Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Yesterday’s post, taking as its source text a lengthy and thoughtful essay by Alan Ehrenhalt in The New Republic, followed the enrichment of cities as the world urbanizes in this century of cities.
With wealth come other benefits. Wealthy cities are cleaner. They are also safer:
Nor, in general, does the scourge of urban life in the [...]
As the world urbanizes, in the century of cities, cities are becoming richer – and as they do, other beneficial things are happening, as explained in a lengthy and thoughtful essay by Alan Ehrenhalt in The New Republic:
Thirty years ago, the mayor of Chicago was unseated by a snowstorm. A blizzard in January of 1979 [...]
Yesterday’s post on my experience teaching a brand-new course, Mortgages for the Poor; An Overview of Products and Supporting Infrastructure at the world-famous Boulder Microfinance Training Program (MFT), brought us to the point of wanting to follow the customer.
Whoever gets the customer first, wins!
The MFI customer needs and wants a housing-finance product, because traditional microfinance [...]
Somewhere in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein describes his intellectual hero Professor Bernardo de la Paz working as an itinerant teacher on the Moon, teaching anything to anybody, by reading up furiously and staying a few weeks ahead of his syllabus. It was with something not entirely dissimilar that I put together, and [...]
“Lieutenant,” said Zondi, “with respect, there is white man’s rubbish, and there is black man’s rubbish – and the poorer the black man, the bigger is the difference. A boiler boy, boss, is a very poor man indeed.”
– James McClure, The Song Dog, 1991, page 211
Few countries show greater contrasts than South Africa, and with [...]
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