

Ellen Bassett
- Sep 30, 2020
From Kenya to the World!
Rafiki, 2018. See: https://valleyadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/QA-2-1024x576.jpg When I first arrived in Kenya in 1989, there...

Ellen Bassett
- Mar 6, 2018
The Sharing Economy Reprise: Dorms and Affordable Housing in San Francisco
In an earlier post I discussed research that we hope is forthcoming soon in World Development that looks at the Kenyan housing market. ...


Ellen Bassett
- Jul 13, 2017
The Sharing Economy before The Sharing Economy
A lot is being made out of the idea that we now share key assets like our home and cars. Or that we pay tax dollars to support the...


Ellen Bassett
- Jun 7, 2017
Urbanization and "the Other"
This past week in Portland, Oregon a White Supremacist murdered two men on the city’s light rail train. The men were trying to stop him...