Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Previous Months in Review available here: Feb 13, Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] During March, the Department of Justice sued Standard & Poor’s, an action that was five billion dollars’ worth of overdue, and included legislation with [...]
By:David A. Smith Though this Boston Globe (March 24, 2013) story is written to cheer you up with its tales of civility, I am not at all sure that it means what the Globe thinks it means. The Globe thinks it’s a charming example of communitarianism: Arthur Johnson (left), Kevin Batt, Barbara Kaplan, [...]
By:David A. Smith Just as Hurricane Katrina exposed the incapacity of New Orleans and the obsolescence of its public housing, superstorm Sandy has demonstrated the high cost of the trifecta of inferior locations, long-term structural neglect, and horribly inept management at the New York City Housing Authority, as reported a week ago by the [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post introduced Cranberry and Pine Tree Villages, adjacent mobile home park communities where the residents did not own the land beneath their feet, rendering them vulnerable both to rises in rent and also to having their land sold out from under them. 4 [...]
By:David A. Smith Susan Roovers and her daughter Natasha Whitford, 12, stand outside their mobile home at Pine Tree Village in South Carver, Thursday, June 14, 2012. It’s always a happy ending when long-lost soul mates are finally reunited – even when neither of the sundered pair is animate, as in this uplifting [...]
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