Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As we saw in yesterday’s Yahoo Finance-inspired post on homeowners’ association, living in proximity means power is concentrated in a few, and that the resulting authority is used, including enforcing against the residents: By order not of the government, [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s Yahoo Finance-inspired post explored how homeowners’ associations – which represent an astonishing one-fifth of all American homes – act like horizontal condominiums, with a legal entity owning common space and an elected board making decisions that affect the whole complex, most notably what to [...]
By: David A. Smith Tension always follows when people live together, whether as roommates, lovers, extended families, in a co-op, a condo, or a homeowners association – and as urbanization increases American cities’ density, these more complex physical forms are increasingly the norm, bringing with them complex financial forms of shared obligations clashing with [...]
By: David A. Smith Elephants, particularly Indian elephants, are long-lived, apparently indestructible, highly intelligent, faithful, and often affectionate. Let’s pressure-wash your exterior Yet they are not nimble, fast, or well suited to precise activities, so they benefit from mahouts, human handlers who provide them what they need, and who in turn benefit [...]
What’s the best way to manage a home’s indoor climate? As I type this blog post, our house’s fan is running behind me, circulating air – and directly in front of me is a lovely bank of fifteen-light windows through which I can see our back garden. Why don’t I just turn [...]
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