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Month in Review: February, 2012

4 May, 2012 (10:30) | Admin, Apartments, California, Cuba, Eviction, Global news, Greece, Housing, Land use, Month in review, Moving, Production, Speculation, Travelers, United Kingdom |

[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Jan 12, Dec 11.]   By:David A. Smith   All housing starts with the micro, and February featured three stories that illustrate micro-markets in action, starting with the deflating history that people you thought were your friends now see you as just a charitable benefactor, in Rent as social [...]

Overhousing, the sympathetic scandal: Part 2, Nowhere to go?

23 March, 2012 (09:16) | Affordability, Ecosystem, Housing, Means testing, New York City, Public housing, Rental, Speculation, United Kingdom | 1 comment

By: David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s post, on over-housed low-income elderly people (nearly all women) living alone in apartments that once suited their family but are now largely empty, demonstrated that however much the New York Times (March 13, 2012) and the Queens Times Ledger (December 8, 2011) understandably [...]

Overhousing, the sympathetic scandal: Part 1, No place like home

22 March, 2012 (09:52) | Affordability, Ecosystem, Housing, Means testing, New York City, Public housing, Rental, Speculation, United Kingdom | 3 comments

By:David A. Smith   Can a scandal have no villain?    Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (l.), who once sat on the Committee on Aging, stands with Sen. Toby Stavisky to protest how the New York City Housing Authority went about forcing seniors to move out of their Pomonok Houses apartments.   Because this New York Times [...]

Just looking for a home, lord, lord: Part 3, it’s full of holes

16 February, 2012 (09:06) | Eviction, Land use, Law, Occupy movement, Slums, Travelers, UK News, United Kingdom, Zoning |

By: David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   Well the farmer said to his wife “Honey, what do you think about that? The old boll weevll done made a nest In my brand new Stetson hat, And it’s full of holes, It’s full of holes.   By October, [...]

Just looking for a home, lord, lord: Part 2, in the hot sand

15 February, 2012 (10:43) | Eviction, Global news, Land use, Law, Occupy movement, Slums, Travelers, UK News, United Kingdom, Zoning |

By: David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Then the farmer took the boll weevil, Put him in the hot sand, And the boll weevil said to the farmer, “Well, you are treating me like a man. It’ll be my home, I’ll have a home   Yesterday’s post covered a decade of [...]