Affordable Housing Institute : US

 [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday I described some basic insights from my two days in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject of WS&H: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
 

It’s good for you, and good for the world
 
[For more context, see my seven-part exploration of the economics of […]

Two days in the workshop
 
During June, I spent two days of vacation allowance (”it is well known that you have an unusual sense of fun,” as an Army buddy says to T. E. Lawrence early in the film) in London, participating as one of about thirty practitioners in a Gates Foundation roundtable on the subject […]

About a month back, a friend of mine working on housing and microfinance sent me a link to a Time Magazine article with the provocative title, Microfinance: Women Being Cheated?
 
As microfinance moves more and more into the mainstream of the banking world, is some of its original mission getting lost in the shuffle?
 

Notice how […]

 
 
Author’s note: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the last of science fiction’s original Big Three, died yesterday at the age of 90.  Three weeks ago, I was in Colombo, where Clarke lived, and in the very brief period when I wasn’t working with the Slum Dwellers International folks, several colleagues and I strolled to dinner at […]

Making cities work will be the greatest demographic challenge of the twenty-first century.

 
It’s taken me about four months — since Rockefeller’s urban symposium — to figure this out, and get a glimmer of what it means for all of us.
 
Last July, I had the privilege and unbelievable intellectual pleasure of participating in Week 1 of […]