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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"renter"”.
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Rent payment and housing consumption patterns of renter households.
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Predicting marina slip renter trip spending at US Army Corps of Engineers lakes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, 2010
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Housing is the Cure: Renter Insecurity in Boston During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… for Black, Latinx and immigrant Boston renters. This crisis magnified existing dynamics of systemic racial exploitation. It was also tempered by unprecedented expansions of renter protections across local, state, and federal levels of government, secured by the tenacious organizing of …
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Ensuring Equitable Tenant Outcomes: Case Studies of Building Decarbonization Initiatives in Greater Boston, Massachusetts
… for cities that face barriers to adopting strong renter protections. This thesis offers two case studies regarding tenant-related equity concerns that emerged during the implementation of building decarbonization initiatives in greater Boston, Massachusetts: Boston’s building performance standard …
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Essays on financial institutions
… in exchange for a zero-interest loan from the renter to the owner of the house. However, during recent years, such a traditional form of rental agreement has been losing popularity and partially replaced by contracts based on monthly payments to the owner. Using a model of the interaction …
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The Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus): Spatial, Ecological, and Human Implications in Southeast Virginia
… (white or black), poverty/unemployed, owner/renter occupied, and the year a house was built. These secondary variables increase A. albopictus numbers if the following trends exist: high percent of persons in poverty and unemployed, higher percent of renter occupied homes, and older houses.
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Geographic Factors of Residential Burglaries - A Case Study in Nashville, Tennessee
… of Minorities, Singles, Vacant Housing Units, Renter Occupied Housing Units, and Persons below Poverty Line. The findings indicate that residential burglaries exhibit clustered patterns by forming various hotspots around the study area, especially in the central city and over time these …
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A discrete choice model of housing selection by low-income urban renters
… elements in a choice set facing low-income urban renters, (2) identify the demographic, socioeconomic and regional factors which influence housing outcomes, (3) use the resulting model to estimate the probability that an individual household faces a particular combination of housing problems, and …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… mechanisms of gentrification also predict that renters should face higher displacement pressure than homeowners because they face the displacing factors of gentrification like rent appreciation but are excluded from the retaining factors such as the expectation of greater housing sales price in …
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Gentrification and female headed households: tenure, migration and occupational characteristics of two neighborhoods in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1970-1980
… owner-occupants declined in all areas; female renter householders with low-status occupations continued moving into the neighborhoods; female householders were not significantly displaced by male householders, and; a majority of renovation was by male owner-occupants in one neighborhood and by …
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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
… housing assistance programs. Vouchers provide a renter with more location, quality and housing type options than project-based subsidized housing. The program's ability to increase choice depends heavily on the decisions of private landlords to accept voucher tenants. This research examines the …
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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
… to stigmatize rentals in general, and long-term renters in particular. I conclude that the current housing system privileges homeownership at the expense of the renter population. This system, in turn, has focused on homeowners’ expectations during the Airbnb debates with little concern for how …
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Essays in Consumer and Small Business Finance
… I show that the last US housing boom reduced renter credit access. In particular, banks reduced non-mortgage credit supply when they expanded mortgage lending to homeowners. As a consequence, renters living in locations where banks had more geographic exposure to the housing boom ended up …
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Game of zones : neighborhood rezonings and uneven urban growth in Bloomberg's New York City
… at the expense of low- and moderate-income renters. In low-density areas, the city conducted rezonings that preserved neighborhoods from new development, but, in combination with an influx of immigrants and renter households, contributed to increasing rent burdens and overcrowding. The …
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Three essays on urban economics
… 100% of the burden is passed through to the renter.
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Breaking Down the Monolith: Using Network Methods to Identify and Analyze Chicago’s Largest Landlords
… in the US and more than half in Chicago, IL are renter-occupied. In recent decades, ownership of residential rental properties has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of large, sophisticated landlords. Large landlords are obscure in two senses. First, it is difficult to determine which …
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Essays on housing economics and real estate finance
… in home sales, and increased the share of renter-occupied units. Moreover, households in the lowest income groups are most affected. The finding suggests that recent regulatory changes in mortgage lending may have unintended consequences, leading to reduced home ownership and increased …
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Assessing vulnerability and multi-hazard risk in the Nepal Himalaya
… social vulnerabilities across the country. 'Renter and Occupation', 'Poverty and Poor Infrastructure', and 'Favorable Social Conditions' are three major components that influence social vulnerability in Nepal. Results indicate an interesting regional difference: the eastern and central Tarai …
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Do new student rentals affect other housing submarkets? Evidence from Champaign-Urbana
… to determine the spatial distribution of student renters over time. Finally, I examine shifts in the distribution of rents to determine how the movement of students has affected what Champaign-Urbana’s landlords charge across the metropolitan area. I find evidence that a highly visible expansion …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
… the project. The support by both homeowners and renters significantly declines as distance from the BeltLine increases. However, when residents’ tendency to use BeltLine parks and transits is entered as a variable, the distance effect disappears. By indicating that the distance effect comes from …
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