Sublime

With Paris being such a desirable place to live, rising housing prices are here to stay. As I learned in San Francisco, if I was going to remain in Paris, the best assurance of staying for the long term was to own a place of my own.

Purchasing property is the male version of nesting, even if it’s not the cleanest, most organized, or well-decorated place you’ve ever seen.

The public officials and professional staff in Job City might be happy to have so much employment but, without the tax base from the housing, they are not going to have much revenue to pay their bills.

The Philadelphia studies suggest that place-based interventions are far more likely to succeed than people-based projects. “Tens of millions of vacant and abandoned properties exist in the United States,” write Branas and his team. Remediation programs “make structural improvements to the very context within which city residents are exposed on a da

The little shop owner thus shared a common fate with other property owners in the city. It was not a zero-sum game, where one benefits only at the expense of others. I’m not suggesting they all lived in harmony, but they had a lot of selfish incentives for altruism.