The financialization of rental housing in Tokyo

Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves

We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the residential mobility of immigrants and contributes to the ethnic residential segregation observed in large cities. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona. We send emails s...

An Analysis on Formal Typology of Metropolitan Contemporary Housing of Tokyo (by Emphasis on 50 Residential Houses in the City of Tokyo)

Residential Satisfaction of the Elderly in Cooperatively Owned Housing and Rental Housing

Aging is accompanied with numerous transitions in life, and residential environment becomes a pivotal part of the elderly’s lives. Physically supportive housing linked with services emerges in midst of the reality that retrofitting housing with special features has been seriously underfunded. The purpose of this study was to examine the residential satisfaction of the elderly in two types of in...

Spillovers and Subsidized Housing: The Impact of Subsidized Rental Housing on Neighborhoods

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AHSExplorer: Discovering the Dynamics of Affordable Rental Housing

The US Government collects numerous statistics related to housing within the United States. One of these data sets, the American Housing Survey (AHS), provides a very rich source of information. However, exploring complex timeseries data can present many problems. AHSExplorer is an application developed to explore the information within this data set. In particular, AHSExplorer provides a means...