Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Leave it to snarky Gawker to explode another of those urban-homesteading myths so favored by a certain kind of press, and a certain type of author:
Today’s New York Times Page One recession-porn dispatch is so unrelentingly hackneyed that William Shatner ought to read it aloud to bongos.
Who you calling hack-kneed?
And it neglects to mention that [...]
What to do with the homeless? Can we just wish them away?
Just say yes, and an anonymous person vanishes
A moral-philosophy question rattling through cyberspace asks, If you were offered $1,000,000 to make someone disappear, would you?
Happy to make the stain of homelessness vanish?
Actually, as documented in this New York Times article, the cost is much [...]
In America, generally speaking, if you’re homeless you have a problem beyond mere poverty; something about your situation (substance abuse, domestic abuse, mental problems, a physical disability) is wrecking your life.
The crisis of homelessness in Maine has lasted thirty years and resulted in millions of dollars being spent on shelters, emergency services, and corrections [...]
To be a citizen, you have to be visible. To be visible, you have to be locatable within the formal system. Throughout history, that visibility has meant ownership of land or real property. Since time immemorial, citizenship has been connected to land, especially in English common law, running back from the English 1832 Reform Act [...]
The ship is sinking.
Women, children, and credited cast members first
You have lifeboats in the water.
But you have fewer lifeboats than passengers.
We thought they were enough, for the ship could never sink
What do you do?
Get away from the wreck as quickly as possible?
As reported in the Boston Globe, that dilemma confronts Julia Kehoe:
Julia E. Kehoe, [...]
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