Housing policy in Australia, at both the national and State level, is heavily reliant on the private rental sector to provide housing for low-income consumers. At the same time, there is evidence of significant market failure in the rental sector concerning access to and the supply of lower cost housing. Under a structures of housing provision framework, the institutional and structural process...

A reliable speech enhancement method is important for speech applications as a pre-processing step to improve their overall performance. In this paper, we propose a novel frequency domain method for single channel speech enhancement. Conventional frequency domain methods usually neglect the correlation between neighboring time-frequency components of the signals. In the proposed method, we take...

The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) is the largest project-based housing subsidy in the United States. Within the program, private developers receive a subsidy in exchange for constructing apartment units that rent for a predetermined affordable rate. Because the subsidy requires apartment buildings to charge a lower rental rate, the opportunity cost of developing subsidized housing in a ...

industrial towns with whatever purpose, can reduce the problems in rural areas, providing employment and income for rural people and the welfare of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages to be effective. evaluation of the impact of the creation of industrial zones and rural employment status of workers, especially rural workers, the main objective of this research. this study seeks to answ...

In down-payment constrained housing consumption models, increases in house prices could trigger household mobility decisions in housing markets. This study empirically tests house price dynamics associated with the mobility of households in the public resale and private housing markets in Singapore. The results show that stochastic permanent breaks were found in the public housing resale prices...

in the french law, the properties of public entities and at the head of them, the properties of state are divided into public domain of public entities and private domain of public entities. the criterion of distinguishing of public properties of public entities is a procedural matter that has been taken from french doctrine, however the recent law of public entities ownership passed in 2006 ha...

This research is done with an aim to compare the quality of housing in the two common appartment form on the rendering of main indexes of housing quality through two pre-designed neighbourhoods of Haft HozNeighborhood and the first phase of Ekbatan residential complex in the city of Tehran. Indexes of housing quality are extracted from the internal and external resources and are subjected to qu...

development along with improvement of sanitary and veterinary services are needed for production of protein acious food substances and reducing of domestic loss. this is important in food security in a society. this needs systematic planning for delivering proper services to livestock producer units as well as proper spatial distribution of veterinary services. the purposes of this study were a...

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...