Affordable Housing Institute : US

How a couple of years can change things!
 
In real estate development, wise developers always heed Brutus’s advice:
 

Not that I loved eminent domain less, but that I loved New London more
 
There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows […]

As I detailed earlier this year in The Production Paradox, the very same local bodies that aggressively resist injection of proposed affordable housing into their community come to see existing affordable housing as an important community asset, so much so that they feel they should have a right to step in and buy any affordable […]

[Continued from Part 1]
 
Kelo came about as a result of a brilliantly orchestrated multi-year strategy by a small advocacy group, the Institute For Justice.  For fifteen years they’ve worked on takings matters, first in regulatory takings — First English, Nollan, Palazzolo, and Tahoe-Sierra – with efforts that have largely failed.
 
They’ve cherry-picked plaintiffs with great […]

Last Thursday evening, Jerold S. Kayden, co-chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, after an introduction by Professor Rick Peiser (head of the GSD’s Real Estate Academic Initiative), gave a fascinating and cogently argued hour-plus talk on eminent domain for economic development (ED4ED) as seen through the lens […]