Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.]
 
Correlation, as we have drummed into our heads in logic class, is not causation, though it definitely has meaning.  Hanna Rosin’s lengthy Atlantic article about the correlation between increased inner-ring suburban crime and the dispersal of formerly public housing residents via vouchers after demolition assembles […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
So far, in deconstructing the lengthy Atlantic article about deconcentrating poverty by demolishing public housing and giving residents economic mobility, an article whose premises I find somewhere between flawed and offensive, although they are unstated, indirect, and hard-to-pin-down. 
 

Cough up that theory now, there’s a good […]

 [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday we started digging into an 8,500 word Atlantic article that never quite has the courage of its convictions.  Echoing the Duke of Wellington’s lament about the railways –
 
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
 

Imagine having to sit among them
 
– it wants […]

 
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
 

 
There is much to admire in the Iron Duke, but when it came to the Iron Horse, no matter how dismissive, he was imperiously, dismissively, magisterially wrong.  Railways created mobility and opportunity, and the common people took advantage of it to […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
Two days ago we introduced Builders Of Hope in Raleigh, North Carolina, which (as profiled in the Wall Street Journal) lifts up solid but economically obsolescent houses from their ample and now-too-valuable sites, and relocates them elsewhere on smaller, less valuable sites, along the way converting what […]