Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.]
 
In Part 1 on the economics of water, I claimed that because housing is what makes cities, piping and water management was a precondition of forming cities, and is a controlling variable on successful urbanization in the global south, where the world’s rapidly expanding cities are […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
So far in our examination of the economics of water, drawing from Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water and looking for principles applicable to 21st century urbanization in the world’s rapidly expanding cities and the spontaneous communities that represent their […]

[Continued from Part 1.]
 

 
In Part 1, I opened with the economics of water, using as its inspiration Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water, and looking for principles applicable to 21st century urbanization in the world’s rapidly expanding cities and the spontaneous communities that represent their slums.  Because housing is what makes […]

As you know, with my work for Slum Dwellers International, and more broadly on affordable housing in the global south, I’ve been progressively more interested in the finance of basic urban infrastructure, particularly water and sanitation, because if housing is what makes cities, water and sanitation is what makes housing habitable, and hence what controls […]