Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith How safe, whose responsibility, and at what price? Yesterday’s post,, based on an article from Crains New York (March 12, 2013), explored a little-known but large cost of construction in New York properties – the judicial standard of absolute liability that has the effect [...]
By:David A. Smith Lunch atop a skyscraper: workers on the Empire State Building construction (The photo was staged, but it’s still a killer image.) Though goodness knows I shouldn’t be, I am constantly surprised by the shortsightedness of those who defend anachronistic laws that nevertheless benefit them, and even more surprised by the [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith In yesterday’s post, using as its source an AP story reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, I delved deeply into China’s efforts to shift their construction-in-overdrive model from building luxury flats (that it appears people increasingly will not buy) into building affordable flats where they [...]
By:David A. Smith If you build it, they may not come – not if they have to pay for it. Though many are the times I’ve warned them, China’s leaders have not heard this, and they are about to find out, as reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Hangzhou, China – At [...]
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