Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, using as a convenient seed an upbeat article from CNN (January 8, 2013), introduced the concept of a core house, plus technological gadgets, as an improvable ‘fruitcake house’. Construction of a basic core house, with a malleable or modifiable material for walls and [...]
By:David A. Smith While for some of us a house is a completed product, something we buy one day and use the next (after enduring the travails of moving), but that’s an illusion, as even our completed house begins changing the day we move in – and for most of the world, a home [...]
By:David A. Smith Which is easier to relocate, a job or a home? The joke is told of the economist with one foot in a bucket of boiling water, the other in a bucket of ice: “On average, I’m doing fine.” At the moment, I’m doing fine That question came up [...]
By:David A. Smith Let’s pretend for a moment that you’re the most powerful nation on Earth, yet facing a deadly asymmetric threat – terrorist infiltration, or even home-radicalized terrorists in waiting. They say I’m paranoid Your military might is enormous – so enormous that you can’t use them, because laying waste to [...]
By: David A. Smith In yesterday’s post, we were introduced, via a Wall Street Journal article, to a coming attraction in residential property – homes and apartments – very smart meters that enable utilities to price energy (especially electricity) dynamically, charging you more at peak times, less when lower capacity is being used. [...]
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