Affordable Housing Institute : US

What do you do when you’ve got a lovely, empty condo?
 

Ready for immediate occupancy!
 
The worst thing the condos can do is sit vacant for a protracted interval.  Not only does this cost you operating money, an unoccupied property feels unloved, and people shy away from moving in there.  So, as illustrated by this recent […]

Yesterday’s post on my experience teaching a brand-new course, Mortgages for the Poor; An Overview of Products and Supporting Infrastructure at the world-famous Boulder Microfinance Training Program (MFT), brought us to the point of wanting to follow the customer. 

Whoever gets the customer first, wins!
 
The MFI customer needs and wants a housing-finance product, because traditional microfinance […]

Somewhere in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein describes his intellectual hero Professor Bernardo de la Paz working as an itinerant teacher on the Moon, teaching anything to anybody, by reading up furiously and staying a few weeks ahead of his syllabus.  It was with something not entirely dissimilar that I put together, and […]

If you do something innovative, you should win an award, no? 

I’d like to thank the Academy for creating awards so I can win one!
 
Henry Hudson Townhouses, the property so badly built it had to go somewhere to die, has been reborn as Village Green Apartments, and is up for Best Preservation of the Year […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s speculation on the incubation and development of successful mission entrepreneurial entities (MEEs) put forth the thesis that MEEs as businesses as mature when they can operate their business continuously, making money through each iteration of their mission activity. 
 
This makes the MEE itself – the machine that manufactures new mission […]