Category: Tenure
17 July, 2012 (10:08) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post introduced us, via an aren’t-they-clever little story from the New York Times, so some enterprising young Californian women who’ve started running a chain of white-collar crash pads for aspiring tech entrepreneurs who’d eschew eating and sleeping altogether if they could, and if they [...]
16 July, 2012 (11:41) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure | 1 comment
By:David A. Smith Look – over in Silicon Valley. It’s a hotel! It’s a rooming house! It’s an apartment! No, it’s … Superdorm? Whatever this unusual living accommodation is, it’s serving a need and creating a business, as revealed in this gee-whiz article from the New York Times: Crammed Into Cheap [...]
15 June, 2012 (12:36) | Cairo, Configuration, Egypt, Housing, Markets, Tenure |
By:David A. Smith Sprouting in the desert: October Gardens townhouses When it comes to understanding affordable housing, nothing substitutes for actually seeing the product, as built, in its location – and so, when I had a free day in Cairo a few weeks back, I naturally enough spent it not crawling through the [...]
14 May, 2012 (11:23) | Apartments, Charities, China, Demand, Demographics, Economics, elderly housing, faith-based organizations, Global news, Housing, Production, Tenure |
By:David A. Smith As China ages at warp speed, old notions of intergenerational family structure are giving way to economic pragmatism, and as shown in a recent article from the Economist (April 21, 2012), that is creating intriguing business opportunities that might just change the political ecosystem: Social problem or housing opportunity? [...]
1 May, 2012 (10:53) | Apartments, boomerang generation, Demographics, Economics, Families, Households, Housing, in-law apartments, Markets, multi-households, Tenure, US News |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s post introducing the burgeoning phenomenon of the boomerang generation living at home, using as our source a recent Christian Science Monitor article, introduced us to Cassie Owens. Judging by the story, she’s dedicated, intelligent, and unemployable in anything she’s been educated for (comparative [...]