Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Concluded from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith One generation got old One generation got sold This generation got no destination to hold Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers, Woodstock 1969 Jefferson Airplane, Woodstock As we saw yesterday, via a September 13, 2011 New York Times story (supplemented by [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends Joe Cocker, With a Little Help from My Friends, Woodstock 1969 Joe Cocker at Woodstock Yesterday we dug beneath the surface of peace-and-love Woodstock, New York, profiled in a September 13, 2011 New [...]
By: David A. Smith If you can’t beat it, bankrupt it? If you smile at me, I will understand Because that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language – Crosby Still & Nash, Wooden Ships That seems to be the strategy of a diverse coalition of affordable housing opponents, united [...]
By:David A. Smith Just as people need work, people need stress – it’s the antidote to boredom, and the goad that stimulates us to all achievement, and all the rewards that achievement brings. On TV, so it must be true But we need Epicurean stress – enough, but not too much – [...]
By: David A. Smith Having by now written extensively on China, I’ve become convinced that three mutually reinforcing phenomena underlie its real estate and affordable housing challenges: 1. Rapid economic development driving rapid urbanization. 2. A dysfunctional land-and-local-government system that is a money factory. 3. Weak eminent-domain rights and a coercive government. [...]
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