Affordable Housing Institute : US

If you do something innovative, you should win an award, no? 

I’d like to thank the Academy for creating awards so I can win one!
 
Henry Hudson Townhouses, the property so badly built it had to go somewhere to die, has been reborn as Village Green Apartments, and is up for Best Preservation of the Year […]

 
As we watch the US housing and capital markets struggle to find their equilibrium, there’s no question we are experiencing a worldwide phenomenon – and even allowing for the parochial lenses through which Americans receive news of other people’s markets, I think it’s clear that however much disturbance we are facing in the US markets, […]

To-ga!  To-ga!  To-ga!
 
Students off campus – can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em — at least, that seems to be the prevailing wisdom of the student towns I’ve observed here in greater Boston and elsewhere (as I posted in No adolescents need apply).  Even as communities want the ‘right’ sort of people, they seem […]

“Earth isn’t a place,” says Mayor John Amalfi, the hero of James Blish’s Blish’s multi-volume space epic Cities in Flight [One of our Ultimate Future Cities – Ed.], at the end of Earthman, Come Home.  “It’s an idea.”
 
Homeownership is an idea, too, one whose powerful lure moves money and people across vast distances.  As reported […]

Pendulums swing back, don’t they?
 

Where do interest rates figure in the equations?
 
In 2006 the US homeownership rate was up to 68.8%, a two-and-a-half percentage hike from the rate only eight years earlier, before subprime and adjustable rate financing zoomed into the marketplace, when the US homeownership rate was 66.3%.  Nor was that the crest; at […]