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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"housing policies"”.
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Planning sustainable cities: Coordinating accessibility improvements with housing policies
… the world are experimenting with ‘car-lite’ policies that aim to reduce auto ownership and use (and emissions) with the help of emerging mobilities, transit improvements, and/or urban design. Therefore, it becomes important to understand the near-term effects of emerging mobilities on …
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A comparative analysis of housing policies of Namibia and South Africa
… and South Africa have had mixed success in their housing policies since the advent of democracy in both countries in the 1990s. This paper proceeds from the hypothesis that each country can learn useful lessons from each other in respect of housing policy. The primary purpose of this research was …
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Effects of housing policies on intra-urban inequality in transitioning China
In the People's Republic of China, housing reform was launched in the 1980s as a component of the overall economic reform. In the 1990s, housing policies, privatization and subsidies combined, were found to contribute to over one-third of the overall inequality in urban income distribution in …
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Property values, housing subsidies and incentives : evidence from Chile's current housing policies
… study evaluates the performance of low income housing subsidy programs currently operating in Chile. The use of detailed microdata allows a close assessment of the relationship between individual subsidy grants, characteristics of the units purchased and actual transaction prices. The study …
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Impacts of recent housing policies on the rental housing market in Korea
This research is concerned with the effects of housing policy on rental housing market in Korea, in particular, the informal housing finance mechanism known as the <i>chonse</i>. In spite of many studies on <i>chonse</i> rental housing market, the relationship between government intervention in the …
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
… and the deployment of a wide gamut of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality can be produced …
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The impacts of international non governmental organisation networks on housing policies : a study of Kenya
An assessment of the influences and impacts of development NGOs reveal that in spite of their diverse and resourceful nature, NGOs working in the field of advocacy tend to predominantly have incrementalist influences. These influences, being predominantly short term in nature, do have long term …
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Factors for the implementation of affordable federal public housing policies in south-south region of Nigeria
… the provision of affordable low-income public housing in many developing countries are suggested to be as a result of improper implementation of low-income housing policies. Even though various housing policies from these countries, which include Nigeria, promised to meet basic housing needs at …
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Urban housing policies and physical p prototypes for the low-income sector in metropolitan Seoul, Korea.
Thesis: M. Arch. A.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1972
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Shh... there's some racism in these policies: a phenomenological study of Black student experiences with on-campus housing policies
… difficulties when navigating on-campus housing policies and those who enforce them. Black students express concerns about interacting with their peers, staff, faculty, and campus police departments. This study used phenomenological methodology to examine the relationship between …
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"We did it for the Kids," Housing Policies, Race, and Class: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Resident Council in a Public Housing Neighborhood
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) emphasizes the word "community" for building economic development, citizen participations, and revitalization of facilities and services in urban and rural areas. Resident Councils are one way to develop and build community among residents of …
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Chinese housing policy: Sociohistorical analysis and policy evaluation
This research analyzes housing policies in the People's Republic of China in the following three ways. First, it describes the current state of Chinese housing and housing policies. Second, it explores how Chinese housing policies have been influenced by the country's political and economic …
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An analysis of the Guernsey housing market
The housing market on the island of Guernsey has been shaped by policies and traditions that have evolved over an extended period. The purpose of this research is to analyze this market and provide a framework with which to assess future economic and policy scenarios. An historic overview of …
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Advances in spatial econometrics and the political economy of local housing supply
… elections and local petitions, influence local housing policies.
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Urban Law and Housing Policy in Zambia
… which the government seeks to implement its housing policies, The government has made several policy statements in National Development Plans, housing programmes and circulars regarding the steps to be taken to eliminate housing shortage. This inquiry seeks to determine whether the law …
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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
… for the Urban Poor (BSUP) is an in-situ slum housing up-gradation policy that was initiated in 2005 by the Central Government of India under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). It is one of the few housing policies in the long history of slum housing policies in India …
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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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The planning system, property markets and the development of affordable housing: case studies from Cape Town
… mechanisms behind the outcomes in the affordable housing market in South Africa. The rationale for this study is the persistence of unfavourable outcomes in terms of location, density, integration and affordability of affordable housing developments. The post-apartheid government adopted housing …
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The role of government in housing in developing countries: The case of Egypt
… is a theoretical and empirical analysis of housing problems and policies in less developed countries using Egypt as a case study. It evaluates the Burns and Grebler model that associates levels of housing investments to level of economic development, levels of urbanization, and natural …
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