Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
As part of the multi-day World Habitat Day activities, AHI, along with the National Housing Conference and the Housing Partnership Network, will be sponsoring a presentation and panel discussion on a topic that we think has great relevance, both in the Global South and back home in America.
Being hosted in Washington for [...]
By: David Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]
So far, in tracing the housing finance ecosystem by examining three value chain (connections by which transactions occur), we covered housing providers finding housing consumers (Part 1), and the baton pass of recognized ownership/ occupancy rights (Part 2).
Now for the third key question.
We [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s exploration, we suggested that if you want to understand a housing finance ecosystem and lack the statistics or reference resources to compile a proper survey, you can do well by conducting a simpler ‘physical exam.’
Is that all I am to you, just a pretty johnny?
Any [...]
By: David A. Smith
If you get a new doctor, what’s the first thing he or she does – after establishing how you or your insurance will pay, of course? The physical exam.
We make them cold so that we know you’re dead if you don’t flinch
When we don’t know how a system [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 5 and the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.]
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust. We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in [...]
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