Category: Tenure

Entrepreneurial barracks: Part 2, the furious future?

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 [...]

Entrepreneurial barracks: Part 1, the blithe present

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 [...]

Affordable housing in Egypt

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 [...]

Faith, home, and elderly charity

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?   [...]

Going to get old real soon? Part 2, the silver (haired) lining?

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 [...]