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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"low-income residents"”.
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Mitigating Displacement of Low-Income Residents: A Practical Ideal Model for Cities
… cities to use for mitigating displacement of low-income residents, due to redevelopment. Displacement adversely affects low-income residents by breaking social ties in a neighborhood, and forcing residents to relocate; disadvantaging low-income residents. Method: A survey, based on the …
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Converging claims to social inclusion via tourism in Salvador, Brazil: cosmopolitan tourists and low-income residents
… so as to acquire global citizen status, and low-income tourism: the simultaneous tendencies to use tourism as a means to alleviate poverty while others engage in tourism as a means to be exposed to it. Both of these trends produce groups of people: low-income locals and cosmopolitan-aspiring …
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More Than Housing: Re-defining Affordable Housing
… the cost of living, making it harder for local residents and families to remain in the city. In Washington DC, the gentrification 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 …
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Low-income communities in World Heritage Cities : revitalizing neighborhoods in Tunis and Quito
… countries aiming to, among other things, benefit low-income communities. For the most part, these projects have resulted in visibly improved physical spaces, reflecting upgraded infrastructure along with conservation of the architectural fabric. These outcomes are impressive in light of decades of …
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Cosmo City Greens: contested aspirations of ecologically sustainable lifestyles in mixed-income housing
… is concerned with the relationship between the residents of Cosmo City, a mixedincome housing development in Gauteng, and green spaces in the development. It argues that the legacy of apartheid spatial planning has led to the unequal distribution of green infrastructure across the development, …
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From Community Blight to Community Asset: The Renovation of the Historic Whitelaw Hotel into Affordable Housing
… is to investigate whether there is a place for low-income residents in gentrified neighborhoods by examining how the housing needs of these households are provided. Affordable housing development and maintenance are key components for preserving a place for low-income residents in gentrified …
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A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents' Psychological Self-Evaluations
… that economically and socially isolate residents within inner-city neighborhoods. Recognizing the oppressive conditions of concentrated poverty, scattered site housing programs offer an appealing housing alternative to the density and concentration of past public housing developments for …
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How will the urban ring impact airport related economic activities and low income communities in Chelsea?
… questions. 1) How will the Urban Ring impact the low-income communities in Chelsea? and 2) How will the Urban Ring Impact the Airport Related Business? This thesis evaluates the impact of the Urban Ring Proposal mainly in terms of employment for the low income residents of Chelsea. I used maps …
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"Sequencing infrastructure development in the ""barrios marginales"" of Quito, Ecuador: Policy findings of a hedonic price model"
… have responded to the chronic shortage of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this ""sites and services"" approach has been criticized by scholars who assert that the provision of infrastructure raises land values beyond the reach …
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Evaluating Seeding Galveston: Assessing Food Security and Health-Related Outcomes
… the success of community-based programs, as it allows stakeholders and community organizations to determine the success of our efforts and make changes where necessary to improve our community programs. Evaluations are fluid and cannot just be done once, thus the importance of establishing an …
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Density bonuses and affordable housing in California : examining the economic impact on three cases
… of both housing that was designated for low-income residents and housing that was priced at market rate. The government understood that any law that acted as a further exaction on private developers would be counterproductive to their goals and thus adopted a density bonus program, to be …
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Building on lessons learned : too high hopes without HOPE VI?
… housing and provide services to public housing residents, the HOPE VI program has helped transform these developments and their surrounding communities since 1992. HOPE VI has not only brought public and private investment to distressed neighborhoods but also has played an important role in …
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Effects of housing policies on intra-urban inequality in transitioning China
… one-third of the overall inequality in urban income distribution in China. My hypothesis is that housing inequalities are reinforced in the reform years. In the first half, I discuss three types of general mechanisms: the income-regressive nature of the Housing Provident Fund, the exclusion of …
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Advancing equitable transit oriented development in Massachusetts : a framework and lessons from four gateway cities
… the same time, indicators of equity reveal that residents of today's Gateway City station areas are already facing an affordable housing and opportunity crisis. Many are burdened by rents high enough to prevent asset building, but too low to encourage development for the cities outside the …
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Balancing Accessibility & Affordability in Indonesian Transit-Oriented Development Projects, Case Study: TOD Tanah Abang, Indonesia
… public transit ridership and improving residents’ accessibility. Its approach involves capturing the increase in property values by redeveloping areas surrounding transit stations to fund public transit investment. However, when proposed TOD neighborhoods are already densely populated …
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From emergency to permanence: Evaluating modular housing as a long-term solution for disaster survivors
… and adaptable housing solution for displaced and low-income residents with dignity, efficiency, and sustainability. The project is located in Alief, a culturally vibrant, elevated neighborhood in southwest Houston. The design incorporates prefabricated mass timber modules, a construction method …
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Resident-Led Urban Agriculture And The Hegemony Of Neoliberal Community Development: Eco-Gentrification In A Detroit Neighborhood
… capital and community capacity building)—by low-income residents in hyper-abandoned and disinvested urban neighborhoods. Using a case study of resident-led neighborhood development in the low-income neighborhood of Brightmoor in Detroit, Michigan, I show how “everyday discourse” of urban …
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Increasing access to healthy food at a cooperative grocery store
… and interviewed social services staff and low-income residents from the surrounding community in order to develop programming and policy suggestions for the co-op that could make it more inclusive and affordable, thereby helping to increase community members' food security. In the process, …
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Multifamily Affordable Housing Energy Retrofit Strategy for Richmond, CA
… developments to provide these benefits to low-income residents in the City. Through interviews with energy program administrators, affordable housing providers, community-based organizations, and government agencies, this study identifies the key motivations, opportunities, and challenges …
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Strategies to develop and preserve affordable housing along the Green Line extension for the Somerville Community Corporation
… action on the part of the organization, residents, and the City is needed to take advantage of the transit investment to produce successful development and preservation projects. Interviews and observation show that SCC is most successful at fulfilling its mission, meeting the needs of …
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