Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK. Housing and state pension wealth have a positive effect on consumption, while private pension wealth promotes greater savings. Greater private defined benefit pension wealth encourages earlier retirement, while greater defined contribution pension wealth has the e...

We study the wage structure during economic transition in the context of Chinese cities and examine the effect of China’s urban housing reforms on the urban wage structure (1988-2005). We find that these reforms, which untied access to housing from state-sector employment, shifted approximately 17% of the labor force from the state sector to the private sector, increasing the private sector lab...

Each local authority area should ensure there is a range of housing options with appropriate levels of support available for people with mental health problems by December 2005. They should work in tandem with Registered Social Landlords (RSLS) – Housing Association – and the private rented sector to fulfil this aim. [key action 9 paragraph 15.1] Is supported housing effective? What evidence is...

purpose: the study is descriptive and analytical that was performed with the aim of the study and evaluation of the rural satisfaction level in avramanat region of kermanshah province and identifys the factors affecting their satisfaction of their housing units. methodology: the studies populations are consists of 22279 rural households in 4 cities in of kermanshah province is located in the av...

The purpose of BARCODE HOUSING SYTEM, a research project developed over the last four years, has been to create an Internet-based system which facilitates the interaction of the different actors involved in the design, construction and use of affordable housing built with industrialized methods. One of the components of the system is an environment which enables different users – architects, cl...

BACKGROUND Housing conditions and environmental quality of residential areas are differentially distributed in the population. Less affluent population groups are more often affected by inadequate housing conditions and higher environmental burden in their residential neighbourhoods. A synthesis of the dispersed evidence on health-related housing characteristics and social status is needed to p...

Providing affordable housing has become one of China’s key national policy agenda items. The shared-equity model in Hong Kong, implemented since the late 1970s, assisted many families owning a home public market. However, little attention been paid to their welfare after acquiring subsidized units. This study aims examine how homeownership distorts residential mobility through in-kind subsidies...