Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Jan 12, Dec 11.] By:David A. Smith All housing starts with the micro, and February featured three stories that illustrate micro-markets in action, starting with the deflating history that people you thought were your friends now see you as just a charitable benefactor, in Rent as social [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Well the farmer said to his wife “Honey, what do you think about that? The old boll weevll done made a nest In my brand new Stetson hat, And it’s full of holes, It’s full of holes. By October, [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Then the farmer took the boll weevil, Put him in the hot sand, And the boll weevil said to the farmer, “Well, you are treating me like a man. It’ll be my home, I’ll have a home Yesterday’s post covered a decade of [...]
By: David A. Smith Well, the boll weevil is a little black bug Come from Mexico they say Well he come all the way to Texas He was lookin for a place to stay Just lookin’ for a home, He was lookin’ for a home – The Boll Weevil Song In this extended [...]
By: David A. Smith Having by now written extensively on China, I’ve become convinced that three mutually reinforcing phenomena underlie its real estate and affordable housing challenges: 1. Rapid economic development driving rapid urbanization. 2. A dysfunctional land-and-local-government system that is a money factory. 3. Weak eminent-domain rights and a coercive government. [...]
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