Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s speculation on the incubation and development of successful mission entrepreneurial entities (MEEs) put forth the thesis that MEEs as businesses as mature when they can operate their business continuously, making money through each iteration of their mission activity. 
 
This makes the MEE itself – the machine that manufactures new mission […]

What with AHI’s Gates Foundation grant, AHI will be spending a fair bit of time developing and expounding the theories and practice of how mission entrepreneurial entities (MEEs) make change with bottom-up pressure and pilot projects and schemes.  One element, for which I have a new sensitivity by virtue of our work as financial advisor […]

[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 […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post introduced us to Builders Of Hope in Raleigh, North Carolina, whose executive director Nancy Murray and operating director Lew Schulman have invented a whizzo business model for what I have dubbed ‘hermit crab housing.’  As profiled in the Wall Street Journal, the program uproots good but economically obsolete houses from […]

What do you call the invention of something so clever you immediately say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
 

Why didn’t I think of that?
 
That’s what struck me upon receiving an email from Nancy Murray, executive director of Builders Of Hope in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a subsequent phone call with Lew Schulman, its Director […]