Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Now we know that 87 Linden Street, where Binland Lee died in the April 28 fire, was way over-occupied, because that was in the unstated but manifest interest of both landlord and residents. As I’ve observed elsewhere, in any [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the tragic death of Binland Lee, in her attic room in an overcrowded student rental, dealt with the fire’s facts – and if that were all to the story, it would simply be a tragic incident. But everything is connected to everything [...]
By:David A. Smith Tragedy exposes an ecosystem’s weaknesses. A rowdy college party, a lit cigarette, an overcrowded student house, a remote and small-scale landlord, informal subdivisions and excess occupancy, and a building inspection system that gives the illusion of enforcement. Combine them and a young woman is dead. Binland Lee, BU senior … [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post on Judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision, reported in the New York Post (January 8, 2013) and New York Times (January 8, 2013) (blue font), brought us to the unexpected boundary issue, that Operation Clean Halls inside apartment buildings is perfectly appropriate, whereas the judge [...]
By:David A. Smith In the relations between landlords and residents, security and privacy conflict, and when to that mix is added the third participant, that of law enforcement, the mutuality of boundaries becomes very complicated indeed, as demonstrated by the legal disputes surrounding New York City’s apartment patrol program, known by its proponents as [...]
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