Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
While housing is immovable, jobs and people move, and where people live in one house and work in another, they must commute between the two, mustn’t they?
RDP houses, Soweto … and jobs are ninety minutes away
As reported in The New York Times, this is often more contentious than it should be:
SOWETO, [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
As we continue reviewing where urban Indians live (a companion to my previous two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation), and where they will live in the future, we started at the bottom, where the poor are making their own housing and communities entirely [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Does Does it matter where they live if they all go to the same school?
In yesterday’s post laying out a typology of where urban Indians live – a companion to my previous two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation – we started from the bottom up, looking initially at [...]
By: David A. Smith
Where do urban Indians live? In almost every configuration and tenure imaginable, from living in ramshackle sticks-and-tents to Texas-style-subdivisions, with everything in between.
Tents in the foreground, gated subdivision in the background: Ahmedabad
A little while back, returning from my three-week trip to northern India, I posted a two-part snapshot of India’s housing situation, [...]
[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 [...]
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