Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith New York Times For every unpleasant scenario, there is usually one worse – and that is the curse of free will. I’m happy and carefree – what harm could I possibly do? However much we wish not to contemplate bad futures – especially financial ones – they [...]
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 [...]
This is a whodunit. Somebody’s paying more, and it’s somebody else’s fault. Who’s the culprit? We all live in this co-op, and one of us will be financially murdered But first, let’s meet the victim(s), since what is a good juicy newspaper story (in this case, from the New York Times) without a victim? I’m [...]
[Previous posts on local taxation include Assessment of affordable housing, Local taxation: cui bono?, Real estate taxes: basic budget algebra, The states of play, Who pays property taxes? – Ed.] From the Unintentional Humor Department of the New York Times comes this What-are-we-going-to-DO-about-this? story about new parents who are shocked, shocked to discover that [...]
A few weeks back, the Administration made a puzzling move whose deftness is becoming clearer the more I reflect on it. By tabling a proposal to overhaul the tax code, the Administration has placed many other political players into political zugzwang: whatever they do, the Administration gains. In chess, the German word zugzwang (“compulsion [...]
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