http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us Affordable Housing Institue Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:40:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By: David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 ,and the previous Part 2and Part 1.]   In yesterday's post continuing our series on the enemies within of slum upgrading, we encountered the vociferous and conveniently righteous landlords, who stand to lose their questionable livelihoods when they face new, better competition.  Next up ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/slums-the-enemy-within-part-4-fifth-columnists.html By: David A. Smith   [Continued from Thursday, October 29th Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]   In yesterday's post, we discovered that despite its many palpable benefits, and the visible reality of its construction, many Kibera residents are greeting Kibera's first slum upgrading with fear.   Kibera in 2005: Whom can you trust?   Background: A while ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/slums-the-enemy-within-part-3-illicit-landlords.html [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday we had brave words and sound logic from Kenneth Feinberg, Treasury's 'special master for compensation,' who as quoted in the Wall Street Journal (quotes in blue Times Roman), hopes his new standards "will be voluntarily picked up" throughout corporate America.   You'll pick it up if you ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-did-part-2-what-i-did.html When we catch someone saying one thing and doing another, the juxtaposition is too much fun to resist – as in this case where the government, with full righteousness, said one thing only weeks after having done the exact opposite.   The huge banking institution is giving their new CFO compensation worth ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-did-part-1-what-i-say.html 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 ... http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2009/11/mutual-stalemate.html