Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
Just as bad facts make for bad law, bad laws make for bad behavior and bad administration. Nowhere are these contradictions more visible than when adjacent jurisdictions that have a shared interest in macroeconomic health think they can get away with boundary exploitation by taxing more on our side of the fence [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1].
Yesterday’s post examined the hypothetical of raising property taxes while exempting a particular class of elderly homeowners from the increased costs they would vote to impose. As shown in a fascinating quantitative analysis, Massachusetts Proposition 2½, Simulating Overrides with Low-Income Elderly Exemptions, published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston article in [...]
Once we have accepted the principle that tax burdens should vary by taxpayer group – and everyone except a few economists have so accepted, at least in the world of political reality – we must choose who gains the more favored treatment – and how we package it.
Long ago, when I matriculated to [...]
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 [...]
The ship is sinking.
Women, children, and credited cast members first
You have lifeboats in the water.
But you have fewer lifeboats than passengers.
We thought they were enough, for the ship could never sink
What do you do?
Get away from the wreck as quickly as possible?
As reported in the Boston Globe, that dilemma confronts Julia Kehoe:
Julia E. Kehoe, [...]
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