A Short History of […]