Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday’s part 1.]
“But I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. “
– Jake Gittes, Chinatown
Yesterday’s post opened up the challenge of preserving old buildings that contribute to a city’s diversity, character, and with any luck economic competitiveness while at the same time not letting the taste [...]
“‘Course I’m respectable! I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores, all get respectable if they last long enough.”
– Millionaire Noah Cross, Chinatown
Urbanists like me love old buildings in cities, because they create visual and usage texture and diversity, part of the complexity that makes cities magnets for entrepreneurs and wealth-generating engines.
We also like [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s exploration of the interesting experiment of co-housing, based on a sympathetic Boston Globe account, had reached the point of a completed development, using as an anti-snob crowbar the powerful lever of Massachusetts’ Chapter 40B law to produce a development that the founders swear up down and sideways ‘will’ be green. [...]
The older I get, the less faith I place in future-tense verbs.
Character is what you are in the dark
Thus it was with a fair dose of jaundice that I read a sympathetic Boston Globe account of a new approach to affordable housing, co-housing:
Co-housing? Bah, humbug!
The idea started small. Kathy Journeay and a few close friends [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
You think that’ll impress me?
So far, in examining the ruling (available here in .pdf) that remanded back to district court a series of actual questions about whether the Paradise Park residents were entitled to the New Jersey Mobile Home Protection Act, we’ve seen that [...]
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