Category: Homelessness
16 November, 2012 (10:35) | Government, Homelessness, Housing, Innovations, Local issues, Paris, Regulation, Rooming Houses, Supportive housing |
By:David A. Smith Homelessness is a failure; on that everyone can agree. But whose is the failure, and whose the responsibility to address it? The question lies, unasked, underneath a surprisingly snippy Economist article: Jean, a 31-year-old homeless man at Canal Saint-Martin, Paris Down and out in Paris The inventor of [...]
20 July, 2012 (09:21) | Bankruptcy, China, Global news, Greece, Homelessness, Housing, Innovations, LIBOR, Month in review, US News, Zoning |
[Previous Months in Review available here: Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12] [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we saw yesterday in Part 1 of our May review, China is growing Too soon old and Too late rich, but of course, where there are old people with money, there [...]
19 July, 2012 (10:19) | Bankruptcy, China, Global news, Greece, Homelessness, Housing, Innovations, LIBOR, Month in review, US News, Zoning |
[Previous Months in Review available here: Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12] By:David A. Smith All gloom and no fun makes blog a dull read, so during May I offered a cheerful look at a disruptive pastime in Interoperability creates innovation: Just slide the pieces around Programs are designed in splendid [...]
18 July, 2012 (09:31) | Homelessness, Housing, Los Angeles, program design, social impact bonds, social programs, Supportive housing, US News |
By:David A. Smith When it comes to people whom we wish to help with government or charitable resources so that they can change their lives, should we make them prove it first or should we give it first? Is this a good idea? That question lies underneath the design choices within many [...]
8 May, 2012 (10:57) | Budapest, Ecosystem, Employment, Homelessness, Housing, Hungary, Innovations, Policy, Supportive housing |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post on the mushrooming of homelessness in Budapest, using a credulous National Public Radio (April 6, 2012) story and a slightly more detailed December, 2011 op-ed (in Georgia font), published in The Observers – France 24, introduced us to unemployed construction worker Zoltan Szarka, [...]