Affordable Housing Institute : US

Games are more fun when they’re positive-sum — and this applies very directly to affordable housing and inclusionary zoning.
 

Girls just wanna have sums!
 
Because affordable housing always costs money, some lucky stakeholder must fund the cost-value gap.  While this money ultimately is or derives from government, government often wriggles, seeking to find ‘off budget’ ways of […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
Yesterday, we saw that in his role as sponsor, former Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez, perceiving that his current contract had gone on ‘too long,’ was engaging in a time-honored if not time-endorsed strategy of the deniable strike, probably at the behest of his new agent, […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post starring Manny Ramirez, late of the Red Sox and now tearing the cover off the ball for the Los Angeles Dodgers, had brought him to the point of frustration, because a contract negotiated by Dan Duquette back in 1999 had turned from being a burden on the Sox to […]

Just as sports is a bench-test model for life – things are played out in small, according to prescribed rules, with all results reducible to integral numbers – so too are sports contract negotiations a bench-test model for larger business challenges. 
 

Business ain’t so hard when you have a 0.900 OPS
 
He was so valuable we […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s speculation on the incubation and development of successful mission entrepreneurial entities (MEEs) put forth the thesis that MEEs as businesses as mature when they can operate their business continuously, making money through each iteration of their mission activity. 
 
This makes the MEE itself – the machine that manufactures new mission […]