Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
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Though housing is the output of an enormously complex, ever-changing, hugely capitalized value chain, unlike other abstract capital-markets products like Credit Default Swaps, we all connect to it because we live in its [...]
Once before, I posted seriously that you are what you live in:
I has a haddock
In Jungian dream interpretation, the house is the self:
A house in a dream generally speaks of one’s psychological house, the house of the “soul.” We often see different homes that we’ve lived in. Ask yourself, if the home [...]
To make housing affordable, why don’t we lower its costs, using mass production?
“A car that ordinary Americans can afford.”
Henry Ford with his Model T
For nearly a century, that thesis has appealed to automotive titans, of whom the latest is from India, as reported in the Financial [...]
If slums disappear only through conflagration (natural or man-made) or by assimilation into the formal city, then we will need to take existing informal housing and gradually formalize it.
Because you are what you live in, urbanization requires formality:
But as cities imply increasing physical density (more [...]
In yesterday’s blog post, we heard from Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham, whose his mid-April Gleaner column describes his successful housing development, Old Harbour Glades, that has apparently replaced “the bad lands of Succaba Settlement”:
“Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town”
His summary of how it was done, and [...]
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