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Showing 1 to 20 of 200 for “"homeowners"”.
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Neighborhood Attributes Desired by Doylestown Homeowners
Debate over land development continues to be an issue of dissension between developers and designer. Of particular contention is the issue of neighborhood design. A sector of the design profession has developed a paradigm primarily based on neighborhood design/development of the early twentieth …
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Tax policy, housing markets, and elderly homeowners
… of tax policy on housing markets and elderly homeowners. Chapter One examines the potential lock-in effect of capital gains taxation on home sales, using the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA97) as a policy instrument. Before 1997, homeowners were subject to capital gains taxation when they …
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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 Satisfaction Among Homeowners: An Examination of the Determinants
The purpose of this study was to identify significant determinants of consumers' satisfaction with housing. It was assumed that two types of factors, (1) characteristics of the consumers and (2) attributes of housing, might influence housing satisfaction.
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Homeowners' Responses to Wildfire Risks and Hazards in Sothwestern Montana
… of forested areas, the need to understand how homeowners’ vulnerability to wildfire risk and hazards can be reduced becomes increasingly relevant to national, state, and local wildfire policy and risk mitigation programs.
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Homeowners' Responses to Wildfire Risks and Hazards in Sothwestern Montana
… of forested areas, the need to understand how homeowners’ vulnerability to wildfire risk and hazards can be reduced becomes increasingly relevant to national, state, and local wildfire policy and risk mitigation programs.
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Pathways to Net Zero: Financing Strategies For Low-Income Homeowners
… pose challenges for incentivizing low-income homeowners to retrofit their homes. Proactive strategizing that considers both educational and economic factors are needed to see increased retrofit adoption amongst these groups. Policy makers need an understanding of retrofit impact for more …
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A green residential wish list : most important features according to homeowners
… This research employs a survey to explore homeowners' general attitude towards green homes. Likert-type scales and multiple-choice questions incorporate measures of environmental concern and perceptions about green homes related to worldviews, lifestyles and economic concerns. A …
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Representations of Place: Perspectives From Seasonal Homeowners, Local Residents, and Mass Media
This dissertation is an attempt to bridge the gap between place theories and more narrative approaches. To this end, a mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches were used. This diversity in methods allows for a deeper understanding of place by incorporating multiple representations of …
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Room for rent : a study of older homeowners in Boston's South End
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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Characteristics and practices of financially-stressed homeowners in Prince William County, Virginia
… to examine characteristics of overextended homeowners and to determine to what extent financial difficulty, as measured by the back-end financial ratio (principal, interest, taxes, and insurance, plus consumer credit payments, divided by gross monthly income), can be explained by a …
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Participation in the UK National Home Energy Efficiency Programmes : a study of homeowners' perspectives
… out. This thesis sought to investigate, from the homeowners' perspectives, the efficacy of these programmes: it reviewed pro-environmental behaviour change theories and identified energy programmes' key aspects before proposing an evidence-based theoretical framework for the design of future …
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Domesticating energy efficiency technologies: understanding the ‘adopter’ perspectives of UK homeowners in existing housing
… the reasons why a small proportion of homeowners have succeeded in adopting EET, and explains how they learn to live with and embed innovative EET into their everyday lives. Using the conceptual lens of Domestication theory (DT) applied to the activities of early adopters of technology, …
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From Homeownership to Foreclosure: Exploring the Meanings Homeowners Associate with the Lived Experience of Foreclosure
… analysis that explored the meanings homeowners associated with their lived experience of foreclosure. In the wake of the 2006 housing crash and 2008 Great Recession, questions have been posed about the continued efficacy of homeownership as an asset-based strategy. In addition, the …
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Aspirational Homeownership in a Time of Crisis: An ethnography of new homeowners in an Ottawa suburb
While homeownership in Canada has been out of reach for many Canadians for decades, the economic and social conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic propelled the housing market further beyond the means of many young Canadians. Despite the expanding costs, young Canadians continued to jump into a …
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Motivational Goals of Seattle Homeowners Related to Their Yards: Implications for Ecosystem Service Assessments and Behavioral Appeals
… 17 semi-structured interviews with Seattle homeowners to understand the benefits for which they manage their properties. What motivates their engagement with ecosystem services derived from their properties? What are some of the salient values homeowners attribute to their properties that …
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Informed home energy behavior : developing a tool for homeowners to monitor, plan and learn about energy conservation
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.
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An Exploration of Relocation Decision-making and Experience: Wellbeing and Chronic Stress Outcomes for Older Under- Occupying Homeowners
… decisions, experience and efficacy of 39 female homeowners, living alone in or near London, around downsizing to retirement housing. The focus was on wellbeing and chronic stress for participants who moved or did not. The timespan was: (1) ‘decision-making’ five months before the move, (2) just …
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The Differential Impact of the Senior Citizens Homestead and Homeowners Property Exemptions on Four Suburban Cook County School Districts
… the Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption and the Homeowners Exemption Program originally enacted in 1971 and subsequently increased by the Illinois State Legislature. Four suburban Cook County school districts are examined to determine the influence of lost tax revenues on the operations of the …
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Exploring expected roles and responsibilities of waste pickers and homeowners in the waste picker integration process: a case study
… in middle- and upper-class areas, where many homeowners have been found to hold negative perceptions towards street waste pickers and their work. In this relationship, homeowners have the ability to not allow waste pickers to access recyclables by withholding waste or closing off communities …
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