Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
Just as bad facts make for bad law, bad laws make for bad behavior and bad administration. Nowhere are these contradictions more visible than when adjacent jurisdictions that have a shared interest in macroeconomic health think they can get away with boundary exploitation by taxing more on our side of the fence [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s speculation on the relationship in cities between optionality (our ability to see others) and privacy (our desire to prevent them seeing us) used housing, the linchpin of cities, and the seminal study of peeping, Rear Window:
Wholesome or unhealthy? Milk, a sandwich, and a telephoto lens
As we saw yesterday, the movie [...]
Yesterday’s post about the prejudices against rental naturally invites the question, what is true about rental?
A. Rental is always disfavored in political resources.
You wouldn’t find the answers in a 1922 booklet by M. W. Folsom, “The Facts about Home Owning“, from A Home of Your Own.
Rental always wishes it got as much political love as [...]
Throughout my professional career, I’ve dealt with a curious prejudice – against rental housing generally, and against affordable rental in particular.
In country after country, situation after situation, I’ve found that when people think of housing, they instinctively equate it with homeownership, and when making distinctions, ownership is seen as good, rental as bad. A great [...]
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