Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Previous Month in Reviews available here: Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] Among its many attributes, housing is a deeply personal asset – you are what you live in – That’s not what we meant by mobile homes – and so what we are permitted to do in [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post introduced Ireland’s bitter brew of newfound fiscal austerity and the introduction of ane entirely rational normal residential property tax: Brewed in Ireland Nevertheless, the March 31 deadline triggered protests across the small nation (the size of Indiana), whose significance can be [...]
By:David A. Smith Austerity is always bitter. So we, naturally enough, want to defer it. Especially if we think that somehow our refusal will make it go away – which is what has been playing out in Ireland: Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax As so [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post followed banking’s Wild Geese – the former Lehman traders, bankers, and salesmen, profiled in a recent New York Times article, whose lives exploded when their firm did. Three of Lehman’s Wild Geese: unemployed Gelber, gentlemen of leisure Linton, plugger Ollquist [...]
By: David A. Smith O the Wild Geese are flying, O the Wild Geese are flying. We’ve built your canals and railroads, our buildings reach the sky – “The Wild Geese,” by Mike Harding In 1691, after the Williamite Army crushed the Irish Jacobite army in the Battle of the Boyne, their army [...]
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