Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
In yesterday’s post featuring a well-titled New York Times story, we focused mainly on the upside of premarital homebuying – how it tends to precipitate the decision to marry.
Honey … I guess we’ve got to get married
Since it does, policy makers like to incentive the buying of [...]
By: David A. Smith
So good is the New York Times’s headline for this story – adapted from Christopher Marlowe – that I cannot improve upon it:
Come live with me and be my Love
And we will all the pleasures prove
– Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare’s contemporary and competitor
So intertwined with our notions of family are our feelings about housing [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, riffing off a thought-provoking Harvard Business Review op-ed by Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, we envisioned the composition of a Financial Invention Review Board (FIRB), and bestowed upon it hypothetical powers.
“That’s a lot of powers!”
Creating a new entity and bestowing upon it such far-reaching powers will [...]
By: David A. Smith
Before we unleash a new financial drug on the world, might it require some clinical field trials? That question lies behind a fascinating Harvard Business Review op-ed by of all people and places, Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories:
What can you do in a democracy when you rely on the private sector [...]
By: David A. Smith
If virtue is its own reward, can an AHI post change a law?
One blog post = one wing flap?
Though I would never claim such a thing, Dr. Zhong Yi Tong, principal analyst of the Washington DC homeownership tax credit, traces a direct link between a July, 2003 AHI report and the [...]
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