Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith From Jamie Holmes, policy analyst at the New America Foundation, published in The New Republic, comes an excellent survey of empirical evidence in favor of what seems a common-sense proposition – that the poorer you are, the less willpower you can summon to change your life, because the more of [...]
By: David A. Smith That the same topic can be simultaneously trivial and tragic, all depending on circumstances is well illustrated by Economist article about public toilets that cannot decide whether to be cheeky or chastising: Flushing away unfairness From the Economist: The shepee, a woman’s pissoir The scene is familiar, [...]
Asthma is an urban disease, possibly affecting as many as one in four urban children, a much higher toxicology rate than in rural areas. So naturally we deduce that something about urban buildings triggers asthmatic responses – but the causes have been much debated until a recent study fingers a likely culprit: Hiding in [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the challenge of mold in housing ended with Paul and Wendy Meng having decided to sue their home’s builder, Drees Company, because the whole family had got sick very shortly after moving in. What six weeks in a moldy house can do to you [...]
When mold first appeared as a new risk a decade ago, I was a skeptic. And grumpy too I’d seen the questionable science of ‘connective tissue disease,’ and radon before that, and the grand-daddy of them all, the asbestos-remediation hysteria. (Yes, asbestosis is a hideous disease, caused by the buildup of insoluble asbestos [...]
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