Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
While housing is immovable, jobs and people move, and where people live in one house and work in another, they must commute between the two, mustn’t they?
RDP houses, Soweto … and jobs are ninety minutes away
As reported in The New York Times, this is often more contentious than it should be:
SOWETO, [...]
By: David A. Smith
Proving that America has no monopoly on good ideas, the impending collapse of Greek finances is revealing, strand by strand, that whatever shenanigans and subterfuges might have been pioneered by the Enrons of this world, the sovereign nations of Europe will have perfected and taken to scale. As reported in the Wall [...]
By: David A. Smith
Am I allowed to gloat?
Not gloating, just celebrating
Back in early December, I posted about Dubai World’s default announcement, calling it ‘a shock of the first magnitude, with consequences that will reverberate for years if not decades.’ In the days that followed the financial press was fully of it-ain’t-that-bad stories as various observers [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
[A full year's Month in Review available here: Dec 09, Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, April 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
In January, aside from one little post about the invisible delights of apartment living (It’s what you [...]
By: David A. Smith
[A full year's Month in Review available here: Dec 09, Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, April 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
A blog is pointillist – sparkly bits of insight (we hope) collected by the roving eye of an intellectual crow. Yet [...]
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