Affordable Housing Institute : US

[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? 
 

See any […]

[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 […]

How a couple of years can change things!
 
In real estate development, wise developers always heed Brutus’s advice:
 

Not that I loved eminent domain less, but that I loved New London more
 
There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows […]

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“Rates, rates, who cares about rates? I’ll get you the money.”
— A mortgage broker friend of mine, 1982, when a mortgage went for 18%

What becomes…