Affordable Housing Institute : US

Every now and then, somebody does it right. 
 
In the bold action of a man confident of his politics and his policy, Florida governor Charlie Crist has pulled the trigger on what looks like a long-term masterstroke.  As reported in The Washington Post:
 

In the stillness is the act …
 
In an ambitious maneuver to help restore […]

[Continued from the previous Part 2 and Part 1.]
 
The idea is as old as the Roman army, as American as the Homestead Act, and as timely as formalizing slums in the global south via urban homesteading.
 
Now for a little more fun: could you use it to stimulate private colonization of the Moon? 
 

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[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s interplanetary riff about potentially sell land rights on the Moon, stimulated by a provocative Drake Bennett article in The Boston Globe, suggested that pre-selling future rights would stimulate not only investment but also exploration with a view to investment.  Hernando De Soto and numerous others (including me) believe that ownership […]

If land ownership spurs investment, as Hernando De Soto and numerous others (including me) believe, can we use the promise of a future rights grant to spur investment?  That’s the premise behind an entertaining and provocative little concept story in The Boston Globe about how we can revive human space exploration:
 
If we really want to […]