Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1] Yesterday’s post on matchmaking in China, using an absorbing article in the New York Times (March 10, 2013) (channeling China Daily three years earlier), brought us two demographic realities: China’s wealth has been booming, leading to a widening Gini coefficient (haves and have-nots) and China has [...]
By:David A. Smith So bound up are we by our place of habitation (you are what you live in) that we use abode as a proxy for family status (household!), for social status (“they bought a McMansion“), for family configuration (“we’re moving in together”), and for health status (“we’re moving Mom to a nursing [...]
By:David A. Smith When a government is bereft of ideas to solve a social problem, it tosses the problem to the private markets; when it is bereft of money, it mandates that someone else pay for the solution. [Governments' responses are so predictable because government is a factory that produces only two [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] In yesterday’s post, using a good compilation story on the science fiction Web site IO9 (October 3, 2012), we explored the demographic consequences of over three decades of China’s ‘one-child policy’ and its resulting massive oversupply of men, and how it is now coming to [...]
By: David A. Smith I used to think that real estate was a society’s longest-lived asset, and therefore that the most important elements of public policy were those affecting property development – but now I realize there’s a longer-lived asset, whose public-policy impacts are even greater: Better hope he’s a boy That [...]
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