Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith Having worked in Egypt multiple times over the last eight years, I have good professional colleagues and friends in Cairo, so I’ve followed attentively the nation’s turmoil after newly elected President Mohammed Morsi started his campaign of grabbing power. Whatever the politics of it (and I’ve been in the Middle East [...]
By:David A. Smith As far as I can tell, dictatorships end in only three ways: internal revolution, aggressive war, or economic collapse from hyperinflation, a theory we are close to testing in Argentina (Washington Post, February 4, 2013), and could possibly come to a crucial test a few months hence in Egypt Reuters (January [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: May 12, Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Unfortunately, not all houses house families, and housing that has too long been vacant of aspirant families or civilly-minded empty nesters can become a convenient shell for hermit [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: May 12, Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] By:David A. Smith In June, we rediscovered that, as anyone knows who’s trolled Facebook or compared an executive’s bio or Web site photo with the reality, what we present is usually more appealing than what we actually [...]
By:David A. Smith Sprouting in the desert: October Gardens townhouses When it comes to understanding affordable housing, nothing substitutes for actually seeing the product, as built, in its location – and so, when I had a free day in Cairo a few weeks back, I naturally enough spent it not crawling through the [...]
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