Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Mar 13, Feb 13, Jan 13] By:David A. Smith Lately many of my multi-part posts have sought to make visible the linkages between things that sectoral policymakers seem to see as entirely unrelated. Thus in the Big Apple, I connected the dots between a sudden urban interest [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1] By:David A. Smith If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. – W. C. Fields Yesterday’s post present part of former Harrisburg receiver David Unkovic’s extraordinary speech to a national symposium on Distressed Municipalities, in which he laid out clearly why he believes that [...]
By:David A. Smith Hangman: Have you any last wish? W. C. Fields: Yes, I’d like to see Paris before I die. (Pause) Philadelphia will do. Philadelphia lawyer David Unkovic, a public-finance bond counsel for thirty years, is an unlikely urban theorist – but then, he recently had an unlikely experience. As I [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.] By:David A. Smith In late November, 2011, as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was moving to appoint a receiver for its state capitol, Harrisburg, the city council by a 4-3 vote abruptly filed a bankruptcy petition, which was immediately [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By:David A. Smith After a decade of borrowing, the latter half of which consisted of borrowing to pay debt service on previous unwise borrowing, the voters of Harrisburg had had it – in 2010, they voted out Mayor Reed, and [...]
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