Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday, using half a dozen articles anchored by this report in the Boston Globe (October 20, 2012) (blue font), I followed the eight-year vigil of continuous trespassing occupancy by parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church in Scituate, which by now has become a set of [...]
By:David A. Smith As I was researching and writing my multi-part piece on the redevelopment of churches into housing, I came across the remarkable story of St. Frances Cabrini in Scituate, a former church that ought to be redeveloped, and is not being redeveloped because of the stubbornness – they would say faith – [...]
By:David A. Smith For the most full-on Monet of reasons (“from far away, it’s okay, but up close it’s a big old mess”), Signapore has imposed a hefty surtax on foreigners buying residential property in their thriving city state. As reported in the Wall Street Journal (January 29, 2013): Singapore’s Housing Tax Hits [...]
By:David A. Smith Convicted of multiple crimes, a homeowner is about to be deported after several years in prison, but before he leaves, he wants his girlfriend to have his house, only his ex-wife and her children (two of them this) refuses to leave. So he goes to court to evict her. Pretty [...]
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