Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
Last week in Washington, as part of the World Habitat Day activities, AHI – in partnership with the National Housing Conference as host and the Housing Partnership Network as a co-sponsor – issued and discussed the Extract of our report, Mission Entrepreneurial Entities: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery.
It’s all about [...]
Manila, yesterday
Sonia Fadraigo, Federation leader and Board member of AHI’s client Slum Dwellers International wrote this morning:
Federation not OK. Badly hit. Biggest disaster ever. Don’t know where to start. Still gathering info as to how many died. Thousands of Fed members lost their houses – washed out by the floods. We need help. Thank you [...]
We just want to help you, here in the employment zone
As the world globalizes information – which also implies globalizing capital – we observe a mobility of labor unprecedented in global history. With that labor mobility comes the ebb and flow of people and money – people moving to cities to earn money, then sending [...]
If slums disappear only through conflagration (natural or man-made) or by assimilation into the formal city, then we will need to take existing informal housing and gradually formalize it.
Because you are what you live in, urbanization requires formality:
But as cities imply increasing physical density (more [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
It takes two whole days’ worth of posts to document, in excruciating detail, just how asinine was the grandstanding taking place in Washington last week as first Ed Liddy and then every TARP recipient was skewered by an outraged Congressional mob.
Citizens united for shibboleths!
As I keep listing the wrongheadedness, I’ve [...]
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