Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Can Mephistopheles be thwarted?
“Can you believe the nerve of Steve Jobs?”
“What’d he do?”
“Moves into the neighborhood, immediately announces he intends to demolish a lovely 6,000 square foot house so he can build a rambling anachronistic 17,000 square foot house, three times as large.”
“No!”
“The old house was invisible in the landscape; the new one’s going to [...]
[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
Untangling the Washington Post story [...]
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 in the lungs, [...]
I can’t speak but I can guffaw!
At first read, this Telegraph story induces guffaws:
A man whose home was so full of rubbish that he had to build an intricate network of tunnels to get around may have died after losing his way in the labyrinth.
Then it rapidly becomes sobering.
Investigators believe Gordon Stewart, 74, died [...]
In Jungian dream interpretation, the house is the self:
A house in a dream generally speaks of one’s psychological house, the house of the “soul.” We often see different homes that we’ve lived in. Ask yourself, if the home in your dream is a childhood home, or a current home. Each of these may have different [...]
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