Category: Month in review

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 2, housing policy and finance are national

30 September, 2009 (11:29) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

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[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Continuing our review of August’s posts, we saw in yesterday’s Part 1 that housing is local, because the property cannot move.  But housing finance and policy are far from [...]

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 1, housing is local

29 September, 2009 (10:21) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

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By: David A. Smith
 
With the capital markets stunned into lassitude through repeated bludgeoning with new legislative acronyms, and Washington consumed with an infinite-regressive loop in which the words ‘health care’ are added to every conversation, I [...]

Month in review, July 2009

14 August, 2009 (09:40) | Capital markets, GPBO, Innovations, Local issues, Month in review, US News | No comments

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“The solution is its salesware”
 
The month’s most important post came halfway through, a mantra I’ve been chanting for years now: The solution is its salesware:
 
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I [...]

Month in Review, June 2009: Part 2, not busted

15 July, 2009 (11:57) | Embryo house, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, Real estate taxes, Tax credits, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
Although yesterday’s half of the June review included nothing but bad news of valuable innovations broken or disrupted, the month also included stories showing that Schumpeter was right: some things deserve to be broken.
 

Too  bad for [...]

Month in Review, June 2009: Part 1, busted

14 July, 2009 (09:17) | Embryo house, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, Real estate taxes, Tax credits, US News | No comments

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Who, me? 
 
Busted things dominated June’s posts, a trend of which I was unaware until compiling the month-in-review.  June was busting up all over, starting with the sad spectacle of properties less costly demolished than boarded up, in Plowing it [...]