Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith Though it suits our Calvinist sense of righteousness to believe that poverty is merely a condition, not a cause, evidence continues to accumulate that housing poverty, especially in childhood, permanently harms the future adult and the future society that adult will inhabit – as most recently reported in The Economist: [...]
By: David A. Smith That the same topic can be simultaneously trivial and tragic, all depending on circumstances is well illustrated by Economist article about public toilets that cannot decide whether to be cheeky or chastising: Flushing away unfairness From the Economist: The shepee, a woman’s pissoir The scene is familiar, [...]
By: David A. Smith Sleep tight, my mother would always say when she tucked me in, don’t let the bed bugs bite. We’re here, we have no fear, get used to it In 1958, that was merely a nursery rhyme. Good night, sleep tight, Don’t let the bedbugs bite. Bedbugs, I [...]
By: David A. Smith If we can put a man on the Moon, why can’t we create clean, attractive public toilets in major cities? That question is implicit in a little New York Times deposit on the subject of effective business models for urban defecation entitled We weren’t quite ready for the modern toilet [...]
By: David A. Smith They’re called zabaleen, after an Arabic phrase meaning ‘garbage people’, and you wouldn’t want to be one: Most of the inhabitants of Garbage City are Coptic Christians. An estimated 60,000 – 70,000 Zabaleen live in an area known locally as Garbage City, and are mostly descendants of poor farmers [...]
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