Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By David A. Smith
Can you count the times you’ve moved? Remember how much fun it was? How long it took you to unpack the final boxes?
Got everything?
Most of us hate moving – and we understand that moving is a sunk cost that yields nothing but emotional, temporal, and economic entropy, so we try to [...]
By: David A. Smith
We think of apartments, like other forms of housing, as existing in a particular space, but they also exist through time – our occupancy occurs nights, weekends, mornings, and holidays. Because we make our move-in decision based solely on a few snapshots – a half-hour walkthrough, perhaps, or maybe a second visit, [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
When an owner skedaddles, leaving a trail of crumbling buildings and reams of uncured building code violations, whom can we vilify?
Building code violations! New York Times articles! Run away!
Certainly someone is culpable:
At 1744 Clay Avenue, residents have endured winter days without heat and hot water. The super has not been paid [...]
Residential property is an exoskeletal shell that, like the chambered nautilus, is alive only when inhabited, the occupant playing the important role of eternal vigilante.
I may not own it, but I occupy it!
These two roles are best fused via homeownership, where the occupant and the owner are one and the same, but can also [...]
No, not your humble narrator – rather one of the many namesakes that we who have such a common name experience. [I was once invited to attend a gathering of the members of the David Smith Society – no joke! – for whom there was only one qualification – to be named David Smith. We [...]
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