Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Tuesday night, November 4, 2008
Dear Mr. President-Elect:
Congratulations, you’ve stepped into the most powerful job in the world.
Or have you?
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called “walking.” George W. Bush
Because political capital is a commodity of value only so long as one is in office, a shrewd [...]
A while back, I posted in Dreamers versus Plumbers about the comprehensive failure of the climate-control system at Harvard’s Otto Hall. The building is being demolished only seventeen years after its completion, because the ultra-sophisticated humidity-management system was too space-age for its own good.
“Missed it by that much.”
As I wrote in that post:
Architects should [...]
“Imagine, one day we’ll write blog posts on devices like this”
“What’s a blog, honey?”
Long ago (1977), when I was just beginning to learn the business, our company was doing a repositioning and workout of a troubled affordable property in North Cambridge (as it happened, less than half a mile from my grotty rent-controlled apartment), which [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post introduced the quintessential consultancy, the Ghostbusters, and illustrated their business and marketing brilliance.
I owe my success entirely to my time not studying in college
We continue with their rules of being a successful consultant:
E. Often your consulting will involve housing.
[Louis is being chased by a demon dog] Louis: [frightened] [...]
In addition to being a research and educational institution, AHI is a consultancy – we are specialists brought in to solve particular large, complex problems (or rather, to help people solve the problems themselves, since like other consultants we go away when the job is done).
Can we possibly restructure this financing, kemo sabe?
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