100 words max): This article estimates the impact of the 2007-2008 residential housing market bust on farmland values, using parcel-level farmland sales data from 2001-2010 for a 50-county region under urbanization pressure in western Ohio. Hedonic model estimates reveal that farmland was not immune to the residential housing bust; the portion of farmland value attributable to proximity to urba...

Although it has been suggested that structural adjustment policies have slowed Third World urban growth and have stimulated a spatial deconcentration of economic activity, this paper argues that African cities continue to grow and mainly through peri-urban development. This investment comes mainly from domestic sources and migrants’ remittances, and tends to be in consumption rather than produc...

‘Patient capital’ is presented by many policymakers as a panacea to address domestic (and sometimes city-level) gaps in financing urban development, particularly housing, that emerged the post-2008 credit crunch. In this article, we analyse complexities of patient investors’ entry into residential markets London and their response first major, unexpected, crisis demand: COVID-19 pandemic immedi...

Although the hazards of exposure to tobacco smoke are well established, and laws mandating smoke-free indoor air are widespread, private homes have long been considered spaces beyond the legitimate reach of regulation. Reflecting this view, the federal government has not required public-housing units to be smoke-free. Historically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has maint...

It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the US has arisen from broad societal factors – changes in the institutionalization of the mentally ill, increases in drug addiction and alcohol usage, etc. This paper reports on a comprehensive test of the alternate hypothesis that variations in homelessness arise from changed circumstances in the housing market and in th...

The present global trend emphasizes more on the performance of building as it not only effects the built environment and quality of construction but also affects the human being related with it. Housing is more than a mere shelter, often confused with built form of residence. It is one the basic needs of life as it provides protection and comfort as well as health and well being. The issue of q...

Housing is used worldwide to provide humans protection from the sun and the elements, to defend against wrongdoers, and a place in which to socialize and raise a family. Primeval forms of housing have been in use since ancient times. Primitive man used natural geological features for housing (i.e. caves, grottos), perhaps even choosing the position strategically. For example, dry caves were inf...

BACKGROUND Housing instability has been associated with poor health outcomes among people who inject drugs (PWID). This study investigates the associations of local-level housing and economic conditions with homelessness among a large sample of PWID, which is an underexplored topic to date. METHODS PWID in this cross-sectional study were recruited from 19 large cities in the USA as part of Na...