This paper is concerned with the problem of how to characterize the housing-welfare state relationship. The image of housing as the wobbly pillar under the welfare state was first used in 1987 by Torgersen and endorsed in 1995 by Harloe, whose comparative survey of social rented housing in Europe and the United States led him to the conclusion that housing had ‘an ambiguous and shifting status ...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent decades, especial plan to improve rural housing in 1974 has begun by islamic revolution’s housing foundation. the aims were to improve rural context and the promotion of health, safety, and welfare of rural housing. with regarded to accelerating in possess of providing loans and banking facilities to rural housing sector in the form of various project...

Using urban residential micro data from CHNS, this paper employs Hedonic Pricing Model to investigate the impact of Neighborhood Quality on housing value and its mechanism. We find that, Human Capitals measured by average schooling years and occupational diversity have significant positive effect while cultural capitals such as Ethnic Diversity have significant negative effect on housing value....

In New Zealand, as in many other countries, housing in the private-rental sector is in worse condition than in the owner-occupier housing sector. New Zealand residential buildings have no inspection regime after original construction signoff. Laws and regulations mandating standards for existing residential housing are outdated and spread over a range of instruments. Policies to improve standar...

In this paper, aimed as a background for further research, the author examines the effect of urbanisation on housing for the low income earners in Kampala. The author discusses Kampala’s housing environment by looking at low-income earners’ access to housing in the city under conditions of rapid population rise, growing housing demand, rising land prices and growing poverty. Findings show that ...

Title X of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 addresses the control of lead-based paint hazards in federally assisted housing. It also provides for consistency and quality control in evaluating and controlling lead hazards in all housing. At the time of sale or rental of privately owned housing built before 1978, the year the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the resident...

Rapid urbanization and the scale of new buildings constructed in Malaysia demonstrate an urgent need for change in policy and mode of operation. National energy demand increased by 54% since 1994, which subsequently amplified carbon emissions growth by 221% (per head of population), dubbed highest in the world. Malaysia ranked 66 in the 2009 Human Development Index (HDI); and 54 on the Environm...

One goal of federal housing policy is to improve the prospects of children in poor families. This paper examines the effect of public housing participation on housing quality and educational attainment. Using the SIPP, we show that living in projects is associated with more negative outcomes for children, although this appears to be due to unobserved heterogeneity. We control for the endogeneit...

considering long term impacts of mehr housing plan on appearance and performances of cities, it is necessary that their construction will be done on the basis of geographical elements and criteria of urban planning in order to have positive impacts on urban quality and performance and reduce the ecological, social, and economical costs. therefore, this research analyzes and evaluates appropriat...