Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In Part 1 of my idle speculative exploration of the Restrictive Declaration for Trump SoHo’s hotel condominium, we heard the property’s critics complaining that:
“The restrictive declaration is a sham, a fig leaf designed to cover up the obscene decision of allowing this monstrosity where the law clearly prohibits it,” [...]
This post is equal parts silly and serious.
Well, it’s slightly silly
The silly part is Donald Trump’s condo hotel in SoHo; the serious part is a post-graduate exercise in contract enforcement and its possible evasion.
Reward for reading this blog post
Last Monday, I posted about Donald Trump’s portable hole — his use of [...]
A year ago, in my four-part post De Soto’s Dryer (see also Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I remarked on the intersection between affordable housing and immigration both legal and illegal, as well as on the complexities of immigrant and housing enforcement:
I venture into this subject with great trepidation — it’s absolutely not [...]
“Holmes,” said Watson, turning a five-pound note between his fingers, “I’ve been thinking back to our visit to your brother Mycroft and that extraordinary bank — I should say, investment bank — of which he is a director.”
The carriage of a banker: Mycroft Holmes
Holmes looked up from the Times, where he had been perusing the foreclosure notices [...]
It sounds like a misprint — a non-profit that gives low-income borrowers money for the down payment on their first home, and HUD wants to shut it down — indeed, to shut down a whole industry? Have they got something against charity?
Are you questioning my motives, young man?
As reported on Bloomberg:
May 8 (Bloomberg) — [...]
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