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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Housing Survey"”.
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A housing survey of Columbia, Missouri
… social life of Columbia, -- the conditions, of housing. The problem of the investigation is whether the people of Columbia are properly housed. A house to house survey was made in typical sections of the city for the purpose of getting the facts. If we shall discover that conditions are not …
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… and owner reported home value using American Housing Survey data. A hedonic price model is developed in order to isolate the impact of home energy use on the owner’s perceived market value of the home. In order to limit the impact of fixed housing characteristics on the model, the fixed effect …
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… and owner reported home value using American Housing Survey data. A hedonic price model is developed in order to isolate the impact of home energy use on the owner’s perceived market value of the home. In order to limit the impact of fixed housing characteristics on the model, the fixed effect …
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Accounting for the Gender Income Gap in Urban China
Using data from the China Housing Survey, that was conducted in 1993, the present study attempts to learn whether and how specific factors--human capital (including education and health), guanxi (social connections), housework, and employment in different sectors of the economy influence the income …
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Gentrification and female headed households: tenure, migration and occupational characteristics of two neighborhoods in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1970-1980
… national decennial census; and the Annual Housing Survey. The Chi square test was used for testing tenure and gender of householders between neighborhoods and between each neighborhood and Raleigh. Findings indicate that for the study period: Both neighborhoods had significantly higher …
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Secondary residential demand trends in contemporary Japan and North Asia
… Europe and North America. In the most recent housing survey conducted by the Japanese government, less than 1% of the housing stock could be considered as, "second dwellings" whilst in France and the US vacation homes make up roughly 10% and 3% (respectively) of the total housing stock. More …
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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
… 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 addition, prior to 1998, capital gains tax provisions introduced a sharp kink in the budget …
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The metabolism of living space : allometric scaling of energy use in UK domestic buildings
… stock. Data is abstracted form the 2012 English Housing Survey (EHS) housing stock dataset, which contains physical and demographic data relating to ~14k randomly sampled households across England. Scaling relationships are established between household size and total energy usage, both across …
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Peri-urban development in Africa: a Kenyan case study
… which are then tested using data from a housing survey done in thirty-two Kenyan cities by the Kenyan government. The first set of hypotheses examined ways in which peri-urban areas differed from central city areas in their physical development. Houses in peri-urban areas were found to be …
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Housing Challenges of Asian and Pacific Island Elders in the United States from 1995 to 2007
… cause low-income immigrants to struggle with housing affordability. Thus, this study examined housing challenges of Asian and Pacific Island elders, focusing on government assistance, and demographic, housing, and neighborhood characteristics. The research framework was based on the theory of …
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A discrete choice model of housing selection by low-income urban renters
… develop a statistical model that classifies the housing problems of affordability, quality and crowding as elements in a choice set facing low-income urban renters, (2) identify the demographic, socioeconomic and regional factors which influence housing outcomes, (3) use the resulting model to …
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Housing Market Choice Patterns of Single Women Homeowners
Housing researchers are aware of the lower homeownership rates and other housing problems of single women but there is very little research focusing on single women homeowners or the characteristics of the housing they buy. Also, since a wide body of research can be found that examines determinants …
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Housing price dynamics and household mobility decisions
… chapter attempts to shed light on the role of housing price dynamics in mobility decisions, asking whether households respond to prices in a forward- or backward-looking manner, and the extent to which high leverage constrains moving behavior. On a broader level, the study tests whether price …
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Assessing the potential of heat pumps to reduce energy-related carbon emissions from UK housing in a changing climate
… residential heat pump installations within a housing stock energy model developed using the English Housing Survey datasets as a data source. Baseline estimates for the current stock were created using data reduction techniques to provide parameters (u-values, glazing details) for the enhanced …
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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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Defects on Building Facades in Desa Bakti Employee Housing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
… Therefore to achieve these objectives a physical survey is conducted within the selected housing area “Desa Bakti” and mapping is done according to the observation by using computer aided drawing tool and then results are calculated to identify the total affected area. It is to add that no special …