Category: Homeownership

Come buy with me and be my love: Part 2, … let’s hope no one puts asunder

5 March, 2010 (11:02) | Homeownership, Housing, Rental, Tenure, US News | No comments

[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 [...]

Come buy with me and be my love: Part 1, whom mortgage has joined …

4 March, 2010 (11:25) | Homeownership, Housing, Rental, Tenure, US News | No comments

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 [...]

Proposing the Financial Invention Review Board: Part 2, requirements

9 February, 2010 (11:36) | Homeownership, Markets, Rental, Subprime, US News | No comments

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 [...]

Proposing the Financial Invention Review Board: Part 1, powers

8 February, 2010 (10:41) | Homeownership, Markets, Rental, Subprime, US News | No comments

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 [...]

Great laws from little blog posts grow

14 January, 2010 (11:43) | Homeownership, Regulation, Soft equity, Tax credits, US News | No comments

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 [...]