Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Yesterday’s post introduced permanent supportive housing via a new study, The Costs of Rural Homelessness in Maine (text excerpted in dark green font), with presented eye-popping statistics showing that people who can go home to a permanent supportive housing apartment virtually eliminate their stays in jail or emergency shelters.
What changes when you move people into [...]
In America, generally speaking, if you’re homeless you have a problem beyond mere poverty; something about your situation (substance abuse, domestic abuse, mental problems, a physical disability) is wrecking your life.
The crisis of homelessness in Maine has lasted thirty years and resulted in millions of dollars being spent on shelters, emergency services, and corrections [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
So there I was, mid-May in Dublin at the Foundation for Fiscal Studies’ 24th annual gathering, The Fiscal Treatment of Property, expanding on the topic Lessons from the United States and explaining US real estate taxation to a roomful of tax wonks.
Class, can you say ‘locally autonomous control’?
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What if you woke up one morning and local property taxes has been abolished?
No real estate tax escrows collected by your mortgagee.
No assessments, no city assessors.
Before you smile too broadly, I have to mention some other George-Spiggott-inspired conditions of the scenario:
I want only your immortal soul
No local autonomy on schools, police, fire, health. All [...]
Are bad landlords a disease or a symptom? That’s the question tacitly asked by the Boston Globe in a practical and depressing article entitled Sun, sand, and seediness:
From the Boston Globe: dangling light in John Murphy’s cottage
SALISBURY – Light bulbs dangle from sockets fed by fraying wires. Water leaks from an uninsulated ceiling.
[Love that [...]
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