Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] As we saw in yesterday’s Part 1, affordable housing and urban troubles abound globally, but we need look no further than our front stoop to find [...]
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12] By:David A. Smith I promise to stop using my blackberry! Housing is both global and local; both abstract and intensely human – and in November, our posts covered all four corners of housing’s world. [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] After two days of posting demonstrating the utter failure of NYCHA’s command-and-control ass-and-elbows approach to crisis management, reported by the New York Times (December 10, 2012), there is a bright story about community networks, self-organized and almost spontaneously evolving, as [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Ten days after superstorm Sandy, as we saw in yesterday’s post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was claiming, as reported in this exhaustive New York Times (December 10, 2012) chronicle, that all of NYCHA’s public housing properties would have power within a few days: [...]
By:David A. Smith Before the Federal government bestows untold billions on New York City for its recovery from Sandy, should it not ask if New York City is deserving of such bounty? Volunteers deliver food and inquire about specific needs among residents of the Red Hook Houses on November 16, nearly three weeks [...]
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