New Orleans When I’m in India the hawkers, street sellers, and even the recyclers always, and I mean always, ask me what it is like for people who are in their profession in the United States. When I answer the hawkers for example, and say that compared to India, we have almost none, they look at …
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New York’s “Poor Door” Could Lead to Mumbai’s Slum Sister Developments
Dallas So-called voluntary inclusionary zoning in New York City allowing private developers to add more density and receive tax breaks in exchange for constructing a certain number of affordable housing units has led to controversy, as the city tries to make the program mandatory for new developments and as developers exploit loopholes that allow segregation …
Middle Class Movement Takes Needs than Wishing and Hoping in India
Mumbai I’ve been coming to India regularly for over a decade now, several times per year for many years and annually more recently. There have been visible changes, tall apartment blocks growing like weeds, highways under endless construction finally completed, more people with more money more visible, but all of this in a death grip …