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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Rental Housing"”.
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Affordable rental housing delivery in Kenya
Rental housing sector remains a significant housing option and an essential component of a vibrant housing market and construction industry as a whole. However, rental housing markets in most developing countries have been characterized by market failure because of the inability to provide adequate …
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Economies of scale in rental housing
… on high end apartment complexes or low income housing. This survey looks at all levels of housing services and allows a study of property-level economies of scale that cover all levels of the apartment industry. Economic theory of the firm and its application to housing services is reviewed. …
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Rent control of subsidized multifamily rental housing
Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Determinants of the rental housing landlord's renovation decision
Determinants of the rental housing landlord's decision to renovate are investigated using the Property Owners and Managers Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1995. Relationships are examined between the probability of renovation and the financial, managerial, structural, ownership and …
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Overcoming barriers to energy efficiency for rental housing
… face higher hurdles to energy efficiency than rental housing. In this thesis I ask: What are the major barriers to investment in energy efficiency for rental housing? How well do existing policies and programs address these barriers? And finally, which strategies are best suited to overcome the …
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Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime
<p>Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime</p> <p>My dissertation consists of three chapters in the area of applied microeconomics. The first chapter exploits the mass evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents to numerous counties throughout the South in the aftermath of …
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Three Essays on Rental Housing Markets in the United States
What do rental markets look like in the United States today? Over the course of three papers, I investigate rental housing markets in ten of America’s most populous cities: Boston, MA; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; Kansas City, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Nashville, TN; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Seattle, …
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Rental Housing Search and Occupancy Experiences of Veterans with Disabilities
The search for rental housing can be a very stressful and complex process for veterans with service-connected disabilities. This process requires the evaluation of different factors, such as one's credit score, housing costs in relation to income and employment status, space requirements, type of …
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Federal Subsidy Overlap in Affordable Rental Housing in the United States
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) programs are two of the largest affordable rental housing programs in the United States. The LIHTC assists in the development and preservation of affordable housing while the HCV provides subsidies to households to find …
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Financing development of multifamily low income rental housing in Bogotá, Columbia
… Colombia is the shortage of adequate affordable housing for the low income households. By the year 2000, Bogota alone had a housing shortage of about 540 thousand houses concentrated mainly on the three lower socioeconomic levels which represented 86% of the population of the city. As a response …
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Impact of undergraduate students' housing preferences on the Ames rental housing market
<p>http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41484340</p>
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Ordinances to enable energy efficiency in rental housing in the United States
Improved energy efficiency in rental housing is important from the perspectives of environmental, economic, and social policy, but upgrades to such buildings lag those of owner-occupied properties. With myriad reasons to improve the efficiency of this sector, this thesis seeks to better understand …
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Opportunities and obstacles in creating affordable rental housing from bank-owned property
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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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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The Dynamics of Rental Housing Areas in United States Central Cities, 1940--1960
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A development perspective on creating workforce rental housing proximal to major employment centers
… Many of them earn too much money to qualify for rental assistance programs, but don't earn enough to comfortably afford market rents. Developers recognize the need for quality workforce housing close to major employment centers but have been unable to deliver enough projects to satisfy demand. …
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The Interconnection between Net-Zero Building Code and Rental Housing Affordability in Massachusetts
… an increased focus on decarbonization of the housing markets through net-zero energy building codes such as the new “Stretch Code” introduced in Massachusetts. In a quest to achieve declared targets on the “Environmental” front, the “Social” front sometimes gets sacrificed for instance the …
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Off-campus rental housing of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
… the 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 …
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Securitizing suburbia : the financialization of single-family rental housing and the need to redefine "risk"
… have purchased over 200,000 single-family rental homes throughout the nation. Originally, these companies planned to hold the properties until the real estate market improved and then sell the homes to individual buyers. However, they soon realized that they could generate higher returns …
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Public subsidies and private managers: critical issues in the management of federally assisted rental housing.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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