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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Housing Choices"”.
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Quality of Urban Life and Intensification: Understanding Housing Choices, Trade-Offs, and the Role of Urban Amenities
… multi-unit, multi-use, and multi-storey attached housing typologies. It will also require social changes in terms of the lifestyle expectations and aspirations of residents. In order to understand the impetus for residents to buy into this mandate for intensification, it will be important to …
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'Knowing me - knowing you': an exploratory and analytical study of the factors at an individual and organisation level which influence housing choices for older people
… demand for health, social care and specialised housing. There is also an added challenge of meeting this growing demand alongside government policy requirements on ‘choice’ and ‘voice’, as they operate in Wales, as well as current and projected fiscal challenges. In the context of the challenges …
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Trapped in One’s Own Housing: The Limitations of Housing Choices in Segregated Roma Neighborhoods = Az én házam az én börtönöm: A lakásdöntések korlátai a szegregátumokban
… in Hungary play a special role in the housing pathways of Roma. Social inequalities associated with the Roma go hand in hand with the spatial distance and segmentation of the housing market. There are drivers at both the policy and contextual level which foster the growth and …
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Family housing in San Fernando, the Philippines : tradeoffs and choices in the use of dwelling space
Households make decisions on housing based on their budgets, preferences, and the family lifecycle. The outcomes we observe are very diverse. This thesis explores the causes and effects of these heterogeneous housing choices by looking at family characteristics including income, occupations, and …
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Systems analysis of major consumer energy decisions
… Decisions Model (CEDM). These decisions included housing choices that affect space heating, water heating, solar photovoltaic and transportation. The CEDM was used to calculate values of recurring and capital cost for all permutations of all the decision components for New York City, Minneapolis …
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Public housing authorities and the challenge of developing affordable housing : the case of the Cambridge Housing Authority
As housing and rent prices continue to rise in cities in the United States, it is becoming increasingly difficult for very low-income households to find decent affordable housing. Public Housing Authorities (PHAs), who are the main providers of housing opportunities to this population, are limited …
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Off-campus rental housing of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
… factors which influence the off-campus rental housing choices of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. An interview schedule was developed and administered by telephone to a random sample of 204 Virginia Tech students who were renting off-campus housing in …
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Enabling environments : people, wheelchairs and standards
… proposal is made in order that a wider range of housing choices be made available to families with chair-bound member(s). In general it was found that most requirements for accessibility did not interfere with the needs of the ambulatory - except in the requirements for counter heights in the …
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A Five State Survey of Heifer Management Practices on Dairy Farms and Virginia Custom Dairy Heifer Growing Operations
… States differed in calving facility and calf housing choices. Calf mortality rates were similar among states. The Virginia Custom Dairy Heifer Rearing Survey included 24 growers. Average herd size was 194 head. Seven growers contracted with dairy producers, nine purchased, raised, and resold …
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Consumption and saving decisions in the face of choices about housing and pensions
… analyses of households' decisions regarding housing and pension wealth accumulation, in forward-looking models. The first of three chapters on housing presents a model of housing demand over the life cycle, and examines its sensitivity to prices and borrowing constraints. Demand responses can …
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Understanding and Incentivizing Workforce Housing: A Professional Project for the City of San Luis Obispo
<p>Adding workforce housing to the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Regulation is a needed component to successfully begin, and promote, the development of housing in the City to those making between 121 and 160% of the Area Median Income. This regulation would ensure eligible households are provided …
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The residential energy map : catalyzing energy efficiency through remote energy assessments and improved data access
… using online interactive maps to inform their housing choices. If energy data is mapped or incorporated into an existing real estate map, energy efficiency could become a valued asset that influences housing decisions and encourages building upgrades by property owners. However, major obstacles …
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Passing through the ages : later-life housing decision-making
… of ageing may then form a barrier to housing decision-making, as to engage with questions of later-life housing is also to engage with later-life identities. This research offers a novel perspective on later-life housing decision-making by introducing a multidimensional framework that …
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Intergenerational Community Developments, ICDs – A Case for Auckland: A Proposed Alternative of Affordable Multifamily Housing for Auckland
Lack of affordable housing has become a central issue in major urban centres of New Zealand. Unprecedented demand for housing in recent years has resulted in high rental costs, increased pressure on the available rental stock, declining rates of homeownership, and a widening gap between the current …
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Alone at home: post-9/11 military veterans and American housing and homelessness policy by Kerry Anna Spitzer.
… is essential that planners consider whether the housing and homelessness policies designed for past generations meet the needs of today's veterans. This is especially true as today's veterans are more likely to be women, are experiencing more deployments, and are frequently coming from …
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Aging America: Essays on Population Aging and the Physical and Economic Landscapes in the United States
… investigates later life entrepreneurship, elder housing choices and the impact of aging on rural prosperity. It appears that age is a factor in later life labor force participation choices, with 61 to 70 year olds and those over 70 years of age exhibiting a greater tendency toward self-employment …
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Housing Behavior of Older Adults in Multifamily Housing
… of their lifecycle stage that could affect their housing choices. Even though single-family, detached housing is the most dominant housing type in the U.S., a significant number of older adults could choose to live in multifamily housing if their motivations and background are understood. The …
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Balancing the scales : the impact of the built environment on the socioeconomic diversity of Metropolitan Boston
… for neighborhood style, location, and housing vary depending on need, resources, culture, and place in life. The city and the suburbs both offer different locations, housing options, and urban design that appeal and are available to different types of individuals. A balanced urban …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… effort to understand the different dimensions of housing and its effects on human life. The concern of housing as an important keystone of social life dates back to the very initial stages of the Neolithic revolution where nomads turned into sedentary tribes because they understood the importance …
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«Give me a break! I'm from Brooklyn, we're not fancy» Institutions, Housing and Lifestyles in Super-gentrification process. A Field and Historical research in Park Slope, New York City
… addresses the influences of displacement, housing- abandonment and resettlement in Super-gentrification processes on 1) the types of institutions that emerged to represent different class interests; 2) the types of social groups that came to inhabit the neighborhood; 3) the pattern of that …