Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
“Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.”
– Noah Cross, Chinatown
“‘Course I’m respectable. I’m old.”
Someday I’ll post in detail about Chinatown, because it (and its spiritual cousin, True Confessions) is a great film about housing development and municipal infrastructure, whose economic power did much to define [...]
Manila, yesterday
Sonia Fadraigo, Federation leader and Board member of AHI’s client Slum Dwellers International wrote this morning:
Federation not OK. Badly hit. Biggest disaster ever. Don’t know where to start. Still gathering info as to how many died. Thousands of Fed members lost their houses – washed out by the floods. We need help. Thank you [...]
In yesterday’s blog post, we heard from Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham, whose his mid-April Gleaner column describes his successful housing development, Old Harbour Glades, that has apparently replaced “the bad lands of Succaba Settlement”:
“Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town”
His summary of how it was done, and [...]
Allow Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham the voice of pride that shines through his mid-April column in The Gleaner as he describes his successful housing development:
Building hope through housing
Jamaican housing is stratified. Uptown erects gated communities while downtown erects settlements at the gates. Some settlers provide valuable services to the gated, while [...]
What defines modern housing? Tour enough castles, abbeys, and stately homes and it isn’t hard to identify the five critical features:
State of the art, thirteenth century
1. Central heating rather than fireplaces
2. Running water instead of basins and pitchers
3. Flush toilet and sewer instead of chamber pots and outhouses
4. Bright lighting instead of candles
5. Electricity for [...]
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