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Tu, Yong. "Local housing submarket structure and regional household housing choice behaviour." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 1995. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3603.
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As home ownership in the UK housing market has become mature, economic and econometric analyses of urban and regional owner-occupier housing markets have become a long-standing concern of housing economists. This thesis defines a nestedl ocal housing submarkets tructureT. he dynamic stock flow model with trade friction is revised and applied to analysing the local owner occupier housing submarket operational process. The short run and long run equilibrium and discquilibrium nature of a local owner occupier housing submarkct system are divulged. This model explores the submarket house price determinants and the role of housing submarket trade friction in submarket house price formation. The computer simulation reveals the relationship between the housing submarket structure and the system stability. The role of household housing choice behaviour in directing the system has been carefully demonstrated. On the premise of the utility maximisation approach, a behavioural model of regional household housing choice per housing submarket is set up. It is argued that the structure of the regional labour market determines household dwelling location choice. The influence of housing submarket marketability (defined as an inverse of the submarket trade friction) on household housing choice behaviour is considered. The family life cycle pattern of housing choice behaviour and the influence of household financial constraints on housing choice are also developed in the model. The empirical analysis is based on both Stated and Revealed preference information in order to overcome the dwelling supply constraint. The data is derived from the Lothian Region owner occupier housing market. The empirical results are compared with those of the existing housing choice models. The policy implications which follow from this thesis are then discussed in the light of the findings
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Davidoff, Thomas 1971. "Essays on annuitization and housing choice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8409.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117).
Chapter 1 For most US households, labor income is the most important source of wealth and housing is the most important risky asset. A natural intuition is thus that households whose incomes covary relatively strongly with housing prices should own relatively little housing. Under plausible assumptions on preferences and distributions, this result holds theoretically. Empirically, I find a significant effect: among US households, a one standard deviation increase in income-house price covariance is associated with a decrease of approximately $25,000 in the value of owner occupied housing. This empirical result implies greater cognizance of the interaction between labor income and asset risk on the part of households than suggested by most analyses of stock market behavior. The analysis also suggests that many homeowners enter financial markets in a riskier position than typically thought, and reinforces the intuitive appeal of proposals for market- or tax-based risk sharing in housing prices. Chapter 2 extends the theory of annuitization with no bequest motive in two directions. First, we derive sufficient conditions, in a more general setting than Yaari (1965), under which complete annuitization is optimal, and weaker conditions under which partial annuitization is better than zero annuitization. Second, we explore how incremental and complete annuitization affect consumer welfare in these more general conditions. When markets are complete, all savings are optimally annuitized as long as there is no bequest motive and annuitized assets have greater returns than conventional assets.
(cont.) Consumers' utility need not satisfy intertemporal additive separability nor the expected utility axioms, and annuities need not be actuarially fair. The result is weakened if annuities markets are incomplete, so that there are some assets which do not exist in annuitized form: as long as trade occurs all at once and consumption is positive in every state of nature, a small degree of annuitization is better than no annuitization. When conventional asset markets are incomplete, if annuities are illiquid, then it is possible that no savings are annuitized. We present numerical calculations of the financial benefit and optimal degree of annuitization for consumers with standard CRRA preferences, and compare these results to results where otherwise identical consumers have utility that depends both on present consumption and a standard of living to which they have grown accustomed. In our specification, the effect of adding intertemporal dependence hinges on the size of initial standard of living relative to resources. Chapter 3 addresses the measurement of income sorting and the attribution of observed sorting to different causes. In terms of measurement, I show that a standard decomposition of variance of household income into within jurisdiction and between jurisdiction components understates sorting in the presence of measurement error. Using 1990 US Census data, I find that adjusting for this error approximately doubles the estimated extent of sorting. On average, across all US metropolitan areas (MSAs) I find that approximately ten percent of the variation in household income can be explained by differences across jurisdictions ...
by Thomas Davidoff.
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Ahmad, Ali Haidar. "Private housing development : refining rational choice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444122/.
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Housing, as the principal focus of personal and family life, has a pervasive impact on all aspects of our existence, providing privacy and security, both physical and emotional, while embodying not only our material possessions, but also our dreams and despair. For most households in developing countries, financing housing constitutes a substantial proportion of household expenditure. Most research on housing finance focuses on measures of affordability and establishment of formal institutions. Others restrict their field of inquiry to the implementation of micro-credit facilities for incremental housing by lower income groups. Due to successive failures of public housing in many developing countries, strategies advocated by the global community tend towards diverting State involvement from provision to facilitation effective regulatory mechanisms deemed essential to enable private enterprise and informal practices in housing provision. Maldives experienced rapid economic growth during the last decades propelled by the expansion of tourism Yet, economic and social disparities between the capital, Male, and other islands continue to exist Consequently, in-migration to Male has fuelled an insatiable demand for housing. In the absence of formal housing finance, plot-holders in Male cannot construct multi storey housing that optimised land scarcity. This research focuses on the process by which private developers rent land from plot-holders to construct multi-storey rental housing, resulting in: income and shelter security for plot-holders increase in housing stock of Male and accumulation of capital for developers, with minimal State involvement or institutional support. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from renters, plot-holders and developers through purposive sampling. Based on the ideological perspective of rational choice theory, grounded theory methodology was utilised to develop a substantive theory on housing finance that. in situations of absolute scarcity of land, and low levels of institutional support, the decisions of private developers in the process of multi-storey rental housing production appear within the paradigm of rational utility maximisation. However, deeper analyses of their motives reveal elements of altruism, benevolence and charity dominating their decisions within the socio-cultural milieu of Male where kith and kin relationships influence investment decisions.
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Jaroscak, Joseph V. "CMHA Housing Choice Voucher Landlord Outreach Assessment." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941312.
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Scott, Peter J. "An analysis of judgemental bias in housing choice." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/242424.
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Buying a home is among the most important choices that any individual is likely to make in their lifetime. It has lasting consequences for happiness, well-being and personal finances. Yet, given the infrequency with which such decisions are made; the difficulty getting information from an opaque and decentralised marketplace; and the high transactions costs involved, there is a significant risk that decision making may depart from the high standard imposed by the normative economic concept of 'rational choice'. This thesis uses the insights of the economic theory of choice - from behavioural economics in particular - to examine housing choice from a new perspective. It considers the potential for estate agents, knowingly or otherwise, to exploit behavioural biases in decision making to influence preference and, ultimately, choices over housing. This naturally is of interest to estate agents and policy makers involved in housing markets; but most importantly to individuals as decision makers: making better decisions relies on understanding when and where vulnerability to manipulation may lie. Using evidence from a series of classroom experiments with 280 student volunteers and from two online surveys with over 4,000 adult respondents, significant areas where individuals may be consistently vulnerable to manipulation of judgement are found and recorded. In particular, both student and adult respondents are susceptible to biases involving manipulation of the decision making context, known as the choice frame. Students also tend to rely on arbitrary 'anchor' points to make value estimates, which results in significantly impaired judgements, even in the presence of incentives for accuracy. Finally, evidence of a significant new form of behavioural bias is found, in which elements of the choice frame have an unexpectedly negative impact on perceptions. This new bias is persistent across several experimental scenarios and is labelled the 'choice pollution effect'.
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Wood, Rebecca S. Jr. "Housing Market Choice Patterns of Single Women Homeowners." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30657.
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Housing researchers are aware of the lower homeownership
rates and other housing problems of single women but there
is very little research focusing on single women
homeowners or the characteristics of the housing they buy.
Also, since a wide body of research can be found that
examines determinants of homeownership for various
population groups, the importance of this study was in its
focus on single women homeowners and the characteristics of
their housing rather than the determinants of ownership for
this group.
Using data from the 1993 American Housing Survey (AHS), the
study sample consisted of 639 women homeowners who were
either widowed, divorced, separated, or never-married, and
who did not own their previous residence. The study's
purpose was to construct a profile of single women home-
owners that included a description of their demographic and
housing characteristics, the means by which they acquired
their homes, and the changes made in their housing when
they became homeowners. Additionally, this study examined
which demographic and previous housing characteristics of
this group were related to the housing characteristics of
their present homes.
Descriptive results from this study suggested that single
women homeowners are primarily middle aged without young
children at home, earn moderate incomes, and that the
largest proportion of them live in the South and metropolitan
areas. When compared to homeowners in general, single women
homeowners' homes cost less and represented a higher proportion
of attached and mobile home units. The results also showed
that single women used low-down payment financing instruments
to a lesser degree than did all homeowners.
Results from statistical analyses suggested that significant
relationships exist between single women homeowners' housing
characteristics, and a) their demographic characteristics,
b) their previous housing characteristics, and c) their reasons
for moving and selecting their current homes and neighborhoods.
Another key finding was that single women homeowners of varying
marital status differed in their present and previous housing
characteristics and their reasons for selecting the current home.
The results of this study support suggestions made by other
researchers that examining differences not only by gender but
also by the variations in marital status will help to clarify
and add to the knowledge of housing and its relevance to
populations of varying social composition.Ph. D.
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Coggi, Patrick. "Optimal portfolio choice with housing and tenure decisions /." Table on contents, 2009. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00231719.pdf.
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Lafayette, William Carl. "Mortgage choice, tenure choice, and housing demand in the presence of mortgage qualification constraints." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1278522750.
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LaFayette, William Carl. "Mortgage choice, tenure choice, and housing demand in the presence of mortgage qualification constraints /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487853913100272.
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Wong, Grace Khie Mie. "Household housing decision-making processes and choice within the public housing system in Singapore." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361698.
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Bonnet, Odran. "Individual housing choices and aggregate housing prices : discrete choice models revisited with matching models." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018IEPP0010.
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Le premier chapitre, écrit conjointement avec Alfred Galichon, Keith O'Hara et Matthew Shum, montre l'équivalence entre les modèles de choix discrets et les modèles d'appariements. Cette équivalence permet l'estimation efficace, par des algorithmes d'appariement, de modèles qui étaient jusqu'à présent réputés comme difficile à estimer dans la littérature. Le deuxième chapitre, écrit conjointement avec Mathilde Poulhès, s'appuie sur les résultats du premier pour estimer le consentement marginal à payer des agents pour différentes caractéristiques du logement et du quartier à Paris. Il introduit une nouvelle procédure d'estimation basée sur le modèle de pures caractéristiques. Grâce à un riche jeu de données sur les achats de logements à Paris, nous montrons que le revenu moyen du voisinage et le niveau de criminalité sont de puissants déterminants du choix du quartier pour tous les types d'acheteurs, que l'accessibilité à l'emploi est également un facteur déterminant pour les ménages comptant plus d'une personne, et que la qualité de l'école du secteur joue un rôle primordial pour les ménages avec enfants. Le troisième chapitre, écrit conjointement avec Guillaume Chapelle, Alain Trannoy et Etienne Wasmer, montre que la croissance récente du ratio patrimoine sur revenu est due uniquement à l'augmentation du prix des logements, et plus précisément à l'augmentation du prix d'un facteur fixe de production: la terre. Nous montrons ensuite qu'un système de taxation du patrimoine doit taxer le facteur fixe qu'est la terre à des fins de redistribution et non le capital productif pour ne pas décourager l'investissementThe first two of the three chapters of this thesis examine the identification and the estimation of discrete choice models. The first chapter proves the equivalence between matching models and discrete choice models, and draws the consequences in terms of identification and estimation. The second chapter builds on the results of the first, and uses matching algorithms to estimate the marginal willingness to pay of households for various housing and neighborhood characteristics in Paris (such as school performance, crime level, distance to employment areas). The third chapter deals with another topic: it first shows that the recent rise in the capital-income ratio highlighted by Thomas Piketty in his book is due to the rise in housing prices, and it then explores the consequences in terms of wealth distribution
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Alkan, Leyla. "Tenure Choice And Demand For Homeownership In Ankara." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613879/index.pdf.
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Housing is a basic requirement for all individuals in every country. Being one of the main tools of urban planning, housing contains different social, economic, psychological, and design aspects, and it attracts attention of different disciplines. A review of the theoretical models, data, and empirical methods reveals deficiencies in all areas of housing sector in Turkey. Especially, there is an important gap in the literature about housing tenure choice. A new research agenda focusing on households&rsquotenure choice is needed with the help of models to be developed for this purpose. In this thesis, it is aimed to identify this model by focusing transition from tenancy to homeownership, and by choosing Ankara as the case study. The thesis has two main steps. In the first step, different economic ways of shifting from tenancy to homeownership is examined by using the data of Household Budget Survey (2003) from Turkish Statistical Institute. In the second step, the thesis examines effects of different socio-economic factors on the probability of shifting from tenancy to homeownership, and the way in which the impact of these drives might change with different forms of housing provision with the help of a survey carried out in Yenimahalle and Ç
ankaya. Results of calculations show that housing credits do not offer new homeownership opportunity for households who are not able to purchase a dwelling by saving their incomes in Turkey. The first step illustrates that, households earning less than 1 000 TL per month have no chance to afford a dwelling in Ankara. However next step highlights an irregular mechanism which enables these households to shift to homeownership in Turkey.
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Mitchell, Kimberly Jean. "Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28061.
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This dissertation addresses the critical role of landlords in implementing the Housing Choice Voucher program. Housing choice vouchers provide tenant-based rental assistance to low-income families so that they can have greater opportunities to select apartments and locations than under other rental housing assistance programs. Vouchers provide a renter with more location, quality and housing type options than project-based subsidized housing. The programâ s ability to increase choice depends heavily on the decisions of private landlords to accept voucher tenants. This research examines the factors influencing housing choice voucher acceptance by owners, or their agents, specifically property profitability, owner strategies, and perceived majority tenant prejudices. One previous study attempted to identify the factors that affect landlordsâ acceptance of vouchers, and was restricted to landlords participating in the voucher program. This dissertation expands our understanding of landlordsâ decisions to accept voucher tenants in two key ways: empirical modeling of voucher acceptance using a national sample of rental properties; and qualitative studies of landlords within a single market area. This research has implications for improving the future performance of the voucher program and the housing quality of low-income renters. By understanding the factors influencing voucher acceptance, public policy makers can utilize this information and direct their efforts to successfully market the program, expand voucher knowledge, and increase non-participating ownersâ acceptance of vouchers. Furthermore, policy makers can determine if additional legislation is needed to enhance the protection of voucher holderâ s rights and maintain the supply of eligible units. Such efforts will enhance the effectiveness of housing agencies and thus, help achieve the goal of providing low-income renters with better housing options.Ph. D.
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Bacon, Philomena M. "Tenure Choice, Mortgage Choice, and Lender Behaviour in the Housing Market of England and Wales." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520447.
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Shaw, Jessie G. "Lack of perceived choice and development of learned helplessness in institutionalized, elderly persons with mental retardation." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392903294.
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Parks, Susan Carol. "A needs assessment of the homeless and the lack of affordable housing programs for the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3297.
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The purpose of this study was to interview the social workers that work with the homeless population within the Inland Empire. Explored were the social workers perceptions of and attitudes about the homeless population as well as hoping to understand the lack of housing for the homeless and to find out what can be done to provide housing for them.
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Sarama, Robert F. Jr. "Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Housing." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275434630.
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Lemieux, William J. "Urban housing tenure choice from an economic and demographic perspective." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24400.
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This thesis evaluates the influence of family life cycle stages as a factor of residential tenure choice. The importance of tenure choice is being more widely recognized through the greater use of housing market and demand models. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of the tenure decision process so that planners, policy makers, and other market participants are more effective in achieving their goals.
In this study an empirical analysis is performed using urban Canadian data for households with head's between the age of 25 and 44. Eight family life cycle stages are used to classify households. A joint tenure choice and mobility model is used to test for ownership probability differences among the life cycle stages. Within the study framework allowances are made for recent and non-recent movers.
The results indicate that family life cycle stages impact on tenure choice, and that this occurs outside of their impact on expected mobility (or holding period). The life cycle stage impact is strong through the effect of household reactions to income and wealth, and weak through just group membership. This suggests that utility preferences for ownership tend to shift as households progress through various life cycle stages. When elasticities are estimated they are found to reflect the different housing consumption and mobility decisions of households at different family life cycle stages. This also
supports the concept of a changing utility preference function.
In general this study finds that tenure choice is affected by consumption and mobility influences that result from different family life cycle stage demands. Further research studies, government and business policies, dealing with residential tenure choice are encouraged to recognize family life cycle stages and the impact of household expected mobility.Business, Sauder School of
Real Estate Division
Graduate
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Nyong, Eno Dorothy. "Understanding choice behaviour to advance sustainable development in housing production." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1506.
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Sustainable development requires us to change our construction technologies in order to avoid negative environmental and economic impacts. However, evidence shows that stakeholders in the field are still choosing housing construction materials and methods that do not advance sustainable development. This problem has been attributed to their underlying choice determinants. Therefore, this thesis investigates the inherent values and choice processes that determine the choice decisions of housing user and housing practitioners, as well as the relationship between these choice determinants and the requirements of sustainable development. The empirical investigation is an exploratory behavioural study in the social sciences and uses a qualitative research strategy. A case study investigation is conducted in Uyo, Nigeria, as a context that is instrumental to understanding the inherent choice behaviour of stakeholders in the field when faced with a choice of housing construction technologies. Choice decision theories provide the analytical framework. The outcomes of the empirical research are: An emerging theory of stakeholders’ choice behaviour, identifying the values and describing the processes that determine their choice of housing construction materials and method; and A propositional model of the relationship between the egoistic, preference-based requirements of housing users; the deontological, performance-based requirements of housing practitioners; and the wider welfare requirements of sustainable development. From this model, the study predicts how these stakeholders themselves would choose change, and thereby advance sustainable development, without the need to alter their normal choice values and processes. This new knowledge contributes to choice behaviour theory. The findings also inform needed alterations to sustainable development policy, innovation and impact assessment. Further research is prescribed to test the propositions, conclusions and recommendations made here. The study also supports the call for further research into behavioural areas in the field of housing production that are crucial to sustainable development.
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Wong, Pui-yee, and 黃佩儀. "A tenure choice under the Hong Kong public housing policy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31257112.
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Parker, Christopher. "Lived experiences of 'choice', control' and 'success' in Housing First." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36205/.
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This thesis is concerned with notions of ‘choice and control’ in the Housing First model, and how these contribute to successful outcomes for multiply excluded homeless (MEH) adults. Housing First aims to overcome homelessness and prevent further exclusion by offering immediate, independent accommodation in the community. In doing so, the model seeks to provide a foundation for client centred support, guided by client choice, which enables recovery from the ‘multiple and complex’ needs most MEH adults face. The majority of Housing First literature has focused on the model’s very positive housing related outcomes. However, longer-term outcomes related to recovery and desistance have been less clear. The thesis centres on a qualitative, longitudinal evaluation of a Housing First service in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Housing First is relatively new in England, and there has been only limited evaluation of the model’s effectiveness in this context. This study contributed to this gap in knowledge by following 18 MEH adults over 16 months in their Housing First tenancy. A mixed methods design was employed to explore participants’ ability to utilise the ‘choice and control’ offered in Housing First to achieve outcomes related to recovery and desistance. The methodology was informed by a situational approach that places the participant at the centre of analysis and explores both the personal and environmental factors that influence their choices, and resulting actions. Findings demonstrated the importance of participants’ biographies in determining their ‘starting point’ in Housing First, and their ability to make choices towards recovery and desistance. A key output of the study was a typology based on participants’ life histories that was predictive of their trajectories towards recovery and desistance. In general terms, those with less complex life histories were more able to take advantage of the foundation provided by Housing First.
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Wong, Pui-yee. "A tenure choice under the Hong Kong public housing policy /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940405.
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Yao, L. "House price appreciation and housing policy : a study of housing affordability and tenure choice in China." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2018. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34657/.
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The last decade has been witnessed by the rapid development of the Chinese housing system, and this is both a significant element, and a crucial indicator of the entire Chinese economic system. Over the past decades, housing privatisation and commercialisation have transformed the Chinese allocative housing system into a dynamic market-based system. This has accelerated the demand for housing alongside the urbanisation, which has translated into continuous house price appreciation. Consequently, this has led to an aggravation of housing affordability issues, leading to an increasing number of households struggling to enter the homeownership market. Therefore, the central government has issued a number of policy initiatives to minimise the issues of housing affordability, in which comprises the establishment of the housing provident fund (HPF) scheme, the supply of economical and comfortable housing (ECH), and the cheap rental housing. The HPF is a compulsory saving scheme that absorbs monthly deposits and grant low-rate housing debt, aimed at reducing the housing affordability problems encountered by Chinese households. This current research employed macroeconomic, microeconomic and policy variables to capture the factors influencing housing affordability and tenure choice decisions. Macro and micro level data was collected and employed in the empirical models, which is aggregate level model and household level model. The empirical model based upon aggregate level data employed the 2SLS estimation technique, aiming to capture the effects on housing affordability followed by government policy interventions. The household level model examines factors influencing housing affordability and tenure choice decisions by the use of 2SLS and probit technique, and forms a two-reduced forms simultaneous equations model. When conducting the empirical investigation by using the household level model, particular attention was also directed towards regional differences in housing affordability and tenure choice decisions. Furthermore, cross sectional variations in housing affordability and tenure choice decision across different groups were also explored, the data sample was disaggregated into four sub-groups, including location, age, income, and educational achievement. This is achieved based upon a life cycle perspective, incorporating concerns that some households might be liquidity constrained, experiencing difficulties of paying for down payment or entering the homeownership market. The empirical results indicated that housing affordability is influenced by demand and supply side factors, combined with demographic factors and liquidity constraints. The government policy regarding the HPF was found to be effective at reducing the difficulties of housing affordability in both the aggregate level model and the household level model; while also was evidenced to be effective at increasing the likelihood of achieving homeownership in the household level model. Cross sectional variations were captured among different regions and different disaggregated groups, evidencing that the HPF is a promising housing policy with the effect to diminish housing affordability problems, thereby reducing the housing inequality gap.
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Dawkins, Casey J. "Tiebout choice and residential segregation by race." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23929.
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Schultz, Anthon, and Tomas Shaw. "Conversion of buildings to student housing in Stockholm – A supplement to solve the lack of student homes?" Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-147659.
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Stockholm is today one of the fastest growing regions in Europe and the demand for housing is increasing by the day. In order to achieve the target of becoming Europe's most attractive metropolitan region the city needs highly educated and skilled labour to satisfy the demand of companies today and in the future. However, the housing situation for students in the Stockholm area is at the moment very bleak. Stockholm is at least 7,000 student housings short and the quetime reaches as high as two years. Despite the lack of housing for students, we can’t see any increase in construction. This means that the students have a difficult time finding somewhere to live which results in that they choose to study elsewhere. In 2009 Boverket said that we must examine alternative solutions for resolving shortage of housing for students. In recent years a couple of projects can be seen in which existing buildings have converted its use from office or shops to student housing. An investigation of how the market views this option has been lacking. This essay aims to examine the student housing market in Stockholm in order to investigate whether conversion of existing buildings is an effective supplement when construction of new housing can’t meet the demand. We have furthermore examined a couple of restraining factors, in order to make the process more effective and finished of by drawing a couple of conclusions. The current planning process is considered to be one of the most restraining factors that leads to the fact that conversion can’t be utilized to its full extent. Lead times are said to be long and the fact that the plan is to detailed and precise makes it difficult to convert properties. With the help of more administrators and a more open plan, conversion could be used to its full extent. Building regulations are considered to be another reason why so few projects are being converted. The same rules apply when you build new buildings as when you convert. The market is looking for a change in the presentation of the current rules in order for these to be more applicable and beneficial for the market. Unpredicted expenses are always a risk when converting but with more experience the risk becomes lower. A system where you subsidize a part is not a market request since a lot of the answers suggest that this affects a market negatively in the long run. Rent control is not a factor that is considered to be restraining when converting buildings for student housing.Stockholm är idag en av de snabbast växande regionerna i Europa och efterfrågan på bostäder i staden blir allt större för varje dag. För att uppnå de mål som finns om att bli Europas mest attraktiva storstadsregion behövs kompetent arbetskraft till staden för att fylla det behov som företagen efterfrågar nu och i framtiden. Den bostadssituation som råder för studenterna i Stockholmsområdet är dock väldigt dyster. Det saknas i dagsläget minst 7000 studentbostäder och kötiden för en studentbostad uppgår i dagsläget till minst två år. Trots detta ser vi inte någon större ökning av nyproducerade studentbostäder. När studenterna har svårt att hitta bostäder tenderar dessa att studera på annan ort och kunskap förloras, vilket hämmar Stockholms utveckling. Boverket kom 2009 med åsikten att man måste utreda alternativa lösningar för att lösa bostadsbristen för studenter. På senare år har man kunnat se projekt där befintliga fastigheter konverterats och ändrat användning från lokaler till studentbostäder. En utredning kring hur marknaden ser på detta alternativ har saknats. Denna rapport syftar till att studera studentbostadsmarknaden i Stockholm för att undersöka om konvertering av befintliga fastigheter är ett slagkraftigt komplement när nyproduktionen inte når upp till de mål som eftersöks. Genom att uppmärksamma ett antal återhållande faktorer har vi kunnat komma fram till ett antal slutsatser. Dagens system för planprocessen anses vara en faktor som gör att detta komplement inte kan utnyttjas till sin fulla grad. Ledtiderna uppges vara för långa och detaljplanens precisa och detaljerade utformning försvårar möjligheten att konvertera fastigheter. Med hjälp av fler handläggare och en mer öppen plan skulle detta komplement kunna tillämpas till sin fulla grad. Byggregler som tillämpas anses vara en annan anledning till att färre projekt genomförs. Samma byggregler som tillämpas för nyproduktion eftersträvas även vid konvertering. Marknaden söker en ändring av utformningen på dagens regler för att dessa ska vara mer tillämpbara och nyttiga för marknaden. Oförutsedda kostnader är en risk som alltid kommer vara ett orosmoln vid konverteringsprojekt men desto mer erfarenhet aktörerna har desto mindre blir risken. Subventionssystem är inte något som eftersträvas då resultatet pekar på att bidrag och investeringsstöd påverkar en marknad negativt i det långa loppet. Att hyresreglering för bostäder existerar anses inte vara en återhållande faktor för att detta komplement ska bli slagkraftigt
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Murray, Margaret S. "A discrete choice model of housing selection by low-income urban renters." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-164515/.
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Fu, Qiang, and 傅強. "An analysis of housing demand and tenure choice in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31241670.
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Chan, Ching-wan Alison, and 陳靜雲. "Tenure choice of housing in Hong Kong after the Asian financialcrisis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007974.
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Chung, Eui-chul. "Length of stay, housing consumption and tenure choice : an intertemporal analysis." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272487319.
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Murphy, Dugan. "Housing Choice Vouchers in the suburbs: Finneytown and Hamilton County, Ohio." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337886018.
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Jordan, René Janelle. "Agent-based modelling of housing choice in the EASEL regeneration district." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2023/.
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Housing choice behaviour is made up of a wide array of dynamic individual level behaviour which can be recreated and explored using agent-based modelling (ABM). In the UK, there has been a renewed focus on urban regeneration policies over the past decade by the national government. Such policies seek to deal with the problems of deprivation in communities segregated by socioeconomic status. Using the case study district of East and South Easel Leeds (EASEL), an area known to have pockets of disadvantaged communities, the impacts of regeneration policy will be explored. A computer simulation of residential mobility and regeneration policy is created, in this way, the potential outcomes of regeneration schemes are explored.
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Noel, Guyma. "Haiti's Lack of National Consensus under the Lavalas Regimes: Political Incentives from Modernization, Rational Choice and Misperception Perspectives." restricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-01052009-113427/.
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Ng, Yuen-man. "Resident participation in housing management in Hong Kong a rational choice perspective /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3196946X.
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Ng, Yuen-man, and 吳婉雯. "Resident participation in housing management in Hong Kong: a rational choice perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196946X.
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Park, Miseon. "HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM: PATTERNS AND FACTORS OF SPATIAL CONCENTRATION IN CLEVELAND." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1291743552.
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Strozier, Sandra M. "Perspectives of Low-Income Homeowners on the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7341.
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Owning a home is often referred to as the American Dream. However, the reality for low income homeowners is often problematic. Some scholars suggested that homeowners are better off than renters are, while others suggested that the current quest for low-income homeownership interferes with other affordable housing initiatives. Yet, few researchers examined the decision-making process of low-income homeowners. This phenomenological study explores and describes the experiences, attitudes, and perspectives of low-income individuals and their homeownership decisions. This study further delineates the costs and benefits of the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program (HCVH) as perceived by low-income families in a southern U.S. city. Rational choice and social cognitive theories serve as a conceptual framework to explore the decision-making processes of people considering participating in the HCVH. Ten HCV clients responded to 13 semistructured questions. The results of the study generated 5 key themes: the pride of owning a home, weighing the costs and benefits of homeownership, leaving a legacy for children and grandchildren, lack of knowledge of the HCVH and other mortgage assistance programs, and “they did it so can I.” These findings suggest that all 10 participants believed in the benefits of owning a home. Several of the participants noted that there are also substantial costs associated with owning a home. This study has policy and social change implications for policymakers and low-income families considering purchasing a home. The recommendations include requiring all housing authorities establish HCVH programs and requiring housing authorities to provide post follow-up services for HCVH clients who exit the program.
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Wang, Jun. "Lifestyle and housing location choice a case study of residential differentiation of professionals in transitional Shanghai /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37777610.
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Dong, Hongwei. "Assessing Portland's Smart Growth: A Comprehensive Housing Supply and Location Choice Modeling Approach." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/183.
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There are extensive empirical studies on the impacts and effectiveness of Smart Growth policies; however, very few of them consider the perspective of individual decision makers and, to this author's knowledge, none have studied developers as location-aware decision-making agents. This study tries to fill this gap partially by assessing the impacts of Portland's smart growth policies on developers' location choice behavior with developer-based location choice models. The dissertation has two purposes. By assessing the impacts of Smart Growth policies on individual home developer's location choice, it provides a micro- and behavioral foundation for the understanding of Smart Growth policies. As a bi-state metropolitan area located on the border between Oregon and Washington, the Portland region provides a unique environment that allows my research to examine whether home developers react to Smart Growth policies differently in the two states with different land use policy systems. The dissertation also aims to create a developer-based land development forecast model, which can be used as a scenario analysis tool for the Portland region's long-term land use and transportation planning. Besides the developer location choice model mentioned above, the components of this comprehensive developer-based land development model also include a time series regression model that predicts annual new housing supply in the region and a model that synthesizes housing projects in a forecast year. The study shows that home developers in the Portland metropolitan area are sensitive to most Smart Growth policies that have been implemented in the region, but they react to them differently across the border between Oregon and Washington. Single-family home (SFH) and multi-family home (MFH) developers show different preferences for location attributes. The most significant predictors of where a developer will choose to locate a project are the locations of previous projects. After controlling for all of the other factors discussed above, there remains a strong preference for developing SFH units outside of the UGB in both Oregon and Washington sides of the Portland metropolitan area. Latent class models have been developed to detect taste variations among home developers in the SFH and MFH markets separately. Estimation results show clear taste variations across developers and housing projects with respect to site attributes in their location choice. With other variables in the segmentation model being the same, project size provides a better fit to the data than developer size, indicating that developers have taste variations among their different projects. Large size SFH projects developed by contractor-owners are more likely to be within the UGB and their locations tend to have higher residential density, housing diversity, transportation accessibility, road density, and land price. With most MFH projects within the UGB, estimation results show that large size MFH projects prefer the locations with higher residential density, housing diversity, mixed use, road density, land price, average household income, and proportion of young and middle age households. The three-step new housing supply and location choice forecast model seem to be able to capture the basic trend of housing market and land development in the Portland region. Three different aggregate housing supply forecast models, an conditional time series regressive model, a unconditional time series regression model, and an auto-regression integrated moving average (ARIMA) model were tested and their advantages and disadvantages were discussed. Both the SFH and MFH project synthesis models can simulate housing projects well for a forecast year. Three location choice models were developed to allocate synthesized housing projects into space. The three models are characterized separately as: (1) assumed market homogeneity and atomization of development projects; (2) deterministic market segmentation and synthesis of projects by size; and (3) probabilistic market segmentation and synthesis of projects by size, using a latent class approach. Examination of forecast results shows that all three models can successfully capture the basic spatial pattern of housing development in the region; however, the spatial distribution of MFH development is lumpier and more unpredictable. While Models 2 and 3 are more sophisticated and make more sense from a theoretical perspective, they do not return better forecast results than Model 1 due to some practical issues. Models 2 and 3 would be expected to perform better when those practical issues are solved, at least partially, in future research.
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Liu, Lexian. "Three Essays on Housing Returns." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243826860.
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Williams, David Richard. "Estimation of black and white housing services demand elasticities in the United States using a simultaneous model of tenure choice and housing services demand." Gainesville, FL, 1986. http://www.archive.org/details/estimationofblac00will.
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THOMAS, MONICA ELISE. "BARRIERS AFFECTING SUCCESS IN LOCATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE CINCINNATI METROPOLITAN REGION: A CASE STUDY OF CINCINNATI METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY'S (DMHA) SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022871725.
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Stanek, Richard James. "Residential Options for the Institutionalized Chronically Mentally Ill: The Impact of Psychosis on Choice." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4631.
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Discharge planning for hospitalized chronically mentally ill usually involves only verbal descriptions of community residential options. Psychosis often impairs ability to conceptualize abstract information, and quality of the choice process may be poor without describing options in concrete form, i.e., using written descriptions and photographs. A random sample (N= 90) of Dammasch State Hospital (Wilsonville, Oregon) patient population, comprising persons diagnosed schizophrenic, schizoaffective, organic mental disorder, and bipolar, were assigned to three treatment groups, asked to rank six community residential options suited for them when they were ready to leave the hospital. The three treatment groups were presented the same set of residential options, but the manner of presentation of options was manipulated: first group received verbal descriptions, second group received verbal descriptions with placards containing printed highlights of descriptions, third group received verbal descriptions, printed descriptions, and five photographs of each type of residential option. After ranking the options, respondents were asked how difficult it was to make their choices: very difficult, kind of difficult, not very difficult. Finally, an open-ended question was asked, "What guided you in making your choices?" Respondents' social workers were asked to rank same six residential options for each respondent. Chisquare and Kruskal-Wallis tests were computed for treatment groups-by-respondents' choices for first through sixth choice with no significance found. "Difficulty of Choice"by- treatment group analyses found no significance using Kruskal-Wallis test, and trend toward significance using chi-square. Content analysis of open-ended question, "What guided you ..• " yielded seven categories of answers, and chi-square of "What guided you"-by-respondents' first choice of residential setting was significant. "Experience" and "Privacy and Independence" were most influential factors from content analysis, but only trends toward significance were found in chi-square, cross-tabulating them by treatment group. Since cross-tabulation of respondents'-by-social workers' choices showed no significance, six rankings were collapsed into three and significance was found for supported housing option (respondents and social workers choosing it in common third or fourth) for total sample. Other significance was found in verbal treatment group for homeless shelter (chosen in common fifth or sixth), and for supported housing (chosen in common third or fourth). Rank correlations of respondents' and social workers' choices for total sample found significant negative relationship for room and board option. Rank correlations of choices by treatment group found significant negative relationship for room and board in the verbal treatment group; found significant positive relationship for residential care facility in the verbal/written treatment group; found significant negative relationship for room and board option in the verbal/written/visual treatment group. Abstraction deficits evidently do no affect the way chronically mentally ill persons choose residential options. The chronically mentally ill also do not find choosing a residential placement any more or less difficult given the presentation of written and visual descriptions in addition to verbal description. Given excess of "not very difficult" answers to "difficulty" question, validity of "difficulty" question to detect quality of choice process is questionable. Better outcome question may have been, "How satisfied are you with you choices?". Given distribution of respondents' and social workers' choices, compromise between independent living and residential care facility is suggested in choice of supported housing program.
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Biles, Michael Edwin. "The arousal and denial of residential tenants' expectations of the private law, non-financial remedies as effective cures for disrepair, unfitness and lack of amenity in their dwelling houses." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243042.
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Hullgren, Maria. "Essays on mortgage rate choice in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Bygg- och fastighetsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-129030.
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Buying a home is for many households the financially most important purchase they will make. The choice of mortgage instrument is also of importance in that it will determine a household’s financial exposure. In the aftermath of the 2007–2008 financial crisis in the United States, the potential consequences for borrowers and the financial system became apparent in many countries. Even though the choice of mortgage is described as a very complex transaction, international studies have found that borrowers are less than optimally knowledgeable about the possible future consequences of their choice. This lack of knowledge has raised concern and prompted calls for more research on differences between mortgage markets and factors affecting consumers’ mortgage choice. This thesis answers this call by empirically exploring the Swedish case and by offering an expanded knowledge about factors that influence borrowers’ mortgage choice. The thesis consists of five papers, and, in most cases, interviews and questionnaires were used to collect the data, depending on which type of data collection was considered best suited to serve the purpose of the individual paper. A close reading approach was also applied in one of the papers. The findings indicate that in a Swedish setting, there are factors affecting borrowers’ mortgage choice that have not previously been fully explored in the literature: the media and bank advisors. During the period studied, a negative correlation existed between the media and the choice of fixed rate mortgages, whereas a positive correlation existed between bank advisors and the choice of fixed rate mortgages. The study on advice given by a bank advisor also shows the advocacy of a mix of fixed and adjustable mortgage rates. Further findings corroborate those of earlier international studies, such as the impact of income, education, financial literacy and loan-to-value ratios on mortgage choice. A general conclusion that can be drawn from the findings in the Swedish context is that the most financially vulnerable borrowers—those with lower income, lower education and/or higher loan-to-value ratios—are more likely to choose higher levels of fixed rate mortgages (or lower levels of adjustable rate mortgages). In doing so, they avoid exposing themselves to liquidity problems, which can be caused by increasing mortgage rates, and make future mortgage expenditures more predictable. These findings contradict much of the concern that both scholars and financial authorities have expressed about households’ choice of mortgage instrument. Hence, these findings are of importance not only to research on mortgage choice but also to policymakers and the financial industry.QC 20130924
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Machler, Leonard. "Evaluating how neighbourhood housing diversity relates with residential location choice, residential satisfaction and health." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56265.
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Urban planners have long advocated strategies that enable a broad spectrum of the population to live in their preferred communities. In particular, planning researchers emphasize the importance of enabling households with preferences for Smart Growth communities to match. Living in Smart Growth communities – characterized by higher densities, more mixed land uses, and better access to transport alternatives to the car - has been empirically linked with improved health, environmental and economic outcomes. One widely cited neighbourhood matching strategy is to increase the level of housing mix - or the diversity and distribution of different housing typologies within a neighbourhood - to permit households of lesser financial means to trade living space for an opportunity to live in their desired communities. However, no empirical study has investigated whether increased neighbourhood housing mix is associated with higher levels of neighbourhood matching in the population. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the effectiveness of housing mix as a planning strategy. Using data obtained from a residential preference survey of 1,186 Vancouver area households, this project investigates the association between neighbourhood housing mix and the ability for households to match into their preferred neighbourhood type. The project also tests the association between neighbourhood match and neighbourhood satisfaction as well as the association between neighbourhood match and two measures of health: self-reported health status and body mass index (BMI). Neighbourhood match is defined two ways: based on a survey respondent’s subjective interpretation of their actual neighbourhood design compared to their preferences (i.e. “subjective match), and a comparison of the respondent’s survey-indicated preference versus an objective assessment of their community based on measurable features of the built environment (i.e. “objective match”). Findings reveal that housing mix only significantly predicts objective match, and significant associations are limited to owner-occupiers and respondents under the age of 60. Objective match is not a significant predictor of neighbourhood satisfaction or health. This dissertation concludes that housing mix is not an effective planning strategy for enabling households with Smart Growth preferences to live in their desired community.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Sung, Yim-ling, and 宋艷伶. "To evaluate the impact of government intervention on housing tenure choice in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30782041.
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In Hong Kong, due to the government's strong intervention in the housing market, the housing subsidy system and rationing on owner-occupation and the public rental housing sector have significant impact on households' tenure decisions. As laid down in the first and second Long Term Housing Strategy respectively in 1987 and 1998. the government adopted an active policy of promoting home ownership towards privatization via various subsidies, like the Home Ownership Scheme (I IOS) and the I lome Purchase Loan Scheme (HPLS). During this period, property ownership was also regarded as an inflation-resistant investment and an effective wealth accumulation vehicle.
Unfortunately, the property market slump following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis has come to mean Ihe cessation of the "wealth escalator" function of property ownership. In view of lackluster property market and the political pressure, the government took the unprecedented decision on 13 November 2002 to extricate itself from the role as a direct provider of subsidized sale flats, allowing market forces to address the problem. A new Home Assistance Loan Scheme (HALS) was introduced on 2 January, 2003 as a phase process. On 14 July 2004. the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) also ceased the provision of 1IALS in order to be freed from the heavy financial burden. Currently, the subsidized home ownership of 1 long Kong
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It is noted that structural changes that characterize the housing and labor markets in the new age of global economy are creating some impact on housing market behavior. As the risks arising from the higher incidence of unemployment, low wage work and volatile housing prices increase, homeowners now prudently, re-assess the terms and conditions before committing to mortgage arrangements.
This research centers on investigating the determinants of tenure choice from the approved purchasers of HALS and their views over producer and customer subsidies to home ownership, i.e. HOS versus HALS. '1'hc findings in this paper reveal that factors like age, family structure and income of the household do carry weight in the decision-making process of property purchase. With diversifying social composition nowadays, singletons have become a growing source of homeowners in recent years. The research also indicates that despite certain reticence during the economic turmoil, home purchase instead of renting remains a fundamental priority, and stagnation in purchase is largely due to financial constraints. Moreover. homeowners are now more cautious in taking up loans and are generally more concerned about housing affordabilily and the early repayment of debt. Additionally, they are less inclined to attain higher social status through filtering up the housing ladder, and lend lo place more emphasis on use value, ontological security andabstract
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Wang, Jun, and 王珺. "Lifestyle and housing location choice: a casestudy of residential differentiation of professionals in transitionalShanghai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37777610.
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Cho, Joo Hyun. "An asset-based theory of housing choice under credit constraints : the case of Korea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14766.
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Mallchok, Parker. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? How Land Use Regulation Impacts Housing Choice." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1474.
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Ideally, land use policies correct for negative externalities. However, the barriers they impose on individuals and communities have serious implications. Existing studies on this topic focus on singular, specific areas because land regulation is determined at the local level and varies extensively across the nation. Furthermore, current housing literature focuses on the “norm” of single family housing. This ignores the changing attitudes toward different types of dwellings. My study examines local regulatory environments across the nation by using Gyourko et al. 2008’s Wharton Residential Land Use Regulation Index, which develops a comparative scale for the otherwise impossibly varied regulatory environments. I also use micro data from the American Community Survey to see individual housing choices. Then, with a custom-made dataset from these two sources, I use empirical regression analysis to study the effects of land use regulation on people’s housing decisions, specifically the choice between a single-family house and a multi-family apartment complex. My results show that more restrictive regulation makes a person more likely to rent their home as well as occupy a multi-family apartment complex as opposed to a single-family home.
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Alabi, Ijeoma Uchenna. "Tenant’s choice of residential property location in Mankweng Township, Polokwane Local Municipality." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1163.
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Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2013The aim of the study was to carry out an analysis of the factors influencing tenants’ choice of residential property location in Mankweng Township. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The structured questionnaire, interview and documented literature were used to collect data. The data were analysed using the SPSS statistical package and the Excel spread sheet. To this end, specific working objectives were formulated as follows: to identify the types of residential property in the study area, to determine the factors which influence the choice of residential property location in the study area and lastly, to compare the relationships that exist among the residents in Mankweng Township. The results of the research showed that among all the factors marital status, age, household’s size, race, education and income were not among the factors influencing the choice of residential location in Mankweng Township. However, gender, employment status, distance from city centre, hospital, place of worship, security or police station, water and electricity significantly influenced the choice of residential location choice in Mankweng Township. The study therefore recommends government to be more responsive and active in the provision of urban infrastructure and services in every neighbourhood. This will help address the major reason why tenants search for accommodation from one location to another. In addition, real estate investors should consider the availability of infrastructure before choosing a location for community development. Thus, when urban facilities and services are evenly distributed, this may enhance proper development in the community