Category: Month in review

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

[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 

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 [...]

Month in Review May 2009

2 July, 2009 (11:20) | AHI activities, Configuration, Housing, MEEs, Mobile homes, Month in review, Slums, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]

Though housing is the output of an enormously complex, ever-changing, hugely capitalized value chain, unlike other abstract capital-markets products like Credit Default Swaps, we all connect to it because we live in its [...]

Month in Review April 2009: Part 2, hail and farewell

22 May, 2009 (11:06) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

 [Previous Months In Review available here: Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
As we continue reviewing April, the global capital de-leveraging now taking place is having impact at a series of rising steps in the value chain, starting with individual buyers (I was dumb so give me my money back), families (Discreet [...]

Month in Review April 2009: Part 1, the shakeout continues

21 May, 2009 (09:55) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
My blog isn’t the only source of periodic writing. 
 

So much prose, it surfaces in multiple outlets
 
A year into the LIHTC equity markets disruption, over at my for-profit consultancy we published an important piece, Policy Update 74, Rethinking and Re-engineering the LIHTC Value Chain [...]