Affordable Housing Institute : US

Finance rests on the twin pillars of verifiable information and executable property rights, and both in turn require that property, income, and economic activity all operate in sight of the law.

That’s the main thesis advanced by Madeline Albright and Hernando de Soto, co-chairs of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, in a […]

How to fix French urban policy?
 
 
 
As car torchings taper off due among other things to a substantially increased police presence …
 
 
The chart is out of date: just under 10,000 cars torched but a continuing downward trend 
 
… President Chirac’s ninety-day extension of the state of emergency has bought the French government a brief respite — but to […]

[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday]
 
D.        Why it works
 
Inclusionary zoning is popular, and spreading: among the states and cities (most of them progressive) that have adopted or are adopting some variant are Boulder CO, Burlington VT, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, New York City, San Diego, and Santa Cruz CA.  It’s jumped the pond as well, in […]

In many previous posts I’ve alluded favorably to the concept of inclusionary zoning. As one of the two truly innovative affordable housing resources invented in the last thirty years (the other being investment tax credits, the purest and most effective expression of soft equity), it deserves its own exposition, using as a case […]