Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
As we saw yesterday, using as our text a protracted City Journal editorial essay by Nicole Gelinas, when eminent domain is used for economic development (ED4ED) with a private developer as the implementing party, the potential for mischief is simply enormous – because the law of economic gravity [...]
By: David A. Smith
Is blight, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?
Houses to be condemned to make way for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Look blighted to you?
Or is blight just a planner’s word for a city’s natural messiness?
Does this look blighted to you?
Though the question is metaphysical, the answer is anything but. On that [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday, in our most recent installment of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, we explored the got-to-be-a-good-idea of smart meters for single-family residential customers. As revealed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, the meters are an unequivocal advance, since they enable both producer and consumer to know what [...]
By: David A. Smith
When people know what they are doing, they do it smarter. That’s the principle behind biofeedback.
Now, as you can see, reading AHI blogs makes you happier
When people know what they are spending, they usually spend less. Of the three main costs of sheltering a family – cost of occupancy, cost of transportation [...]
By: David A. Smith
Would you rather spend $138 and get 360 brand-new objects, or spend $130 and get 269 used objects?
What is this, asks the reader, a trick question?
Not to the New York City Housing Authority, but perhaps to those whose willingness to believe and trust has been incinerated by many years of unfulfilled [...]
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