Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
We think of being a renter as a diminished state, yet rental has the tremendous advantage of low entry and exit costs, meaning greater flexibility. In a down market, we should spare a moment’s pity for people used to labor and household mobility, who find their unsold former home nothing but a [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Waves to Harvey and smiles]
“No, no, not yet. Not until me and Harvey get the rules straightened out.”“Rules!?!? In a knife fight!?!? No rules.”
Butch Cassidy and Harvey Logan
Abject desperation yields a creativity verging on the laughable, as illustrated by this recent Wall Street Journal about residents whose developer has what can only [...]
By: David A. Smith
As part of the multi-day World Habitat Day activities, AHI, along with the National Housing Conference and the Housing Partnership Network, will be sponsoring a presentation and panel discussion on a topic that we think has great relevance, both in the Global South and back home in America.
Being hosted in Washington for [...]
Dinosaurs and buggy whips came to my mind when I read (self-referentially, in the Boston Globe
Itself) of three bidders for the money-flushing newspaper:
An investment firm that recently purchased a San Diego newspaper has emerged as a third bidder for The Boston Globe, according to people briefed on offers submitted to the paper’s owner, The New [...]
You’ve got to try harder
In the aftermath of the subprime meltdown, fingers are being pointed every which way, among them at the appraisal community, which led to a systemic change brought about by new York’s aggressive Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, who pressured the GSEs into an agreement about which [...]
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