BACKGROUND In Canada, public housing programs are an important part of governmental strategies to fight poverty and public exclusion. The Flash on my neighborhood! project is a four-year multiphase community-based participatory action research strategy currently implemented in six public housing developments (n = 1009 households) across the province of Québec, Canada. The goal is to reduce the ...

Based on the "complementary-congruence model" of person-environment fit, this study focuses on housing in old age as an interaction between housing needs and housing conditions in urban settings. The research aims are (1) to establish a set of housing-related person-environment (p-e) fit indices based on the relationship between environmental needs and existing conditions in different physical ...

OBJECTIVES Older adults with care needs live in a variety of settings-from traditional community housing to nursing homes. This analysis provides new estimates of the size and characteristics of the older population across settings and examines unmet needs for assistance. METHOD Data are from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (N = 8,077). Multinomial logistic regressions focus o...

The elderly There is no magical age at which one becomes "old," and any special housing needs are never a consequence of age alone but rather of accompanying financial, mental, or physical disability. The old include some of our poorest, most vulnerable citizens-in 1986 a fifth of single pensioners lived in houses needing more than £1000 worth of urgent repairs to the external fabric.' But ther...

This study presents a Quality of Life (QoL) survey to understand the influence of the housing environment and needs of residents from different housing sectors. The research focuses on Hong Kong where living conditions have become the main affect for people's QoL. Through a household survey using a standard instrument "Word Health Organisation (WHO) Quality of Life-BREF", the article found that...

Depleted human and social capital, displacement of people, destruction of property, weakened institutions and ruined economy are some of the legacies of conflicts. Within this context, post conflict reconstruction contributes to overcome the legacies of conflict through reactivating the development process that has been disrupted by the conflict. Among the post conflict reconstruction intervent...