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Paradigm Shift – Part IX: Gen-AI and Factory Built Affordable Housing
The term “efficiency” is in the news these days. However, contrary to the nonsense being peddled by the DOGE crowd, achieving increases in “efficiency,” which is f... … more »
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Paradigm Shift - Part VIII: Gen-AI Can Reduce Housing Costs
As discussed in Paradigm Shift - Part VII: Faster, Cheaper, Better, in many ways the technology being used by design profession is decades ahead of the housing con... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift - Part VII: Faster, Cheaper, Better
Proteins are the building blocks of life. They’re made up of chains of amino acids folded into complex shapes, which determine their function. Understanding the ... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift - Part VI: New Hope for Affordable Housing?
We find ourselves bombarded these day by the one-sided argument that affordability all comes down to housing “supply and demand,” despite no statistical evi... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift - Part V: Automation and AI, Double-edged Swords for the Housing Industry
Hardly a day goes by without hearing about artificial intelligence (AI): how it will take our jobs and take over the world. The rate of change in our lives feels l... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift – Part IV: The Assault on the American Dream
As discussed in “The Gaslighting of Single-Family Zoning” and other articles in the Marin Post, the “American Dream” of single-family, home ownership has been unde... … more »
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National Archives
Paradigm Shift - Part III: How Affordable Housing Need Powered the Modernist Movement
In 1900, about 2.3 million people, two-thirds of New York City’s population, lived in tenement housing, known as “cold-water flats.” The population density per s... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift – Part II: Housing Unaffordability May Be Just Beginning
Karl Marx famously wrote, "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." In the mid-1700s, when the Industrial Revolution began, approxi... … more »
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RIA
Unaffordability
This is a follow-on to “Paradigm Shift: Rethinking Housing Affordability” and “Addressing the Infill, Low-Income Housing Challenge with Private Capital & the 103... … more »
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HUD
Addressing the Infill, Low-Income Housing Challenge with Private Capital & the 1031 Exchange Law
The “Holy Grail” of affordable housing is small-scale, infill, low-income-serving development located near vital public services, employment opportunities, essenti... … more »