Two decades of China's urban housing reform has produced significant quantitative and qualitative improvements. Despite various policies aimed to promote owner-occupied residential housing, the extent of commodification has been limited, and, in particular, most ownership transactions are independent of market considerations. This paper analyzes the reasons why significant commercial owner-occu...

Providing affordable housing has been a long-standing issue for governments of most countries. In an attempt to address the issue, affordable housing programs have been introduced with the aim of improving household’s access to housing, as well as sustain their wellbeing. This paper reports on a study of the activities of affordable housing program (AHP) in Papua New Guinea (PNG), using Port Mo...

IN THE LATE 1990S, SEATTLE LEADers recognized the city had a problem. Homeless people with severe alcoholism consumed a tremendous share of public dollars, cycling in and out of emergency departments and the criminal justice system. The city’s political, business, and hospital leaders joined forces with social service and substance abuse treatment agencies to adopt a new strategy not only to cu...

The empirical impact of housing costs on commuting is still relatively poorly understood. This especially salient in California given the state's notoriously high costs, which have forced many lower- and middle-class households to move inland search affordable at cost longer commutes. To investigate this linkage, we relied Generalized Structural Equation Modeling analyzed 2012 CHTS data for Los...

OBJECTIVE In this reflection I discuss my conceptual ideas and the latest empirical findings regarding the connections between leaving the parental home, marriage, parenthood, and separation on the one hand, and housing on the other. I also discuss the limitations of the research and directions for future research. CONCLUSIONS Parental housing of good quality keeps specific categories of potent...