Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post followed the steady population decline of southwest Kansas, as profiled in a New York Timesstory of the aptly named Ulysses, Kansas, which has more than once been the destination of wanderers: There was a time, not so long ago, when ‘Irish’ [...]
By:David A. Smith What makes America work? As this New York Times story shows, it’s people on the move, many of them ‘those people’: Ulysses, Kansas An apt name for a town of wanderers. Not long ago in this quiet farming community, with its familiar skyline of grain elevators and [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 2 and Part 1.] As we saw in previous parts of this post, spontaneous communities like the south Texas colonias (one of which was recently profiled by CNN) become bit by bit more and more like ‘normal’ American towns. A residential [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As we saw yesterday, colonias (like the recent CNN profile of Las Lomas, Texas) not only form spontaneously as offshoots of formal cities nearby, they also tend to replicate across whole areas, such as south Texas just north of the Rio [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s journey to a typical Texan colonia, Las Lomas just outside Rio Grande City, profiled in a recent CNN story, revealed that America has its informal settlements too, and that these gradually formalize, bit by bit, through thousands of individual decisions of investment: [...]
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