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Gimme Shelter – 3
A Primer on Housing America In two previous posts I outlined a brief history of affordable housing in the United States and the current mechanisms for creating more. Still, the gap between the affordable housing supply and demand increases. Is … Continue reading
Gimme Shelter – 2
A Primer on Housing America Last week, I provided a brief, if somewhat snarly, history of affordable housing in the United States. Today, I offer an overview of the strategies and mechanisms available to create affordable housing today. Part Two: … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, inclusionary zoning, public housing, Section 8, zoning, zoning reform
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Gimme Shelter
A Primer on Housing America A friend recently asked me how we create affordable housing in the United States. It seemed a simple query. Yet, like so many questions, the deeper I delved, the more complex and frustrating it became. … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, Fair Housing Act, public housing, zoning, zoning reform
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History as Fact—and as Gap
Within a few moments of Clint Smith’s recent Harvard Radcliffe Institute Book Talk about How the Word is Passed, I was fully won over by the man and his message. Mr. Smith is a 33-year-old poet and scholar drenched in … Continue reading
Hope is a Discipline
“Hope is not an emotion…hope is not optimism.” – Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us “Optimism is a state of mind in which you are hopeful that things will turn out well.” – William J. Knaus, … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Haiti, Hope, Hope is a Discipline, Mariame Kaba
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One Night in Tallahassee
I embrace Universal Basic Income and envision the end of work as we know it “Look at you; look at what you’re doing. You’re engaged, you’re learning, you’re sharing. I think that’s useful. We don’t call it work because you’re … Continue reading
Nobody Wants to Work Anymore…a Tale of Three Cities’ Trash
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” I encounter the phrase every day. From retiree’s impatient for the waitress to take their order. From people complaining insufferable wait times to be connected to a customer service rep. In media reports of worker … Continue reading
Tower of e-Babel
Five thousand years ago, give or take a few centuries, the people of the earth, speaking in unified tongue, got together and decided to build a tower to reach the heavens (Genesis 11:1-9). God, ever wary of humans getting uppity, … Continue reading
Education…huh…yeah…What is it Good For?
When Edwin Starr released his anti-anthem “War (What is it Good For?)” in 1970, the number of high school graduates in the United States heading off to college was near peak, just north of 50%. The percentage had been growing … Continue reading
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Tagged college education, culture wars, education, Edwin Starr, F Scott Fitzgerald, GI Bill, Henry Adams, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan
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Comrades! Asexuals of the World! Unite!
I recently copy-edited a Guest Opinion essay by Michele Kirichanskaya for the upcoming issue of GL&R (Gay & Lesbian Review). “How Asexuals Got Organized.” I proof read the article. Made a few grammatical notations. Checked out the website for Asexual … Continue reading
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Tagged asexual, Gay & Lesbian Review, LGBTQIA+, Michele Kirichanskaya, sexual identity
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