Category: Innovations

Month in Review, February, 2013: Part 2, All finance is global

26 April, 2013 (09:00) | Apartments, Argentina, Bankruptcy, Boston, CalPERS, Chapter 40B, Eurozone, Housing, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, ratings agencies, Redevelopment, US News, Zoning | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] ­­ [Previous Months in Review available here: Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   You deserve a break today   Turning from the local to the national, I reported, with no little righteous, on the [...]

Month in Review, February, 2013: Part 1, All real estate is local

25 April, 2013 (09:00) | Apartments, Argentina, Bankruptcy, Boston, CalPERS, Chapter 40B, Eurozone, Housing, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, ratings agencies, Redevelopment, US News, Zoning | No comments

[Previous Months in Review available here: Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   It all depends on what you think ‘local’ is   We think of home as a place of safety where we keep the dangerous world out, [...]

Sauce for the gander

16 April, 2013 (14:38) | Banks, Compensation, Incentives, Innovations, pay, Subprime, US News | No comments

  By:David A. Smith   Time for you to reform too, padre   Too soon old, too late smart – is that how it runs?  Or was it a case of being smart but helpless, feeling under pressure to pay huge bonuses in cash based on non-cash estimates of earnings?    Before the crisis, Wall [...]

Micro and macro housing issues: Part 3, the political forces

12 April, 2013 (10:03) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, San Francisco, Urbanization, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   By mixing and matching snippets from three stories – the New York Post (March 30, 2013) (brown font), the San Francisco Chronicle (November 20, 2012) (blue font), and Bloomberg (January 29, 2013) (green font) – we’ve been able to see [...]

Micro and macro housing issues: Part 2, the squatting scammers

11 April, 2013 (13:59) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, Urbanization, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   Yesterday’s post brought us cheerful CAD/CAM renderings of innovative micro-scale apartments being pioneered in New York and San Francisco, two cities that combine heavy-headed development restrictions and skyrocketing rents, the relationship between which is revealed only when one lines up three different stories, specifically the [...]