Public housing is the largest housing submarket in Singapore. There is also an active resale public housing market, where public housing dwellers are allowed to trade their houses after a time-bar of five years from the date of their purchase. This segment of resale HDB market is liken the private housing submarkets, where housing prices are more likely to fluctuate in accordance to the market ...

This paper describes a prototype spatial decision support system (SDSS) designed to assist Housing Choice Voucher Program clients, with the guidance of housing counselors, make better quality decisions about neighborhoods in which to search for rental housing and specific rental units to evaluate for occupancy. This application also serves as a marketing tool for public housing authorities (PHA...

China is experiencing an unprecedented urban revolution, with massive ruralto-urban migration. Owing to the discriminatory hukou system, millions of migrants are excluded from accessing subsidized housing and suffer severe housing poverty. How to provide decent and affordable housing to migrants is an unprecedented challenge in China. In this paper we aim to scrutinize the current migrant housi...

Housing reform in urban China has introduced market mechanisms into a previously welfare-oriented housing system. Although microlevel factors such as household characteristics begin to shape housing behavior in urban China as is the case in the West, macrolevel constraints and opportunities defined by not only housing stocks and housing markets but also local government behaviors continue to be...

as cited in the constitution of the islamic republic of iran, it's one of the responsibilities of the government to provide appropriate housing for the people of iran. the main aim of current study was to assess satisfaction rate of a mehr housing residents in fars province, southwest of iran. randomly selected heads of 100 households residents of abadeh mehr housing for at least 1 year were as...

Since silicon regulates plant physiological and biochemical processes, it was hypothesized that foliar application could contribute to improving the quality of new potatoes. This paper analyzes effect (sodium silicate) on nutritional value sensory Silicon applied at dose 23.25 g Si·ha−1 or 46.50 once leaf development stage (BBCH 14–16) tuber initiation 40–41) twice, stages. Potatoes were harves...

The financial crisis has hit Spain hard. Initially, given its low government debt, Spain seemed safe, but it was forced to bail out its banks when the housing boom they had been fuelling finally collapsed. In the first quarter of 2013, 27% of the labour force were unemployed, including over 57% of the under 25s. Poverty has increased. Twenty one per cent of the Spanish population lived below th...