Affordable Housing Institute : US

Somewhere in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein describes his intellectual hero Professor Bernardo de la Paz working as an itinerant teacher on the Moon, teaching anything to anybody, by reading up furiously and staying a few weeks ahead of his syllabus.  It was with something not entirely dissimilar that I put together, and […]

Yesterday’s post about the prejudices against rental naturally invites the question, what is true about rental?

A.         Rental is always disfavored in political resources. 
 
You wouldn’t find the answers in a 1922 booklet by M. W. Folsom, “The Facts about Home Owning“, from A Home of Your Own.
 

Rental always wishes it got as much political love as […]

Throughout my professional career, I’ve dealt with a curious prejudice – against rental housing generally, and against affordable rental in particular.
 

 
In country after country, situation after situation, I’ve found that when people think of housing, they instinctively equate it with homeownership, and when making distinctions, ownership is seen as good, rental as bad.  A great […]

If you do something innovative, you should win an award, no? 

I’d like to thank the Academy for creating awards so I can win one!
 
Henry Hudson Townhouses, the property so badly built it had to go somewhere to die, has been reborn as Village Green Apartments, and is up for Best Preservation of the Year […]

 
As we watch the US housing and capital markets struggle to find their equilibrium, there’s no question we are experiencing a worldwide phenomenon – and even allowing for the parochial lenses through which Americans receive news of other people’s markets, I think it’s clear that however much disturbance we are facing in the US markets, […]