Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
If to a hammer everything looks like a nail, to a government everything should be solved by lawyers, guns, or money. So when the government factory wants to achieve particular public-policy results, it manufactures either or both of its products – laws and money – to motivate private participants, principally Mission Entrepreneurial Entities (MEEs), as [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 5 and the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.]
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust. We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
Let there always be an England!
In a story that proves there’ll always be an England, in Part 1 we met our plucky, ‘attractively disheveled’ English couple, as profiled in a Daily Mail article, who were being assessed the cost of repairing the chancel on a pre-Reformation church in [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
When we left our plucky, ‘attractively disheveled’ English couple, as profiled in a Daily Mail article, they were beset by a maintenance bill for the chancel of St. John the Baptist in Aston Cantlow, assessed by the local PCC, based upon a glebe claim that came as a complete surprise to [...]
“Congratulations, you’ve inherited property. That will cost you …”
Say what?
As I was flying from Boston to Stockholm via Heathrow, I chanced upon a Daily Mail article that opened up vistas of entertainment fodder:
Pay £500,000? God help us, say couple forced by a medieval law to foot the bill for church repairs
Be warned, however – the [...]
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