Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 2 on the bureausclerosis choking France’s economy, using as source material a small-scale article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), zeroed in on the debilitating effects of excessive regulation from afar and identified some principles of regulatory balance [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday we saw, via an article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), that France’s centralized government (and behind it, the even-more-remote European Commission) so distrusts anyone it does business with that it has promulgated at least 400,000 norms and rules, all of them violating [...]
By:David A. Smith When Yeats wrote Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, he could never envisioned the rise of the Bureaucratic State, which believes that lack of touch is no reason to loosen one’s grip on the capillaries – and so, unless the acquisitive tendency is checked, one reaches an end state such [...]
By:David A. Smith All of us have a body paSrt where the sun don’t shine, and while it’s intimately connected to our personal ecosystems, we have only the vaguest idea what goes on back there. It’s got a mind of its own Cities have such places too, one of them less than [...]
By:David A. Smith For the most full-on Monet of reasons (“from far away, it’s okay, but up close it’s a big old mess”), Signapore has imposed a hefty surtax on foreigners buying residential property in their thriving city state. As reported in the Wall Street Journal (January 29, 2013): Singapore’s Housing Tax Hits [...]
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