Category: Employment

Homeless and Hungary: Part 2, how hard to rise

8 May, 2012 (10:57) | Budapest, Ecosystem, Employment, Homelessness, Housing, Hungary, Innovations, Policy, Supportive housing |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   Yesterday’s post on the mushrooming of homelessness in Budapest, using a credulous National Public Radio (April 6, 2012) story and a slightly more detailed December, 2011 op-ed (in Georgia font), published in The Observers – France 24, introduced us to unemployed construction worker Zoltan Szarka, [...]

Homeless and Hungary: Part 1, how easy to fall

7 May, 2012 (11:04) | Budapest, Ecosystem, Employment, Homelessness, Housing, Hungary, Innovations, Policy, Supportive housing, Uncategorized |

By:David A. Smith   Homelessness is a condition, and vagrancy is a decision, a distinction that escaped National Public Radio (April 6, 2012), and the challenges can be seen better a December, 2011 op-ed (in Georgia font), published in The Observers – France 24, by homeless advocate Ballint Vojtonovszki:   Hungary’s new anti-vagrancy laws — [...]

Twenty-first Century Okies

21 June, 2010 (09:42) | Cities, Demographics, Employment, Housing, Migration, US News |

By: David A. Smith   Americans are the most mobile people in history, as far as I know – moving to opportunity and in the process making new cities.     Go warm, wet, wealthy and West, young man   We move when we need to, and when there is temporary housing we can occupy, [...]