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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Government Housing"”.
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The implications for low income single women of New Zealand government housing policy reform : A dissertation submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Parks and Recreation Management Honours at Lincoln University, Canterbury
In the December 1990 budget, the New Zealand Government announced a number of reforms to Government housing provision. The new policies will result in a shift in Government housing assistance from direct provision to a reliance on private mechanisms and an income supplement. At the time the …
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An evaluation of rural public housing programs in India : a qualitative case-study of problems of beneficiaries in UP state
The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate the government housing programs in rural India through assessing the problems/needs of the beneficiaries who belong to the poorest and most vulnerable group of the society. An adequate study of the needs and perceptions of this group is to be undertaken at a …
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Housing Finance And Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study Of Malawi
… a pipe dream. Efforts to address the continent's housing problem are hampered by high costs of urban land and insufficient tenure security, rising building costs, the prevalence of slums and above all a shortage of affordable housing finance. Due to market failure and resource constraints …
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The Lagunya Lacuna : contestations of legitimacy and agency in housing allocation in a Black Local Authority, 1983-1994
… in order to examine the realities of local government housing administration at the local scale. The New Crossroads housing allocation process illustrates the insider/outsider polemic and the ways in which complex interrelationships developed between the local authorities and the community …
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Testing the appetite of potential players in the housing microfinance field to develop niche loans for backyard shack formalization
Backyard shacks prevalent in new government-sponsored housing developments is a distinctly South African phenomenon (Lemanski, 2009). Conventional housing finance and government housing delivery systems have consistently failed to meet the housing needs of lower income South Africans (Sisulu, …
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Nongovernmental Organizations and their Negotiations for Local Control of Slum and Squatter Housing in Mumbai, India
… arrangements, such as partnerships between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental organizations (GOs), are increasingly regarded by policymakers as critical to effective social sector development. This is particularly true in the arena of housing provision for residents of slums …
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Impacts of recent housing policies on the rental housing market in Korea
This research is concerned with the effects of housing policy on rental housing market in Korea, in particular, the informal housing finance mechanism known as the <i>chonse</i>. In spite of many studies on <i>chonse</i> rental housing market, the relationship between government intervention in the …
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Health Starts in the Home: An Assessment of Efforts to Improve Occupant Health through Healthy Building Materials in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing
… particularly in San Francisco’s affordable housing sector. The Green Science Policy Institute researches the health and ecological effects of chemicals in building products and educates policymakers about safer alternatives. Green building programs like LEED and Enterprise Green Communities …
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Seeds to support future growth : (re)establishment of the dormant Protea Village
This thesis addresses and critiques housing delivery processes currently realised by South African national government. It is argued that a major flaw in this process is resultant from the role taken by government as provider rather than facilitator. Government takes pride in the x-amount of new …
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The role of stakeholders in local economic development: A case study of the Swakopmund municipality
… of them were the Ministry of Regional, Local Government, Housing and Rural Development, Erongo Regional Council (ERC), Municipality of Swakopmund, Namibia Chambers of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) representing Business people, Non-Governmental Organization, Faith-Based Organizations and …
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Effective implementation of value engineering in the housing construction programmes of the UAE
… is one of the major challenges impacting the housing programmes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Therefore, this study was undertaken with the main aim of determining the impacts of the tools and principles of value engineering on public sector housing in the UAE. The study also aimed to …
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Municipal policy and program options for affordable home ownership: a City of Toronto case study
As the level of government closest to people, municipalities are left face-to-face with the failures of the housing market and the lack or failure of senior-level government housing programs. The federal government has practically withdrawn from social housing since the mid-1980s, and most of its …
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Liquid modernity as an analytical framework: a study of isolated northern towns
… and their relationship to regional and central government. Housing and prestige projects are used as exemplars. Bauman contends that we have moved into a new phase of postmodern capitalism in which the ‘winners’, whom he calls tourists, dominate by controlling time. The ‘losers’ – vagabonds – …
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Home, Again: Recommendations for strengthening social and financial post-buyout outcomes of the New Jersey Blue Acres Program
… so, is an increasingly relied upon tool used by government agencies, including the New Jersey Department of Environmental (NJDEP) Protection Blue Acres Program, to adapt within the arena of accelerating climate change. Buyouts act primarily as a form of climate adaptation; residents voluntarily …
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A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents' Psychological Self-Evaluations
Changing urban settlement patterns and government housing policies have combined over the past sixty years to create public housing developments that economically and socially isolate residents within inner-city neighborhoods. Recognizing the oppressive conditions of concentrated poverty, scattered …
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Satisfaction with public housing: the case of Abuja, Nigeria
Public housing programs have been the major tool for providing shelter in Abuja City, Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationships between housing satisfaction and structure types, building features, housing conditions, neighborhood facilities, management, and …
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Developing framework for the reconstruction of housing for the internally displaced people due to conflict
… displaced people are facing is lack of decent housing which has exposed these group of people to all sort of environmental and man-made dangers such as rape, crime, child labour, prostitution and diseases, most especially women and children. Therefore, this research aims at developing a …
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Immigrating to public housing : Haitian immigrants and the transformation of Washington Elms and Newtowne Court
… a neighborhood in which the affordability of the housing stock afforded recent migrants the opportunity to live in close proximity to someone with whom they shared a common culture, experience, and language. After World War II, however, the US rapidly expanded, and with this expansion came the …
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The entrepreneurial state : New York's Urban Development Corporation, an experiment to take charge of affordable housing production, 1968-1975
… supports the creation of most new affordable housing in the United States. Washington's subsidies, which fund housing construction, vouchers, and tax credits, are paired with local development groups, which select sites, design projects, and manage operations. Yet for decades, despite their …
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The homeownership complex: The role of housing stakeholders in the remaking of the U.S. housing market
… dissertation focuses on the making of the U.S. housing market. In the United States, a flourishing housing market depends upon and reproduces the “American dream” of homeownership. Homeownership is a multivalent institution. It can provide shelter, be a mechanism of wealth accumulation, a …
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