Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday, in our most recent installment of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, we explored the got-to-be-a-good-idea of smart meters for single-family residential customers. As revealed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, the meters are an unequivocal advance, since they enable both producer and consumer to know what [...]
By: David A. Smith
When people know what they are doing, they do it smarter. That’s the principle behind biofeedback.
Now, as you can see, reading AHI blogs makes you happier
When people know what they are spending, they usually spend less. Of the three main costs of sheltering a family – cost of occupancy, cost of transportation [...]
By David A. Smith
Sitting here in LimboWaiting for the tide to turn.Yeah, now, sitting here in Limbo,So many things I’ve got to learn.Meanwhile, they’re putting up a resistance,But I know that my faith will lead me on.
– Jimmy Cliff
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all!
Whither the GSEs? A year [...]
By David A. Smith
Can you count the times you’ve moved? Remember how much fun it was? How long it took you to unpack the final boxes?
Got everything?
Most of us hate moving – and we understand that moving is a sunk cost that yields nothing but emotional, temporal, and economic entropy, so we try to [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
In yesterday’s post featuring a well-titled New York Times story, we focused mainly on the upside of premarital homebuying – how it tends to precipitate the decision to marry.
Honey … I guess we’ve got to get married
Since it does, policy makers like to incentive the buying of [...]
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