Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith Relief is a noble endeavor. Recovery is a slow and difficult process. So at any given moment, relief seems the kinder thing to do – and yet, by its well-intended support, relief precludes recovery and in that preclusion extends the economic depression. That’s my takeaway, anyhow, from this AP story reprinted [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post summing up New New Orleans, by comparing the predictions I made at the time with the actual New York Times-reported results, focused on the demographics – a loss of 148,000 people, about 30% of the pre-Katrina population – but that demographic shift [...]
By: David A. Smith Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New New Orleans has long since taken shape; despite nostalgists denying reality, the city that s now s the city that will be. How must of New New Orleans was predictable in the early aftermath of Katrina? As predictable as the blues Remarkably, [...]
[Continued from yesterday's part 1.] [Click here for an archive of my 2005 New New Orleans posts.] As we saw yesterday, three years after Hurricane Katrina, I was in New New Orleans at an AHIC conference that included a lunchtime speaker from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, followed by a bus [...]
[Click here for an archive of my 2005 New New Orleans posts.] Three years in, what has New New Orleans become? A month ago I was back in the Big Easy for the first time since Katrina. Did the city bear more resemblance to my optimistic view (Venice on the bayou) or my pessimistic [...]
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