Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]
So far in this three-part post, using as our text this New York Times story, we’ve followed the Atlanta Housing Authority’s fifteen-year quest to reverse the public-policy error of excessively large purely public housing properties with deep income concentration [...]
Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Earlier this year, as we saw yesterday via this New York Times story, the Atlanta Housing Authority has accomplished an impressive feat: it ended a 73-year policy detour by tearing down the last of its original Depression-era public housing, not because it wanted to exit [...]
When seeking to house the poor, we have two macro-level choices on assistance-basing:
We know that’s the goal, which way do we do it?
1. Place-based. Build quality apartments and move people in to those apartments.
2. People-based. Give people subsidy that enables them to make effective choice and find apartments in [...]
On Saturday, March 14, I participated in back-to-back panels at the NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials) spring legislative conference, and the topic rolled around to the reinvention of public housing – particularly in light of the tumult engulfing the American affordable housing ecosystem.
[Readers will recall that I've previously published three speculative/ [...]
[Continued from the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.]
“Can this man save public housing?” asked the Boston Globe, its cover image hinting at its hoped-for answer, and for four eventful years, Harry tried.
And failed.
Sorry, Harry; admirable try
Indeed, for public housing, the pair of decades of the Eighties and Nineties [...]
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