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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"social housing"”.
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Sustainable building maintenance within social housing
The social housing sector contains the largest number of professionally managed properties and as such has a significant role to play in improving the UK’s economic, environmental and social sustainability. This thesis explores the viability of integrating the sustainability agenda with social …
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SOCIAL HOUSING IN WATERFRONT REGENERATION: A CRITICAL EVALUATION
… waterfront revitalisation as a setting for social housing schemes. Although the latter have become increasingly common on British waterfronts in recent years, it can be argued that for a variety of reasons the waterfront may be an inappropriate location in which to create new, and possibly …
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Interest Group Politics in U.S. "Social Housing" Experiments
The rising cost of housing has renewed interest in public sector-led models of mixed-income housing production. Advocates, local governments, and state lawmakers are exploring strategies to involve the public sector more directly in the residential development process by capitalizing revolving loan …
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Leverage of change : social housing in Tijuana, México
… heavy migration, Tijuana is in constant need of social housing for its lower income families. The demands of the population have created an overload on the government, and some third parties have begun addressing the housing issues. A study was carried out on two different types of social housing …
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Policy and design in urban social housing : a reconciliation
… of this thesis is to understand the term " HOUSING" as a verb. This implies that housing is a process which includes three major stages. First, the planning POLICY stage determines distributions of resources, methods of production, and programs of activities. Second, the architectural DESIGN …
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Adaptive exoskeleton for the integrated retrofit of social housing buildings
… heritage directed at the integrated retrofit of social housing stocks. The study comprised the analysis of recovered residential buildings in order to develop new sceneries to adopt in critical situations, leading to the definition of a new experimental practice called “adaptive exoskeleton”. …
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Challenges to achieving sustainability in social housing construction in New Zealand
The housing crisis resulting in a lack of affordable housing has become an urgent problem that New Zealand faces due to various socio-economic and historical-political reasons. Social housing is one of the ways to address this problem and currently the country is experiencing a significant increase …
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A Jail Is Not Social Housing: making new grounds for Chinatown
This story begins at the site of The Tombs, a jail in Chinatown that is currently being doubled in size as a part of a distributed alternative to the Rikers Island Jail. The new megajail will have capacity to house up to 886 people in detention and will include space for on-site services and …
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Reconciling Social Housing and access to urbanity in Rio de Janeiro
… regulate land use and management towards a more socially inclusive and just environment, acknowledging that the city's social function and the right to the city should be contemplated within the scope of civic rights. CPBU is a way to promote the use of unused and underused land by pressuring the …
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Conceptual framework for the sustainable benefit evaluation of UK social housing projects
… seen an expansion in the role and size of the UK social housing sector. This sector is challenged to use its new housing development, regeneration and improvement programmes to deliver social benefit within an environment affected by government policies on funding and in the organisational context …
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Social Housing: The causes and consequences of short-termism for outsourced maintenance.
… Repairs and Maintenance (R&M) services to the Social housing market sector. Outsourcing is a feature of this market, with notices being published on OJEU. In 2010 the value of these contracted services was in excess of £10.0bn. The context of the study relates to my appointment as an Interim …
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Modern approaches to repairs and maintenance procurement within the social housing sector
… within the context of repairs and maintenance to social housing providers. Previous documents in this study are suggestive that there are some limitations for the effectiveness of social housing providers to undertake the role of construction client. This in turn would appear to question the …
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Influence of social housing conditions on mouse mammary tumor growth and behavior
… cancer may be influenced by a number of psychosocial factors. In the present study we investigated psychosocial variables that may influence growth of the Shionogi mouse mammary carcinoma (SC115). Change in social housing condition, direction of change [individual to group (IG) or group to …
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Appraisal of energy efficiency retrofit: government incentives and social housing organizations' perspective.
From the Scottish Social Housing Organizations' (SHO) perspective there is a major challenge to be addressed - retrofitting their dwelling stock to meet the energy efficiency objectives of the UK and Scottish governments. This is particularly challenging when simultaneously retaining focus on their …
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Development of a Framework for Sustainable Social Housing Provision (SSHP) in England
Sustainable social housing provision (SSHP) has become very important over the last few decades for the main objective of meeting housing needs. Despite this, there is evidence to suggest that SSHP has not been practiced successfully. A growing body of the literature shows that lack of an …
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Achieving deep carbon emission reductions in existing social housing: The case of Peabody
… carbon emissions will be required from existing social housing. This thesis explores the viability of achieving such a goal through a case-study approach, focusing on Peabody, a large housing association operating in London. A model was developed for Peabody’s existing housing stock that …
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The internal layout design of social housing in Libya : a cultural value perspective
Social housing is a basic human need and essential for the future of individuals and society. An appropriate housing internal layout plays a crucial role in the sustainable urban development. The fundamental goal of sustainable development in the built environment is to protect and improve the …
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Change, loss and community : resident narratives of life on a social housing estate
… of community for residents on a regenerated social housing estate in the North-West of England. ‘Community’ has continuing relevance in academic inquiry and application within social policy. It is frequently portrayed as a lost idyll that can be retrieved to counteract social decline; thus, …
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Sustainable Transitions in Social Housing in England. The Development of a Theoretical Framework
Social housing can play a large role for both the UK and global agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Political and industry efforts to promote sustainability in social housing in England are sparse, despite a plethora of existing research. One reason for this might be the lack of integration …
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Social housing as heritage : case study : Langa hostels : whose values and what significance?
… in an environment of material, economic and social difficulties; and, if so, to what degree the inhabitants of the hostels’ sense of value correspond to that articulated in the “official statement of significance” of 2004. This study questions the validity of nominating migrant labour hostels …
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