Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith Though zoning is destiny, it wears a tight corset, the squeezing into which can lead to contorted inventiveness, as shown in this cheerful little mis-titled Wall Street Journal story: Building Outside the Box Actually, Mr. Agarwala and his architect were at pains to build inside the box – [...]
[Concluded from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith After two days examining the tasty delights of fast-sprouting affordable via backyard apartments, cheerfully profiled in a USA Today, it’s time to hear from those who think such apartments, tenures like shared-bathroom group houses, in-law apartments, rooming houses, and [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, sprouting like a fistful of mushrooms from a little USA Today story about backyard rental apartments being built (with permission) in eco-friendly Seattle – Give them the right zoning and they sprout overnight – observed first that new tenures and [...]
By: David A. Smith Because both evolution and capitalism fill empty spaces, ecosystems become more robust as they diversify species – and when a need is unmet, the markets will find it – via shared-bathroom group houses, in-law apartments, rooming houses, urban micro-housing, or something else. That’s the powerful (and to my mind hopeful) [...]
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