Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, sprouting like a fistful of mushrooms from a little USA Today story about backyard rental apartments being built (with permission) in eco-friendly Seattle – Give them the right zoning and they sprout overnight – observed first that new tenures and [...]
By: David A. Smith Because both evolution and capitalism fill empty spaces, ecosystems become more robust as they diversify species – and when a need is unmet, the markets will find it – via shared-bathroom group houses, in-law apartments, rooming houses, urban micro-housing, or something else. That’s the powerful (and to my mind hopeful) [...]
Here in the comfortable West, we think all our housing is formal, in contrast to that ‘informal’ housing they have in the global south – yet all around us, we tolerate permanent informality, because we think it temporary, as unwittingly revealed by this faintly touch-in-cheek Wall Street Journal article: A sky of scrapers … [...]
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