Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] After two days of posting demonstrating the utter failure of NYCHA’s command-and-control ass-and-elbows approach to crisis management, reported by the New York Times (December 10, 2012), there is a bright story about community networks, self-organized and almost spontaneously evolving, as [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Ten days after superstorm Sandy, as we saw in yesterday’s post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was claiming, as reported in this exhaustive New York Times (December 10, 2012) chronicle, that all of NYCHA’s public housing properties would have power within a few days: [...]
By:David A. Smith Before the Federal government bestows untold billions on New York City for its recovery from Sandy, should it not ask if New York City is deserving of such bounty? Volunteers deliver food and inquire about specific needs among residents of the Red Hook Houses on November 16, nearly three weeks [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By:David A. Smith As the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Ike approached, with the Galveston Housing Authority having decided to partner with a private developer (McCormack Baron) to rebuild a brand-new HOPE VI development on the site where stood four public housing [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith As we saw in Part 1 and Part 2, three and a half years after Hurricane Ike totaled four Galveston public housing properties, only forty homes had been rebuilt, and the housing authority had given up on two issues. Family [...]
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