Affordable Housing Institute : US

On June 5, at a well-attended and highly anticipated Istanbul panel held as part of the Annual Summit of the Turkish national Real Estate Association (GYODER), I delivered a speech summarizing our six-month ‘country assessment’ of Turkey’s affordable housing ecosystem.
 

It sounds better in English
 
Our goal was to examine Turkey’s affordable housing financial environment today, identify […]

[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 ]
 
In our examination of Harvard doctoral candidate Laura Tach’s remarkable findings that in HOPE VI properties, incumbent holdovers do not mix with newcomers, largely because the newcomers see things as improved from the past whereas newcomers see the same things as the past continuing into the present.
 

“The future becomes […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post started with the question of residents’ perceptions of a neighborhood change, particularly when it undergoes comprehensive redevelopment as in HOPE VI.  Do people see the changes?  How do they interpret what they see?
 

HOPE VI: Orchard Gardens, Boston, with the new home-style houses in the foreground
 
To begin with, it’s hard […]

 
“I am sure that you inquired your way merely in order that you might see him.”
“Not him.”
“What then?”
“The knees of his trousers.”
“ And what did you see?”
“What I expected to see.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
 
When it comes to urban neighborhoods, do we see them as they are, or how we imagine them to […]

All legislation is carefully stored in labeled blue plastic bins
 
Since affordable housing policy is always an output of the government factory, I have over the years become fascinated by the complex ways in which legislation is created, how elected officials use their political capital, and how they use many things (including political vaporware) to manufacture […]