Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
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 [...]
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 where they [...]
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 to move”) [...]
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