Malgré les insuffisances, il apparaît que la plus grande partie des gens à faible et très faible revenu trouvent à se loger en utilisant les: Workers housing subsystem, Squatters housing subsystem, Boat houses, Rural commuters subsystem, Filtered
The implicit assumption that owners buy and sell housing as an adjustment process is not realised in all housing markets: in a number of developing countries such as Ghana, houses are seldom bought or sold. Traditional economic perspectives
are largely irrelevant. The AA. develop a housing extension model for the Asante culture in Ghana. It is evaluated in a two-step econometric analysis of the decision to extend.
Housing benefit and tenant coping strategies in the private rental housing market
Behaviour ; Economic strategy ; Great Britain ; Housing ; Housing market ; Rent ; Rented market ; United Kingdom
The AA. report findings of interviews with housing benefit claimants whose eligible rent for housing benefit was less than the contractual rent agreed with their landlord. Linking into debates about the usefulness of the concept of strategy
in social analysis, they consider whether the claimants pursued strategies in coping with the shortfalls in their eligible rent for housing benefit.
Public housing and the rescaling of regulation in the USA
Housing ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Privatisation ; Public sector ; Real estate development ; United States of America
The paper explores the impact of rescaling on public housing provision in the USA. The A. demonstrates that basic demographic, housing stock, and federal funding differences are now less important determinants of uneven public housing production
than was the case during the Keynesian era, and that local institutional differences are now playing a greater role in the production and management of public housing.
Administration ; Economic cost ; Housing ; Management ; Public sector ; Service
The emerging literature on housing management represents part of a much wider interest in performance evaluation within the public sector that has developed since the early 1980s. Housing management is a complex and heterogeneous service.
Changing characteristics of public housing residents
Elderly people ; Honshu ; Housing ; Japan ; Residential neighbourhood ; Social housing ; Social structure ; Tokyo
This paper aims to examine the change in characteristics of residents in public housing and to clarify the cause of this transformation process. - (KA)
In the paper the A. makes an attempt to provide an overview on the residential environment of large housing estates in Yerevan based on survey data and field work. - (AM)
China's urban housing marketisation hinges on a sensible ratio of housing price to rent. This research derives a rational level for such a ratio and examines its distortions under the Chinese system. It shows that the prevailing housing price
to rent ratios are higher than the rational level for both subsidised and free-market housing. Unique Chinese housing market equilibria are analysed and policy recommendations on commercialising Chinese urban housing are suggested.
House extensions and housing market adjustment: a case-study of Wokingham
Comfort ; Habitability ; Housing ; Housing cost ; Housing improvement ; Housing market ; Land ; Residential mobility ; Satisfaction ; South-East England ; United Kingdom
The paper identifies possible explanations of house extension, based on the literature relating to house improvement and the decision to move. It is examined in a case-study of extension activity in Berkshire, and, over the period 1979-89, appears
to be closely related to movements in house prices and can be seen as a form of housing development. A questionnaire survey shows that extension appears less likely to be triggered by specific life-cycle events, representing a progressive upgrading of property.
Deregulation ; Housing ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Owner-occupier ; Privatisation ; United Kingdom ; United States
The main theme is the role of the broad-based home-ownership research. The idea of home-ownership is widely shared not only among middle- and high-income households, but most Western countries are committed to a home-ownership housing policy.
Paper gives a detailed analysis of the history, the geographical location and other quantitative characteristics (number of buildings, dwellings etc.) of housing estates in Hungary. Recent development of the housing estates are also analysed
, and author come to the conclusion that due to the negative effect of out-migration housing estates at a serious risk of becoming ghettos in the housing market in the future. - (ZK)
Implementation of housing allowances is an integral part of Russia's programme of systematic rent increases on state and municipal rental units which began in 1994. Primary administrative responsibility for the programme rests at the local level
. The results of a first-time assessment of the practices of local housing allowances offices are reported here. Overall, its performance is adequate but highly variable and improvements are clearly needed.
A change of system: housing system transformation and neighbourhood change in Budapest
Budapest ; Housing ; Housing market ; Hungary ; Rehabilitation ; Residential environment ; Urban district ; Urban renewal
The author deals with some of the problems related to the transformation of the housing system, specifically in Budapest, Hungary. Central issue is the question of how households will obtain housing in the post-socialist era in Eastern Europe
De ontwikkeling van een woningmarktmodel en zijn toepassing op Italië. The building of a housing-market model and its application to Italy
The Italian housing market has been described and analysed using a housing-market model. The social problems in this Italian housing market have been confronted with theories on housing markets. - (AGD)
The document has been divided into four sections. Section one deals with those papers which select different attributes of housing, section two deals with the multinational perspectives on housing policies. The implementation of housing and urban
revitalization policies at the local pertains to problems and issues confronting housing policies : policy imputs and residential evaluations. - (PLK)
A debt-owing democracy: the political impact of housing market recession at the British general election of 1992
Electoral behaviour ; Housing ; Housing occupance ; Housing policy ; Local government ; Owner-occupier ; Political geography ; Political party ; United Kingdom
The paper investigates the impact of housing recession on the geography of the vote at the 1992 general election. Party fortunes are linked to local housing market conditions, and the failure of the housing market is a factor in reducing support
This work stems from the widely accepted hypothesis that housing price is determined by two types of characteristic: structural and locational. Under this hypothesis, a methodology is presented for the spatial estimation of housing prices
and locational rents: the Iterative Residual Kriging (IRK) method. The methodological aspects are complemented by the presentation of an application of this methodology to the case of housing in Granada, Spain.