Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith Homelessness is a failure; on that everyone can agree. But whose is the failure, and whose the responsibility to address it? The question lies, unasked, underneath a surprisingly snippy Economist article: Jean, a 31-year-old homeless man at Canal Saint-Martin, Paris Down and out in Paris The inventor of [...]
By:David A. Smith When it comes to people whom we wish to help with government or charitable resources so that they can change their lives, should we make them prove it first or should we give it first? Is this a good idea? That question lies underneath the design choices within many [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post on the mushrooming of homelessness in Budapest, using a credulous National Public Radio (April 6, 2012) story and a slightly more detailed December, 2011 op-ed (in Georgia font), published in The Observers – France 24, introduced us to unemployed construction worker Zoltan Szarka, [...]
By:David A. Smith Homelessness is a condition, and vagrancy is a decision, a distinction that escaped National Public Radio (April 6, 2012), and the challenges can be seen better a December, 2011 op-ed (in Georgia font), published in The Observers – France 24, by homeless advocate Ballint Vojtonovszki: Hungary’s new anti-vagrancy laws — [...]
[Previous Months in Review available here: Jun 1, May 11, Apr 11, Mar 11, Feb 11, Jan 11] By:David A. Smith Other than the Red Sox, who though successful are not a proper blog subject, there wasn’t much good news during July – Excuse for a gratuitous Red Sox photo – [...]
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