Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith As China ages at warp speed, old notions of intergenerational family structure are giving way to economic pragmatism, and as shown in a recent article from the Economist (April 21, 2012), that is creating intriguing business opportunities that might just change the political ecosystem: Social problem or housing opportunity? [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Too soon old; too late smart. – Gordon Livingston In yesterday’s Part 1, using as source text a quantitative and frightening demographic projection presented in the Economist, we saw that China’s population is aging at an unprecedented and virtually unimaginable rate, as a result [...]
By:David A. Smith If youth knew; if age could. – Sigmund Freud Things get bad when a society’s net economic consumers outnumber its net economic producers, for then living standards have to drop – and that’s the problem facing China’s economy, China’s housing requirements, even as the nation rushes up the economic and [...]
By: David A. Smith If you build it, they will rent. What do you think, Rico, time to buy? It may not be at the price justifying the construction cost; it may not make the original investment decision a wise one. But they will rent, at a market-clearing price, and as [...]
By: David A. Smith … is affordability? Am I up when you’re down? When the homeownership rate drops, what happens to apartment occupancy? As illustrated by this Wall Street Journal article, the answer depends on two factors: 1. Why homeownership rates are dropping 2. How long it has been since the [...]
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