Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday, using half a dozen articles anchored by this report in the Boston Globe (October 20, 2012) (blue font), I followed the eight-year vigil of continuous trespassing occupancy by parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church in Scituate, which by now has become a set of [...]
By:David A. Smith As I was researching and writing my multi-part piece on the redevelopment of churches into housing, I came across the remarkable story of St. Frances Cabrini in Scituate, a former church that ought to be redeveloped, and is not being redeveloped because of the stubbornness – they would say faith – [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post introduced the extraordinary spectacle, reported in the The New York Times, of state-owned Chinese developers bidding against each other to buy land at high prices from Chinese municipalities. Here’s how we did it, boys! So dangerous and shortsighted is this [...]
By: David A. Smith To be worthy of their position, governments are supposed to be countercyclical – stimulating the economy when it is weak, cooling it when it risks overheating. Governments can do this because they are not private actors – instead they have the responsibility for assuring long-term growth, and they have the [...]
By: David A. Smith Pirates have a real estate problem and a capital problem. We’ve got the capital, now we need the real estate! Like highwaymen (land pirates) and kidnappers (wilderness pirates), for their business they need a work environment of vast uncharted spaces and complete lawlessness – for which the high [...]
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