Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Now we know that 87 Linden Street, where Binland Lee died in the April 28 fire, was way over-occupied, because that was in the unstated but manifest interest of both landlord and residents. As I’ve observed elsewhere, in any [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the tragic death of Binland Lee, in her attic room in an overcrowded student rental, dealt with the fire’s facts – and if that were all to the story, it would simply be a tragic incident. But everything is connected to everything [...]
By:David A. Smith Tragedy exposes an ecosystem’s weaknesses. A rowdy college party, a lit cigarette, an overcrowded student house, a remote and small-scale landlord, informal subdivisions and excess occupancy, and a building inspection system that gives the illusion of enforcement. Combine them and a young woman is dead. Binland Lee, BU senior … [...]
By: David A. Smith Few things in life are funnier, if you are of a twisted turn of mind, than watching members of the House of Representatives, debating the 1998 ‘reform’ of public housing, taking time to debate the pet rule (24 CFR 960.707). Pets, you see, are the third most destructive force [...]
To-ga! To-ga! To-ga! Students off campus – can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em — at least, that seems to be the prevailing wisdom of the student towns I’ve observed here in greater Boston and elsewhere (as I posted in No adolescents need apply). Even as communities want the ‘right’ sort of people, [...]
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