Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
Yesterday we delved into Westchester County’s recent settlement, as reported in the New York Times, of a desegregation lawsuit. Via a clever legal end run, it was brought against the county by the Anti-Discrimination Center, using the False Claims Act:
The case was litigated by Mr. Gurian and the center’s lawyer, John [...]
Forty years after Operation Breakthrough, the question remains: is exclusionary zoning (de jure or de facto in high land prices) racist, or merely elitist?
Racial discrimination, or economic?
Westchester County house values
Only one is illegal, and in the case of Westchester County, as reported in the New York Times, it took a curious private-citizen [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
Although yesterday’s half of the June review included nothing but bad news of valuable innovations broken or disrupted, the month also included stories showing that Schumpeter was right: some things deserve to be broken.
Too bad for [...]
[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
Who, me?
Busted things dominated June’s posts, a trend of which I was unaware until compiling the month-in-review. June was busting up all over, starting with the sad spectacle of properties less costly demolished than boarded up, in Plowing it [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, we got an education into New York City’s clever Section 421-a program, which combines inclusionary zoning with linkage (or did, until the 2007 reforms), creating a transferable certificate that could be sold, and was sold, as illustrated by an intra-developer litigation highlighted in The New York Observer, which [...]
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