Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
In Our Fair City of Cambridge, as Click and Clack like to call it, nothing is as fair as our taxes are fair – and that’s fair enough, isn’t it?
Not just a law firm, a motto: the Harvard Square offices of Click and Clack
Roughly a month ago, there was mailed to our [...]
Why would you buy an expensive home in a tony London neighborhood and then leave it empty?
Vacancies even in my tony neighborhood?
That concerns me.
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to peep through Mayfair’s lace curtains:
LONDON — At an abandoned home with yellowing newspapers on its front stoop, Paul Palmer peeks through a mail slot [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
Yesterday we delved into Westchester County’s recent settlement, as reported in the New York Times, of a desegregation lawsuit. Via a clever legal end run, it was brought against the county by the Anti-Discrimination Center, using the False Claims Act:
The case was litigated by Mr. Gurian and the center’s lawyer, John [...]
Forty years after Operation Breakthrough, the question remains: is exclusionary zoning (de jure or de facto in high land prices) racist, or merely elitist?
Racial discrimination, or economic?
Westchester County house values
Only one is illegal, and in the case of Westchester County, as reported in the New York Times, it took a curious private-citizen [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1].
Yesterday’s post examined the hypothetical of raising property taxes while exempting a particular class of elderly homeowners from the increased costs they would vote to impose. As shown in a fascinating quantitative analysis, Massachusetts Proposition 2½, Simulating Overrides with Low-Income Elderly Exemptions, published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston article in [...]
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
