Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1] By:David A. Smith If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. – W. C. Fields Yesterday’s post present part of former Harrisburg receiver David Unkovic’s extraordinary speech to a national symposium on Distressed Municipalities, in which he laid out clearly why he believes that [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1] Yesterday’s post on matchmaking in China, using an absorbing article in the New York Times (March 10, 2013) (channeling China Daily three years earlier), brought us two demographic realities: China’s wealth has been booming, leading to a widening Gini coefficient (haves and have-nots) and China has [...]
By:David A. Smith So bound up are we by our place of habitation (you are what you live in) that we use abode as a proxy for family status (household!), for social status (“they bought a McMansion“), for family configuration (“we’re moving in together”), and for health status (“we’re moving Mom to a nursing [...]
By:David A. Smith Spain is caught in a deflationary spiral, and as far as I can tell it is only getting worse. From positive money, 2010 When a delinquent entity whose solvency is in question is not a bank or company but a nation, the techniques that work for addressing a bankor [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.] By:David A. Smith In late November, 2011, as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was moving to appoint a receiver for its state capitol, Harrisburg, the city council by a 4-3 vote abruptly filed a bankruptcy petition, which was immediately [...]
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