Category: Public-Private Partnerships

What makes a good consultant? Part 1b, Rules of engagement

7 May, 2009 (16:46) | AHI activities, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1a.]
 
“You know my methods. Apply them!”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1
 

Holmes worried facts as a dog worries a bone
 
For me as chronicler of the exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, there is never a shortage of material from which to draw; my challenges [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1a, Rules of engagement

6 May, 2009 (10:50) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

 
“I think that I had better go, Holmes.” “Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
A Scandal in Bohemia

Whenever I could, I looked in on Holmes
 

In looking over my modest chronicles of the various housing-finance exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, [...]

Affordable housing in Turkey: my talk at GYODER

26 June, 2008 (08:12) | Global news, Government, Policy, Public-Private Partnerships, Turkey | No comments

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 [...]

We see what we expect to see: Part 3, what it means

21 February, 2008 (11:00) | Public housing, Public-Private Partnerships, Research, Theory | No comments

[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 [...]

We see what we expect to see: Part 2, what residents see

20 February, 2008 (11:38) | Public housing, Public-Private Partnerships, Research, Theory | No comments

[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 [...]