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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"housing crisis"”.
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An architectural response to the housing crisis
An investigation into the characteristics of the housing crisis was conducted to identify a number of opportunities through which the architectural profession might contribute to the resolution of the housing crisis. These opportunities were evaluated and used as organizing elements in the …
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Addressing Homelessness and Housing Crisis in Windsor-Essex County
… human rights, including the right to affordable housing. By ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1976 and assenting to the National Housing Strategy Act in 2019, Canada affirmed its commitment to the progressive realization of the right to …
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Iraq's housing crisis : upgrading settlements for IDPS (internally displaced persons)
… have exhibited user-initiated incremental housing processes. The topic of this thesis is upgrading settlements for IDPs in Baghdad, Iraq through user-initiated methods. Baghdad is facing an overwhelming amount of sub-standard IDP settlements, and while some settlements are turning into …
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The housing market and the housing crisis in urban penninsular Malaysia.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The (home)sharing economy : a viable solution to the affordable housing crisis?
… possible mechanism to address both the current housing affordability challenge and the growing demand to age in place is the low-cost, self-help model of homesharing, where two or more unrelated people live together in a single dwelling. Agency-assisted homesharing emerged in the 1970's, through …
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Reimagining Public Land: Municipal Land Use to Ease Housing Crisis in Boston
Boston is in the midst of a severe housing crisis, driven by decades of underproduction, rising construction costs, restrictive zoning, and an inelastic real estate market that has resulted in persistent affordability challenges. This thesis explores the untapped potential of city-owned land as a …
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Toronto's Housing Crisis: An Intersectional Politics of Housing and Settlement Services for Refugees
… I unpack the intersectional politics of the housing crisis in Toronto through the perspectives of frontline staff working in non-profit organisations. Two critical questions frame this study. Firstly, how have service providers addressed the housing and settlement needs of refugees in the …
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Solving the housing crisis in San Francisco with factory-built housing technology and regulatory reform
The San Francisco Bay Area is in the midst of a housing crisis as population and economic growth outstrip the ability of developers to build enough housing, resulting in a significant supply-demand imbalance that is expected to last well into the foreseeable future. San Francisco, in particular, …
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The urban housing crisis and a cultural framework for housing policy: the Ajegunle community case study
This study presents the argument that if housing provision should be orientated towards long-term goals and solutions, then housing policy must consider surely the cultural requirements of the people in the community. Cultural dimension as it relates to the study focuses on urban housing as a …
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Exploring the Potential of 3D Printing Construction to Address the Housing Crisis for South Sudanese Refugees
… Sudan currently has the third largest refugee crisis around the globe, with over 3.7 million people being displaced from their homes due to ethnic and political civil war. Over 2 million of these refugees have been displaced from their home country, seeking asylum in refugee settlements that …
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The Man with the Bag: An Autoethnographic Exploration into Practitioner Experience of Working in the Activation Paradigm During Ireland’s Housing Crisis.
… service, within the activation paradigm. A housing crisis has engulfed Ireland. The future of the service where I work lies in limbo. It is deeply unsettling times. Presented in three parts, Part 1 begins in 2017 as a battle, as I struggle to work in a person-centred way, within the closing …
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Airbnb in the Age of a Housing Crisis: A Case Study of Housing Affordability and Vacation Rental Regulations in Niagara Falls, ON
This research focuses on housing in the context of growing unaffordability and increasing popularity of Airbnb in Niagara Falls, Ontario. In a city like Niagara Falls, which sees 12 million tourists annually, vacation rentals have become a highly profitable business. However, Niagara Falls is also …
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They come here and take our houses! : community conflicts in Langa in the context of the housing crisis in Cape Town : borners against migrants
… first 'free and fair' elections, the promise of 'housing for all' again formed an important part of the vision of a 'new' South Africa. Yet in Cape Town, thirteen years later, the promises of housing for all conflicts strongly with the reality of an increasing housing backlog in the city. Apart …
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Aspirational Homeownership in a Time of Crisis: An ethnography of new homeowners in an Ottawa suburb
… 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 housing market that left them in precarious financial situations. With the housing crisis such a major part of …
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Empowering community and philanthropic funders: The case for investment in non-market housing
… New Zealand is in the middle of a prolonged housing crisis. This is marked by a chronic undersupply of private and non-market housing which has created social, health, and economic inequities. Māori communities are disproportionately affected, consistently experiencing the highest rates of …
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Housing policy, design, and struggle: The colonial production of space of Israel/Palestine, one new city at a time
Housing policy and housing design have a long history as instruments of colonial domination in Israel and as strategies for shaping the Jewish state as such. This thesis examines how a housing crisis framework, including local struggles for the right to housing, may be utilised by the Israeli …
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Housing in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is experiencing a housing crisis with the cost of housing increasing more rapidly than in any other comparable coastal state over the past 40 years. This growth in the cost of housing has far outpaced the growth in household income. This thesis explores state economics, the housing …
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"Down with the landlords" : tenant activism in New York City, 1917-1920
… years of tenant agitation and activism during a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. Tenants worked collectively, employed the techniques of labor unions, and lobbied their state legislature, governor, and even the president for relief. This thesis examines in more detail the tenant …
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Towards Public Housing: Architecture as (Prop)aganda
Capitalism sustains crisis, most acutely the housing crisis. The only way out is to de-commodify housing, since a building alone, despite architects’ aspirations, cannot tackle a system. This thesis claims that built architecture alone ineffectively challenges regulatory systems. Resistance’s …
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Data and decontrol : a civic-tech approach for identification of predatory landlords in the New York City rent-regulated housing market
… York City in the throes of a severe affordable housing crisis, the City government and housing advocates have worked tirelessly towards the identification of landlords whose profit model is based on fraudulent deregulation of the rent-regulated housing stock. The problem is that these bad actors …
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