Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Previous Months in Review available here: Feb 13, Jan 13, Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] During March, the Department of Justice sued Standard & Poor’s, an action that was five billion dollars’ worth of overdue, and included legislation with [...]
By:David A. Smith Though the purpose of journalism is principally to report, now and then one wishes that reporters who observe effects would see them in the context of their causes, as in this story from the Financial Times (March 12, 2013): Things are connected, you know Housing crisis deepens for New [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith How safe, whose responsibility, and at what price? Yesterday’s post,, based on an article from Crains New York (March 12, 2013), explored a little-known but large cost of construction in New York properties – the judicial standard of absolute liability that has the effect [...]
By:David A. Smith Lunch atop a skyscraper: workers on the Empire State Building construction (The photo was staged, but it’s still a killer image.) Though goodness knows I shouldn’t be, I am constantly surprised by the shortsightedness of those who defend anachronistic laws that nevertheless benefit them, and even more surprised by the [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post on Judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision, reported in the New York Post (January 8, 2013) and New York Times (January 8, 2013) (blue font), brought us to the unexpected boundary issue, that Operation Clean Halls inside apartment buildings is perfectly appropriate, whereas the judge [...]
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