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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"home ownership"”.
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Home ownership for low-income people.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1968. M.C.P.
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Micro-home ownership in a mega-metropolis
… with today's globally networked society, the home is reconceived as a portable, transformable device that adapts and reconfigures itself to coexist within a range of changing terrains. Ownership will no longer act as a geographical constraint limiting world-wide, long-term travel. Mobile …
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Gender dynamics in home ownership in Kampala, Uganda
… women in Kampala, Uganda are unable to become homeowners during marriage and at widowhood. In the process, the study also explores the special mechanisms through which married women became homeowners through marriage and at widowhood. The study was premised on the assumption that gender …
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Consumption and home ownership: the evolving meaning of home
… examines the transformation of a house into a home, and describes four ways by which the informants for this study made this transformation. Chapter four provides an interpretation of the emergent themes discussed in chapters two and three, and suggests the home is a continuously evolving …
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Creating neighborhoods--a revitalization & home ownership plan for New Orleans
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Municipal policy and program options for affordable home ownership: a City of Toronto case study
… housing since the mid-1980s, and most of its home ownership programs do not address home ownership affordability. The Ontario government is the only provincial government to step into the gap, and it is now under increasingly serious financial pressure. Municipalities, therefore, are often …
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The Problems Created by the Practices and Requirements of Home Mortgage Lenders on Home Ownership
… the functions they perform on the likelihood of home ownership by low-income minority groups.|Adequate housing for United States citizens has long been a goal of this country. Property ownership is considered desirable in our society and important to the well-being of our people. It is with this …
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Chance to own : a consumer-based assessment of the Section 235 Program of lower-income home ownership
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1977.
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Lessons From President Moon Jae In’s Housing Policy and The Road to Affordable Home Ownership in Seoul, South Korea
… This thesis studies the provision of affordable homeownership in Seoul, South Korea and particularly for non-homeowners and first-time buyers who did not have an opportunity to participate in the housing boom that the previous generations experienced. For Seoul, 58% of the population is …
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Housing wealth and accumulation: Home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970
The housing wealth experiences of ethnic minority home owners is relatively unexplored within the UK literature. This thesis makes a contribution to this field by exploring the experiences of African Caribbean post war families. There are a number of original points of departure to this literature …
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Cost effective strategies in rehabilitation for affordable home ownership projects : an analysis of the LISC 1-4 family program for Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Becoming a first-time home owner: an analysis of household life history data
… the determinants of becoming a first-time home owner through an analysis of event history data. The data, originally in the form of family and residential histories since household formation, were transformed into a yearly longitudinal form of record for each household's life and referred …
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Living large : an alternative model for urban living
… become more of a liability than a dream. Lack of home ownership in New York City has reached an extreme- more than 75% of residents rent rather than own. In light of this trend, this thesis seeks to imagine, through architecture, a new kind of American dream: housing for nomads where no one owns …
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Längtans och drömmarnas hus - Ideal och praktik bland en ny generation stugägare
This dissertation examines second home ownership among a new generation of urban middle-class Swedes between the years 2015-2020. The main aim is to analyse motivation for buying one´s own second home, with the further purpose of illuminating how interviewees negotiate ideal lifestyles and …
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The residential mobility of the Malay middle class in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
… housing search, housing and locational choice, home ownership, and the spatial outcome of residential mobility. The study examines the factors leading to housing relocation amongst the Malay middle-class households. The aim of the study is to assess the relative importance of household …
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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
… 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 constraints. They are either too …
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Urban Law and Housing Policy in Zambia
… were evolved during the colonial era, namely home ownership and housing tied to employment, the emphasis is therefore on the legacies of the colonial housing system. Chapter Three; The Chapter discusses the policies adopted by the government after independence which are home ownership within …
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town
… that stress the social and historical aspects of home-ownership.
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At Home In the City: an exploration of the relationship between density, privacy, and flexibility in urban housing
… be far more luxurious than the detached country home, provided both alternatives offer identical, house-like qualities of living: in the interior and at the transition to the appropriate exterior space - a small yard, a winter garden or a roof patio... ...the decision to opt for home ownership …
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A security plan for the family man? : capitalisation of the family benefit and the Second Labour Government : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University
… lump sum for the purpose of purchasing a family home. The study traces the development of the policy from the time it was adopted by the Labour Party in 1954, through the process of translating policy into legislation after Labour became the Government in 1957 and its passage through the House in …
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