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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation comprises three papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War …
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More Than Housing: Re-defining Affordable Housing
… of neighborhoods and lack of affordable housing is causing low-income residents to be displaced and forcing them to look elsewhere for affordable options. The DC neighborhood, Navy Yard, saw one of the most intense displacements of low-income residents. My thesis asks the question: can …
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Terrace housing : providing quality in higher-density housing
The higher demand of higher-density housing in Bangkok due to the rapid growth of the economy and the use of high-performance materials and modern construction methods has changed the forms of housing from low-rise buildings to multistorey apartments. During the last two decades, people in Bangkok …
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Mixed income housing: the Massachusetts housing finance experiment.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. B.S.
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Prefabricated housing, a solution for Ghana's housing shortage
… Governments of these countries, not the least is housing the masses. Some governments have explored industrialized building systems (IBS) -- PREFAB HOUSES to address the housing shortage. The social and economic factors in these countries have impeded the success of these housing initiatives. In …
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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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Student housing
… explores four categories through a student housing project. These categories are balance, strength, structural engineering, and architecture giving rise to references. The thesis is divided into theory, exploration and conclusion.
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Urban housing
As described in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, urban architecture requires a clear division between public and private. In this case, a desire for privacy when living so closely together inspires the idea to articulate the places of the private …
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NEW HIGH DENSITY HOUSING PROTOTYPES : LANDED HOUSING SITUATIONS [2002]
… case towards the pursuit of new architectural housing types which would alleviate the ever present problem of shortage of land. This project begins with a study of the guidelines which define the typology called landed housing. Briefly, we look at existing "next generation" landed housing such …
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Urban housing affordability and housing policy dilemmas in Nigeria
… the increasing importance of affordability in housing policy reform debates, this study develops a new composite approach to measuring housing affordability and employs it to examine the nature of urban housing affordability in Nigeria. The data used in this study are based on the Nigerian …
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Resident housing satisfaction in multifamily housing environments in Korea
Housing environments are important in understanding man's relationship to the built environment, since they represent the most fundamental place for living. Residents' housing satisfaction, as a theoretical construct, has been an important criterion in evaluating the performance of not only the …
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State housing finance agencies and public purpose housing development.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Housing need and housing finance in Jamaica, 1975-1985.
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Housing finance in Jamaica : the National Housing Trust as a model for providing low-income housing?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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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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Housing Diplomacy: US Housing Aid to Latin America, 1949-1973
… Latin American and Caribbean nation to develop housing along US lines. These International Housing efforts were part of larger development aid programs in the region and were implemented to secure alliances, suppress radicalism, and promote the American way of life abroad. The dissertation …
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Modular housing development in Boston : an affordable housing option revisited
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Public housing renovation : an opportunity for a better housing environment
… is that the current renovation program of public housing projects is based on a predominantly physical perspective. Understanding the administrative and implementation aspects of the public housing system, the neighborhood context of the projects, the program's social context, and can make the …
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