Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
What to do with the homeless? Can we just wish them away?
Just say yes, and an anonymous person vanishes
A moral-philosophy question rattling through cyberspace asks, If you were offered $1,000,000 to make someone disappear, would you?
Happy to make the stain of homelessness vanish?
Actually, as documented in this New York Times article, the cost is much [...]
Previous GBPO may be found here: GBPO 01.]
Continuing our if-the-opportunity-will series of Great Posts By Others (GBPO), here are three more provocative slices of the housing finance world:
Down these mean streets a blogger like Jockin goes
2.1 Business for Development
The site Business For Development [Hat tip: Yousuf Marvi] advertises Martin H. Klein’s book, Poverty Alleviation [...]
Are bad landlords a disease or a symptom? That’s the question tacitly asked by the Boston Globe in a practical and depressing article entitled Sun, sand, and seediness:
From the Boston Globe: dangling light in John Murphy’s cottage
SALISBURY – Light bulbs dangle from sockets fed by fraying wires. Water leaks from an uninsulated ceiling.
[Love that [...]
Because information wants to be free, blogs are all about sharing, so from time to time I’ll post these potpourri columns of Great Posts By Others, featuring thought-provoking posts and our reactions thereto.
We seek out new posts and new inspiration
1.1 Atlantic Yards Report
Ever since I first encountered [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday post, using as our text a New York Times article on the proposed comprehensive slum redevelopment of Kashgar, Xinjiang:
Kashgar, though, is not a typical Chinese city. Chinese security officials consider it a breeding ground for a small but resilient movement of Uighur [...]
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