Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Previous posts on New Orleans here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.]
A Washington Post article from two weeks back illustrates the many ways in which markets and people are moving even if elected officials are not:
These days, as planners and [...]
In many previous posts I’ve alluded favorably to the concept of inclusionary zoning. As one of the two truly innovative affordable housing resources invented in the last thirty years (the other being investment tax credits, the purest and most effective expression of soft equity), it deserves its own exposition, using as a case [...]
[Continued from Part 1]
5. Build in urban mass transit from inception
A healthy city has not only skeleton (streets and major structures), it also has a nervous system (rapid daily people movement): urban mass transit. Moving people quickly and cheaply between home and work encourages labor mobility and hence a strong and resilient economy.
More than [...]
Craiglist is running a list of housing offers for Katrina victims.
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