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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Housing - Demand"”.
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Housing demand prediction in Selangor
Housing provision is one of the important sectors in ensuring socio-economic stability in Selangor as well as direct contributor to its economic growth. Its populations increased from 4.2 million in year 2000 to 6.3 million people in year 2016 affected the demand for housing. Thus, the sufficient …
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Housing demand prediction in Penang, Malaysia
… units. However, in Penang, it was estimated the demand to reach a total of 46,740 units due to the growing number of populations, formation of new households and the replacement of existing houses. Crucial housing challenge in Malaysia, especially in Penang is majorly related to a mismatch in …
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation comprises three papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War …
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Housing demand, regional house prices and consumption
… for regional variation in the 2000-2012 housing and consumption boom and bust. Cities with a greater share of growing industries experienced larger housing demand shocks, larger house price increases from 2001-2006 and greater price declines from 2006-2011. Consistent with theory, price …
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Forecasting housing demand in Terengganu using multinomial logit
Housing demand is defined as the number of homes needed as residence per household. There are 3 types of housing developed in Terengganu which are low medium cost housing, medium cost housing and high cost housing. According to the NAPIC, during the 2nd quarter of 2016, Terengganu recorded the …
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A quantitative analysis of factors influencing housing demand in SA
… crisis, which was heavily influenced by the housing market bubble, studying the housing market has become a subject of major interest to many scholars and investors globally. Literature identifies several key factors that influence housing demand including, employment, income levels, gross …
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Housing demand and supply in Umlazi township: towards a post apartheid policy
Housing demand has been explained in this investigation as the amount of housing perceived to be required by the Umlazi populace. Housing supply is usually determined by the rate of demand, which in many instances supersedes supply. In an ideal situation, a standing post-apartheid housing policy …
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Predicting residential demand: applying random forest to predict housing demand in Cape Town
… to an understanding of the complex nature of housing demand. A key finding is that the Census variables available for the models are not discriminatory enough to enable the high degree of accuracy expected from a predictive model.
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The potential carbon dioxide emissions reduction when energy service interventions are applied to the current subsidised housing demand
This dissertation examines the role of subsidised housing in reducing carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in South Africa. Climate change is an occurring event and is largely caused by human activities, such as the production of energy from fossil fuels (NRC, 2010). Buildings are seen as one of the …
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Revisiting the Housing Allowance Algorithm and its Theoretical Implications on Rental Housing Demand and Rents. Evidence from New Zealand.
… residential market in New Zealand. Generally, housing allowances are argued to be inflationary due to the programmes reliance on the market to satisfy the ‘subsidized’ demand. This argument makes it market distortionary a priori. I deconstruct the modern housing allowance algorithm (for rent) …
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The Econometrics of Piecewise Linear Budget Constraints With Skewed Error Distributons: An Application To Housing Demand In The Presence Of Capital Gains Taxation
… kinks in the budget constraint cause consumer demand to be skewed. To illustrate the principles I focus on the demand for owner-occupied housing. Housing units are indivisible and heterogeneous while tastes for housing are at least partly idiosyncratic, causing housing markets to be thin. In …
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The demand for nonfarm housing: a time series analysis
… of bias in the estimates of the elasticities of housing demand and estimate the demand functions for housing with emphasis on the problem of identification. The main finding of this study is that the permanent income elasticity of housing demand is about 0.3 and the price elasticity of housing …
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Towards innovative approaches for affordable housing in the gap market : a case study of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa
… has been noted in the provision of affordable housing and subsequently home ownership for lower income households, housing demand continue to far outstrip delivery capacity. Those excluded from homeownership include key public sector workers and laborers who face common, but divergent …
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Housing markets : Mexico
… to help find the major areas of opportunity for housing development and production in Mexico. The thesis intends to help developers in their eternal quest for the right product, location and timing. The answer to these questions will not only help developers with decision making regarding housing …
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Essays on housing economics and real estate finance
… three chapters on topics in the field of housing economics and real estate finance. This first chapter examines the impact of mortgage credit supply contraction on the supply and pricing of rental housing in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. We provide estimates of (1) the size …
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The effect of interest rates on the demand for mortgage credit in South Africa
… the interest rate elasticity of mortgage demand along the intensive margin in South Africa. I find that homebuyers increase the size of the mortgage they take out by 2.8 percent in response to a 1 percentage point decrease in the prime interest rate. Additionally, I explore the effect on …
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Essays on the interactions of local economies and their macroeconomic implications
… Chapter 1 argues that local labor demand shocks are amplified by migration. I document that within-U.S. migration causes a large reduction in the unemployment rate of the receiving city, over several years. To establish the causal effect of inmigration, I construct a plausibly …
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Essays in real estate and finance
… safer borrowers. The second chapter shows that housing demand shocks from 2000-2006 are highly correlated the elasticity of housing supply in different regions, and explores the implications of this for research on the effects of housing prices. The third chapter, written with Gregory Howard, …
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The Evolution of Urban Community Development Corporations in Response to Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
… process, and the growing need for affordable housing were other barriers. Increasing public interest in affordable housing, the need for new housing types and increased housing demand present new opportunities. Atlanta also has new public policies supporting housing. In response, CDCs in both …
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Neighborhood design for Cambridge
… the problem of modest high-density low-rise housing design for a site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It considers first the general changes in housing demand and the housing industry which have made it necessary to re-evaluate the traditional solution of the detached single-family home in the …
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