Public housing authorities (PHAs) are entering a brave new world. Major proposed changes to the public housing program will force PHAs to compete with private sector providers for tenants. To succeed, they will have to act more like entrepreneurial market participants: to change their management practices, the types of tenants they house, and the kinds of developments they operate, and to attra...

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...

there is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not enough resources for government alone to address growing urban housing challenges in many developing countries. consequently, a paradigm shift from government provision to partnerships between the public and private sectors is advocated. this study examined the prospects and challenges of public-private partnerships...

Urban poverty has been the subject of sociological and political debate for more than a century. In this article I examine theories of urban poverty and their place in American housing policy. I first discuss theories that have arisen out of the sociological and policy discourse on urban poverty and the research that supports and challenges these theories. I then review current public housing i...

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...

This paper aims to understand how renters make their housing decisions in urban China, where market mechanisms are being introduced into a previously welfareoriented housing system. It is argued that while renters now enjoy more housing options, their choices are constrained not only by socio-economic factors as is the case in the West, but also by persisting socialist institutions such as the ...

PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that adolescents who carry lethal weapons are more likely to engage in violent behavior than adolescents who do not carry weapons. DESIGN Cross-sectional Survey. SUBJECTS Black adolescents (N = 225) from a lower socioeconomic (SES) background living in or around nine Housing and Urban Development housing projects. MEASUREMENTS An anonymous questionnaire cont...

This bulletin is based on research conducted by Dr Shane Murray, Prof Nigel Bertram, Ms Lee-Anne Khor, Ms Deborah Rowe, Mr Byron Meyer and Ms Catherine Murphy at the AHURI Research Centre— Monash University, Prof Peter Newton and Dr Stephen Glackin at the AHURI Research Centre— Swinburne University of Technology, Mr Tom Alves at Office of Victorian Government Architect, and Mr Rob McGauran at M...