Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As I had shown so far in my fifteen minute talk at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC (here’s the full presentation, link in pdf), informality is the norm in rapidly growing global-south cities. So [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Back in late May, at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC, I had fifteen minutes to describe AHI’s theory of impact in housing finance and slum upgrading, and somehow I managed to distill my full presentation (link in pdf) into [...]
By:David A. Smith A month ago, at the World Bank’s Fifth Global Housing Finance Conference in Washington DC, I delivered (link in pdf) what may prove the most significant talk I’ve ever given. Six words and then some The talk was important not precisely for its content, although that will be the [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's in Part 1.] In yesterday’s post, we compared the public pronouncements of two enormous governmental lenders whose financial viabiltiya nd liquidity are in question: FHA in the US, from the New York Times (in plain text) and the World Bank, from the UK Telegraph (in indigo [...]
By: David A. Smith Can a government bank fail? Something a little less visible than that In the space of a week, that question’s surfaced about two governmental banks – FHA in the US and the World Bank – in stories in the New York Times (which I’ll excerpt in plain text) [...]
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