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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"housing choice"”.
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Essays on annuitization and housing choice
… is the most important source of wealth and housing is the most important risky asset. A natural intuition is thus that households whose incomes covary relatively strongly with housing prices should own relatively little housing. Under plausible assumptions on preferences and distributions, …
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An analysis of judgemental bias in housing choice
Buying a home is among the most important choices that any individual is likely to make in their lifetime. It has lasting consequences for happiness, well-being and personal finances. Yet, given the infrequency with which such decisions are made; the difficulty getting information from an opaque …
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An asset-based theory of housing choice under credit constraints : the case of Korea
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance
… critical role of landlords in implementing the Housing Choice Voucher program. Housing choice vouchers provide tenant-based rental assistance to low-income families so that they can have greater opportunities to select apartments and locations than under other rental housing assistance programs. …
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Influence of Lifestyle on Housing Preferences of Multifamily Housing Residents
… the lifestyle concept rarely has been applied to housing studies. Although renting a multifamily dwelling is a non-normative housing choice in the United States, many people prefer to rent multifamily housing units for reasons other than financial. The purpose of this study is to identify the …
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A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND NIMBY IN A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTY
… study to focus on the challenges with affordable housing and concentrations of Housing Choice Voucher recipients in a county in Southern California. Viewed through the lens of Social Stratification posed by Max Weber, ones opportunities in life are based on his/her position of class, status and …
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Off-campus rental housing of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
… 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 in …
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Three Essays on Partial Identification for Applied Health Economics
… relationships.The first chapter studies the Housing Choice Voucher program in the United States and estimates bounds on the effect that receiving this form of housing assistance has on self-reported health status and the likelihood of hospitalization within the eligible population of renters. …
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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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'Knowing me - knowing you': an exploratory and analytical study of the factors at an individual and organisation level which influence housing choices for older people
… demand for health, social care and specialised housing. There is also an added challenge of meeting this growing demand alongside government policy requirements on ‘choice’ and ‘voice’, as they operate in Wales, as well as current and projected fiscal challenges. In the context of the challenges …
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The social ecosystem for revitalizing two- to four-unit buildings in Woodlawn : a case study and strategic plan
… hinder their success. Applied to the particular housing and community development challenge facing 2-4 unit properties in the Chicago neighborhood of Woodlawn, the standard social ecosystem model is augmented with an explicit incorporation of a development process to emphasize the importance of …
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Sustainable Homes for All: Designing a Clean Energy Incentive for Boston’s Section 8 HCV Landlords to Improve Tenant Quality of Life
… decarbonization in the residential sector given housing's significant contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. Low-income housing is particularly energy inefficient, contributing to harmful environmental outcomes and health and financial challenges for tenants. The Boston Housing Authority …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… failing to meet its Affirmatively Further Fair Housing obligation for Community Development Block Grant funds received between 2000 and 2006. While Westchester County argued that it had an impressive affordable housing development record, ADC claimed that the County had not done the required …
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Double-dipping or lagniappe? : a study on the use of tenant-based vouchers in low-income housing tax credit developments in New Orleans, Louisiana
… New Orleans demolished nearly all of its public housing. Mirroring a national trend, not all of it was replaced. What was replaced largely took different forms: tenants received portable Housing Choice Vouchers and developers built new housing subsidized by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit …
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The unfulfilled promise of neoliberal housing policy : how the dynamics of the rental housing market influence the spatial concentration of voucher holders in New York City
This thesis seeks to understand how rental housing market dynamics-particularly landlord behavior, and the policies and players that shape it-contribute to the spatial clustering of households that participate in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program in New York City. Scholars have long been …
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Title : community integration among formerly homeless veterans
… homeless Veterans housed under the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program. HUD-VASH provides homeless Veterans with affordable housing subsidies and supportive services, including non-mandated linkages to healthcare. The program functions …
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Moving towards disaster: examining the changing patterns of social vulnerability in a multi-hazard urban environment
… and that the provision of subsidized low-income housing influences the hazard exposure of socially vulnerable populations. This is accomplished first by studying three cities in the Gulf coast region (Houston, New Orleans, and Tampa) and then by focusing on Houston, Texas as a case study city for …
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Does energy follow urban form? : an examination of neighborhoods and transport energy use in Jinan, China
… in the short-term directly influence households' choices of their travel patterns by changing incurred trip costs (disutilities) and realization benefits (positive utilities) among alternatives; 2) in the long-term indirectly influence patterns by affecting households' attitudes and their choices …
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"Shelter within my reach" : medium rise apartment housing for the middle income group in Karachi, Pakistan
… of medium rise (five storied or less) apartment housing built by the private formal sector, catering to the middle income groups in Karachi, Pakistan. Middle income housing production is constrained due to the lack of support and a passive attitude adopted by the local public agencies, leaving a …
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Aging America: Essays on Population Aging and the Physical and Economic Landscapes in the United States
… investigates later life entrepreneurship, elder housing choices and the impact of aging on rural prosperity. It appears that age is a factor in later life labor force participation choices, with 61 to 70 year olds and those over 70 years of age exhibiting a greater tendency toward self-employment …
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