Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith From Jamie Holmes, policy analyst at the New America Foundation, published in The New Republic, comes an excellent survey of empirical evidence in favor of what seems a common-sense proposition – that the poorer you are, the less willpower you can summon to change your life, because the more of [...]
By: David A. Smith It must be nice to be given enormous sums, based principally on your self-burnished image for tender-heartedness, and not be troubled by niggling questions about what you did with it and whether anybody was better off as a result. Show me the money! You know that the UN [...]
By: David A. Smith Even before the phrenological theory of human character held sway, it’s been tempting to believe that we ordinary decent people are genetically and visibly distinct from those lowlifes who infest our cities with filth, disease, and crime. It’s all in your head If they are a race apart, [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday we saw that Bolsa Familia, brazil’s signature anti-poverty program that pays families when they keep their children in school, has been a roaring success, measured by outcomes (increased school attendance), cost (much cheaper than direct programs), participation (12,500,000 families), and politics (all current [...]
By: David A. Smith Here’s a novel idea: instead of creating complex programs to direct the poor to help themselves out of poverty, why not just pay them when they do? Would you keep your daughter in school if we paid you? As reported in The Economist, Brazil is doing just that [...]
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