Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
In yesterday’s post featuring a well-titled New York Times story, we focused mainly on the upside of premarital homebuying – how it tends to precipitate the decision to marry.
Honey … I guess we’ve got to get married
Since it does, policy makers like to incentive the buying of [...]
By: David A. Smith
So good is the New York Times’s headline for this story – adapted from Christopher Marlowe – that I cannot improve upon it:
Come live with me and be my Love
And we will all the pleasures prove
– Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare’s contemporary and competitor
So intertwined with our notions of family are our feelings about housing [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, riffing off a thought-provoking Harvard Business Review op-ed by Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, we envisioned the composition of a Financial Invention Review Board (FIRB), and bestowed upon it hypothetical powers.
“That’s a lot of powers!”
Creating a new entity and bestowing upon it such far-reaching powers will [...]
By: David A. Smith
Before we unleash a new financial drug on the world, might it require some clinical field trials? That question lies behind a fascinating Harvard Business Review op-ed by of all people and places, Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories:
What can you do in a democracy when you rely on the private sector [...]
By: David A. Smith
Smoking isn’t illegal, yet so demonized has it become in America’s urban cores that creeping illegalization seems close at hand by its gradual eviction from any inhabited space. Consider this little morality play from New York Times:
The movement to ban smoking in New York City has grown so quickly that no place [...]
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