In this paper, it is argued that after decades of a strong dominance of the notion of housing affordability in the housing provision discourse, there is a need to shift the emphasis from housing affordability to housing accessibility. Based on a literature analysis of how the concept of housing affordability has been debated and promoted as an appropriate policy instrument our main argument is ...

The patterns and characteristics of everyday life have been changing according to changes in social structure. However, South Korean apartment complexes as a representative urban housing type are still based on the Western tradition of modern working-class housing, and have been commodified in the context of consumer capitalism. Therefore, this research explores the contemporary lifestyles that...

Abstract Accelerating public housing prices may have resulted in housing wealth distribution changing over time. Measurement of public housing wealth distribution in Singapore from 1984 to 1992 is carried out. Result show that, overall, the distribution was reasonably good from 1984 to 1990. But, starting from 1991, inequality increased. Housing price change is the major reason for the change i...

Adolescent alcohol use behaviors are influenced by familial patterns and neighborhood factors. This work explored the influence of individual, family, and environment on alcohol use. Baseline data from a randomized controlled trial with Black mothers son dyads (n=382) were paired with census tract and alcohol control board data. Among mothers, younger age, along with neighborhood factors of alc...

• Largely because of increased welfare targeting since the early 1990s, around 88% all public housing tenants in South Australia and Victoria pay concessional rents (compared to around 70% in the 1990s). This change has resulted in an annual cost to revenues (compared to 1990) of approximately $32 million in Victoria and $28 million in South Australia. This translates to $200 million for all pu...

Since GPS technology which is intensively used in surveying application today, can not directly be employed to measure some details such as building boundaries, it is still a necessity to establish control points on the ground and coordinate them by GPS and then measure the details by a total station set up on these control points. Establishment of control points on the ground and their compuls...

housing is one of the economic major sectors of the macro economy of country and micro economy of the household. changes in home prices, including consideration of issues in recent years . in this regard, several studies for examining the determinant variables of housing supply and demand and prices have been. this article attempts with using of model dissimilar variance household arch, paying ...

BACKGROUND The adverse health and environmental effects of poor housing quality are well established. A central requirement for evidence-based policies and programmes to improve housing standards is a valid, reliable and practical way of measuring housing quality that is supported by policy agencies, the housing sector, researchers and the public. METHODS This paper provides guidance on the d...

Housing wealth is the largest source of household wealth, but we know little about the distribution of housing wealth and how institutions have shaped this distribution. Subsidies for homeownership, privatisation of social housing and mortgage finance liberalisation are likely to have influenced the distribution of housing wealth in recent decades. To examine their impact, we describe housing w...

The development trends of Uganda’s housing policy have been erratic right from the time before independence. However, much of the housing policy development can be ascribed to the colonial period. Under this era, the provision of public housing was found to be unsustainable, especially in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, Government of Uganda adopted the enabling approach as a strategy to improve h...