Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Yesterday’s post introduced permanent supportive housing via a new study, The Costs of Rural Homelessness in Maine (text excerpted in dark green font), with presented eye-popping statistics showing that people who can go home to a permanent supportive housing apartment virtually eliminate their stays in jail or emergency shelters.
What changes when you move people into [...]
In America, generally speaking, if you’re homeless you have a problem beyond mere poverty; something about your situation (substance abuse, domestic abuse, mental problems, a physical disability) is wrecking your life.
The crisis of homelessness in Maine has lasted thirty years and resulted in millions of dollars being spent on shelters, emergency services, and corrections [...]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
When an owner skedaddles, leaving a trail of crumbling buildings and reams of uncured building code violations, whom can we vilify?
Building code violations! New York Times articles! Run away!
Certainly someone is culpable:
At 1744 Clay Avenue, residents have endured winter days without heat and hot water. The super has not been paid [...]
Residential property is an exoskeletal shell that, like the chambered nautilus, is alive only when inhabited, the occupant playing the important role of eternal vigilante.
I may not own it, but I occupy it!
These two roles are best fused via homeownership, where the occupant and the owner are one and the same, but can also [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday we explored how employer-assisted housing payments work, at least in the specific case of Chicago homeownership, via a Chicago Tribune article.
With the inversion in housing policy innovation, advances in workforce housing finance are being led by employers who cannot find employees willing to work for what the employer wants [...]
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