Category: United Kingdom
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]