What they do share is a more conspicuous narrowing of options as more tenants are elbowed out of the Island's flourishing housing market.
According to data collected by Alex J. Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute, a comparison of homeownership among economically advanced countries shows that the United States is in the middle of the pack, which suggests that subsidizing housing with tax breaks is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a flourishing housing market.
It says the aim of Pathfinder is to plough billions of pounds of investment into the area as part of a "major 15-year programme to transform homes and neighbourhoods", turning places with low house prices and low housing demand into flourishing housing markets, with a wide social mix of residents and housing types.
The 62-year-old Rome, once a flourishing movie house, was closed in 1987 as multiplexes flooded the market, and the Spanish-style building -- its distinctive facade intact -- was converted to commercial office space.
Not least are its startling finale and its innumerable lyrical flourishes: a house gate Kwasi remembers from his childhood "turning in its hinge like bone grating in its socket," a Ghanaian preacher in one of his murals, welcoming people to her church and beaming "a great generous smile, as if all her teeth are for sale, her eyes two joyful asterisks".
The expansion of a flourishing social housing sector that places fairness and affordability at its core is becoming increasingly urgent.
Lower Manhattan healed more quickly around its gaping wound than anyone would have thought possible, with a flourishing of housing, restaurants, cultural facilities, and parks.
Apple trees and English-style flower and vegetable gardens flourish near the house.
"It's a moral obligation to make this house flourish again," she said.
I as an olive tree Still green shall flourish: God's house the soil shall be My roots to nourish.
