Affordable Housing Institute : US

What with my work with Slum Dwellers International, I’ve been spending inordinate time thinking about SDI’s members, which are federations of local savings co-operatives, and hearing descriptions of what they will do with money (as we’re calling it in SDI lingo, a Spend) if they get it from SDI’s in-development International Urban Poor Development Fund.    […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]  
Yesterday, in search of the answer to whether the sweeping reforms proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson might be enacted any time soon, I posed the question: is the current catastrophe big enough?
 

Paste one on the nearest financial crisis
 
We saw how Shay’s Rebellion led to the Constitution, the Panic of 1907 to […]

The last few weeks have revealed gaping fissures in our financial liquidity system. 
 

What do you mean, we outran our boundaries?
 
Will they lead to meaningful reforms, such as the sweeping reforms proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson?
 

As treasury Secretary, I pray they do
 
It’s evident to me they should be – with any luck I’ll write the […]

[Continued from yesterday’s part 1]
 
Yesterday I enumerated two of the four observational questions:
 
How do people buy and sell homes?
Where does the financing for homes come from?
 
Those two questions deal with static supply and demand — people changing chairs. 
 

You move out, I move in?
 
Now we have to tackle the changes in supply and demand: why […]

When one encounters a new ecosystem, how do you come to understand it? 
 

Just push the AHI blog button
 
The question’s been on my mind lately.  Currently I’m the non-faculty advisor (in the lingo, they call me the ‘client’) to a half-dozen graduate students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government who, for their Policy Analysis Exercise […]