Residential satisfaction has been assessed by various authors, who reported varying degrees of dissatisfaction and satisfaction. However, the differences in among housing components remain an issue. The study investigates residential specific estates Lokoja, Kogi State, aiming to understand aspects that contribute research collected responses from 215 residents employed statistical analysis usi...

AIMS Good housing solutions are important for the ageing population in order to promote health and maintain functional ability. The objective of this study was to investigate whether and how objective and perceived aspects of housing were related to perceived health among ADL independent and ADL dependent groups of older, single-living people within three national samples. METHODS The current...

Mixed-income development is an increasingly popular poverty deconcentration strategy in the United States but there have been few in-depth studies about the experiences of residents once they move in to the new housing developments. This article explores the early experiences of residents of all income levels who have moved into a new mixed-income development on the south side of Chicago. In-de...

lifestyle, shaped by the culture and customs of the people living in a city, and the settlement pattern resulted from that, is one of the foundations of native housing. careful analysis of lifestyle helps developing new housing design principles which are compatible to changes in living conditions and styles. city of khorramshahr, because of the deconstruction caused by war and the reconstructi...

Housing provision in Nigeria has not only been plagued by insufficiency numbers, but also inadequacies quality. quality is a predictor of housing adequacy. Adequate that congruence with family’s needs and social status. Achieving this balance creates the possibility residents experiencing satisfaction their housing. must therefore be viewed as critical element provision, it can substantially im...

This article examines the influence of living conditions in early life on life satisfaction in old age in eleven Western European countries. It combines the influence of individual conditions, for example housing and family background, with country characteristics in the decade of birth. Using pooled data from the second and third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, m...