Category: Housing tenures

More bedrooms mean more babies

22 February, 2008 (10:28) | Housing tenures, Theory | No comments

If an economist is a person who is baffled because he cannot explain why people don’t walk up escalators, is then a demographer a person who cannot satisfy himself that more bedrooms mean more babies?  As reported in The New York Times:
 

For the first time in 35 years, America’s total fertility rate — the estimated [...]

The homeless magnet

7 November, 2007 (10:14) | Ecosystems, Housing tenures, Los Angeles, Markets, US News | No comments

Now that Los Angeles has acquiesced in a judicial decision forbidding the city from rousting vagrants, will the city become a magnet for America’s homeless? 
 

Desperately seeking Los Angeles
 
As I posted nearly two years ago, Los Angeles is already America’s homeless capital.  Homelessness flourishes in temperate climates and is drawn to cities, whose excess wealth creates [...]

Outside, looking in: structure of the European city, Part 2

11 November, 2005 (10:12) | History, Housing tenures, Other, World news |

[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday]
 
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in Glasgow and London, in Paris and Lyon and Marseille,
in Milan and Brussels and Malmo and everywhere else.  < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />

Council housing and what it replaced, Liverpool
 

Council blocks, Edinburgh
 
Some went up, some went out, but [...]

Outside, looking in: structure of the European city Part 1

10 November, 2005 (10:02) | History, Housing tenures, Other, World news |

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards… Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
– Sun Tzu, The [...]