Journal articles: 'Low income housing developments'

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Tillyer, Marie Skubak, and Rebecca J. Walter. "Low-Income Housing and Crime: The Influence of Housing Development and Neighborhood Characteristics." Crime & Delinquency 65, no. 7 (August 17, 2018): 969–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128718794185.

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This study examines the distribution of crime across various types of low-income housing developments and estimates the main and interactive effects of housing development and neighborhood characteristics on crime. Negative binomial regression models were estimated to observe the influence of security and design features, neighborhood concentrated disadvantage, residential stability, and nearby nonresidential land use on crime at the housing developments. The findings suggest that low-income housing developments are not uniformly criminogenic, and both development characteristics and neighborhood conditions are relevant for understanding crime in low-income housing developments. Implications for prevention are discussed.

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Oakley, Deirdre. "Locational Patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments." Urban Affairs Review 43, no. 5 (January 15, 2008): 599–628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087407309432.

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Average, Chigwenya. "Low income housing problems and low-income housing solutions: opportunities and challenges in Bulawayo." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 34, no. 3 (May 30, 2019): 927–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-019-09676-w.

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Abstract The provision of housing for the low-income has been a major problem in many countries and the developing world has been hard hit. This inability has been the chief cause of the burgeoning slum settlement in cities of the globe where one billion people live in slum areas. The solution to the housing problem lies in the opening up of stakeholders’ participation in the provision of housing, where government, non-governmental organisation, multilateral agencies and the community can play a critical role. Critical in the whole process is the participation of urban poor in the provision of housing for the poor, where they are critical actors in defining housing programmes that best suit the urban poor. This research seeks to analyse the initiatives that have been taken by the urban poor in the city of Bulawayo in providing housing for the poor. The research made use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in investigating the matter. Questionnaire was the main instrument to collect quantitative data and interviews and field observations were used to collect qualitative data. The research showed that there are a lot positive initiatives by the urban poor in the city of Bulawayo to provide house for the urban poor and these initiatives appear appealing to the poor as they are giving them a roof over their heads, which was never a dream in their lives. Though they appear noble they however fall far too short to provide sustainable housing to the poor as they appear to be a potential health hazard for the city. There is need for city authorities or any interested stakeholder to provide more support to such initiatives so that they can provide more sustainable housing for the poor. This will produce a housing scheme that will contribute to reduction of slum dwellers as called by the Millennium Development Goals.

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Williamson, Anne R. "Can They Afford the Rent? Resident Cost Burden in Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments." Urban Affairs Review 47, no. 6 (September 7, 2011): 775–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087411417078.

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Although the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the primary vehicle through which subsidized rental housing is developed in the United States, we know little about whether residents in LIHTC units can actually afford their rent. This article examines affordability as defined by the cost burden measure for nearly 38,000 Florida LIHTC households. Results indicate that the majority of LIHTC residents are cost burdened, and a smaller proportion are severely cost burdened. Results are presented based on race, ethnicity, and income, with separate analyses for LIHTC tenants who do not participate in the Housing Choice Voucher program and those who do. Findings indicate that Whites typically do not fare better than minorities in terms of cost burden in LIHTC developments. Further, participation in the Housing Choice Voucher program does not necessarily prevent cost burden. LIHTC residents with household incomes between 50% and 60% of area median fare best in avoiding cost burden.

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Freedman, Matthew, and Emily G. Owens. "Low-income housing development and crime." Journal of Urban Economics 70, no. 2-3 (September 2011): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2011.04.001.

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Samsam Shariat, Sayyed Jamaleddin, Asghar Zarrabi, and Masoud Taghvaei. "Analysis of the Low-Income Housing in Isfahan Metropolis." Modern Applied Science 11, no. 3 (January 26, 2017): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v11n3p120.

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Despite the importance of housing in human life, the provision of adequate and affordable housing for all people is one of the current problems of the human society because almost half of the world’s population lives in poverty and about 600 to 800 million people reside in substandard housing conditions. The present study, therefore, has been conducted in order to identify the needy groups and, too, housing the low-income groups in Isfahan City. The study is a fundamental-applied research adopting a descriptive-analytical methodology. Variables of the research are the income deciles, housing quantity developments, land and housing prices, the system of housing finance, housing status in the expenditure basket of the low-income households, the Gini coefficient of housing costs, the effective demand for housing in the income deciles considering the area of infrastructure and the access to housing index. The findings reveal that the year 2008 had the highest increase in the housing prices with an increase as 20.4% and the lowest one refers to the year 2010 with an increase as 8.6%. The Gini coefficient of housing cost for urban households shows a downtrend until 2005 and from 2006 onward, the gap has started to increase. Regarding access to the housing index, the results show that in 2003 the low income decile could afford one square meter of housing by saving the total household income for 75 days; whereas in 2011, this degree raised to 206 days. What is noteworthy here is the deep gap between the high-income and low-income deciles in the saving days for one square meter, which differs 10.5 times between the first decile and the tenth decile.

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Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, and Justin Marion. "The effects of low income housing tax credit developments on neighborhoods." Journal of Public Economics 93, no. 5-6 (June 2009): 654–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.01.001.

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Elwidaa, Eiman Ahmed. "Women and LoW-income Housing TransformaTion in uganda." Open House International 42, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2017-b0006.

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The article explores the transformations low-income women make to appropriate their housing that often goes unnoticed. The aim is to document, acknowledge and make low-income women's efforts to appropriate their housing visible. Lessons learned are assumed to inform the Ugandan low-income housing discourse on design considerations that can contribute to the provision of housing designs that are conducive to low-income women. The study confines its investigation to the housing designs provided under the governmental low-income housing projects in Uganda. This article presents results from a case study on Masese Women Housing Project MWHP that targeted women as its main beneficiaries. Post Occupancy Evaluations POE methodology was utilised to collect data on the performance of the housing designs provided by the project and the transformations women make to increase their housing appropriateness. Open-ended interviews were carried out with women owners to investigate the transformations they apply to their houses. Results are documented through photography, sketches and measured drawings. Results are synthesised and analysed under outdoors and indoors transformations. The study confirmed the substantial contribution low-income women make to appropriate their housing. It argues for acknowledging and including women's efforts in the Ugandan low-income housing discourse to support the provision of housing designs that are more user-friendly to them. Design considerations that are essential to attain low-income women convenience with their housing are: its capacity to accommodate women's triple roles, their potential for incremental development and their ability for segmentation into autonomous housing units to allow for their flexible, economic and functional use. The study advocates for directing efforts to the development of traditional building technologies instead of introducing improved but alien ones as an alternative that is more favourable to women.

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Holme, Jennifer Jellison, Erica Frankenberg, Joanna Sanchez, Kendra Taylor, Sarah De La Garza, and Michelle Kennedy. "Subsidized housing and school segregation: Examining the relationship between federally subsidized affordable housing and racial and economic isolation in schools." education policy analysis archives 28 (November 9, 2020): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5290.

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Each year, the federal government provides billions of dollars in support for low-income families in their acquisition of housing. In this analysis, we examine how several of these subsidized housing programs, public housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) financed housing, relate to patterns of school segregation for children. We use GIS to examine the location of subsidized housing vis-à-vis district boundaries and school attendance boundaries in four Texas counties. We then examine patterns of segregation between schools with and without subsidized housing in their attendance zones, as well as the extent of economic and racial isolation experienced by students in those schools. Our results illustrate that public housing and LIHTC housing developments are zoned to racially and economically isolated schools, and that developments are associated with especially high levels of economic and racial isolation for Black and Latinx students. We conclude by discussing implications for housing and education policy to ameliorate these patterns.

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Denpaiboon, Chaweewan, Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura, and Mitsuo Takada. "Public Sector Versus Civil Society: An Approach to Affordable Housing Development in Thailand." MANUSYA 13, no. 1 (2010): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01301001.

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This article focuses on the identification and illustration of the shift in low income housing policy and implementation in Thailand. Housing is one of the major sectors of national development; it plays a vital role in a developing country. Policy and housing mechanisms have witnessed major shifts toward affordable housing since 1973, mainly implemented by the public sector. This article is concerned with the decentralization of the governmental role in providing shelters for low income groups to the present-day civil society activity in the creation of affordable housing. The role of civic social innovation in urban development was a result of key social structure changes to strengthen a community based on social capital. An affordable house is not a spatial organization but rather a reflection of social movement planning. The objectives of the study were (1) To analyze a comparative study between public sector and civic society approaches to affordable housing development by NHA and CODI; (2) To analyze the lesson learnt from development projects by government and civil society, using a thorough analysis of the process of participatory subsidies; (3) To identify the government policy and civic society by NHA and CODI effects on urban development processes in Bangkok Metropolitan Areas. This could help NHA to identify any necessary changes to policies to encourage low income housing development; and (4) To recommend a policy of affordable housing developments for the low income group. The research method comprised a field-base case study using observation, interviews, and questionnaires, which was conducted among a random selection sample of 200 households in Baan Eua Ah-torn Project and Baan Man Kong Project. These findings provide a policy framework that brings together three concepts. First, a policy of providing for low income groups alone is not effective in the development of housing projects; it should mix income groups for sustainable housing development. Second, Baan Man Kong Project places more emphasis on the process and continuity of development than Baan Eua Ah-torn projects. Third, both projects will support the housing shortage. In the final section, conclusions are drawn about social innovation in governmental policy, focusing on empowering experiments with decentralization and governmental democracy accessible to civil society and its interests.

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BENMERGUI, LEANDRO. "The Alliance for Progress and housing policy in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in the 1960s." Urban History 36, no. 02 (July 30, 2009): 303–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926809006300.

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ABSTRACTThis article explores the construction of publicly financed low-income housing complexes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1960s. These housing developments were possible thanks to the arrival of foreign economic and technical assistance from the Alliance for Progress. Urban scholars, politicians, diplomats and urbanists of the Americas sought to promote middle-class habits, mass consumption and moderate political behaviour, especially among the poor, by expanding access to homeownership and ‘decent’ living conditions for a burgeoning urban population. As a result, the history of low-income housing should be understood within broader transnational discourses and practices about the ‘modernization’ and ‘development’ of the urban poor.

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Uwayezu, Ernest, and Walter T. de Vries. "Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices." Land 9, no. 3 (March 16, 2020): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9030085.

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The government of Rwanda recently passed housing development regulations and funding schemes which aim at promoting access to affordable houses for the low- and middle-income Kigali city inhabitants. The existing studies on housing affordability in this city did not yet discuss whether this government-supported programme is likely to promote access to housing for these target beneficiaries. This study applies the price-to-income ratio (PIR) approach and the 30-percent of household income standard through the bank loan to assess whether housing units developed in the framework of affordable housing schemes are, for the target recipients, affordable at all. It relies mainly on housing prices schemes held by real estate developers, data on households’ incomes collected through the household survey and a review of the existing studies and socio-economic censuses reports. Findings reveal that the developed housing units are seriously and severely unaffordable for most of the target beneficiaries, especially the lowest-income urban dwellers, due to the high costs of housing development, combined with the high profits expected by real estate developers. The study suggests policy and practical options for promoting inclusive urban (re)development and housing affordability for various categories of Kigali city inhabitants. These options include upgrading the existing informal settlements, combined with their conversion into shared apartments through the collaboration between property owners and real estate developers, the development of affordable rental housing for the low-income tenants, tax exemption on construction materials, progressive housing ownership through a rent-to-own approach, and incremental self-help housing development using the low-cost local materials.

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Rashid, Masud Ur. "Transformation of Housing in Low-income Settlement: A Study of Domestic Spaces in Ershad Nagar Resettlement Camp." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 16 (June 30, 2019): 119–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj201916119146.

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Housing transformation is a major livelihood strategy among low-income households in formal and informal settlements. Domestic spaces are produced for social unit. This study illustrates the analysis of domestic spaces in a low-income settlement and their impact on the way of life of the inhabitants. The factors that affect the physical organization of spaces and its quality are evaluated with respect to the survival strategy of the low-income dwellers. The space organization of the dwelling units in low-income settlements illustrates different structures and forms that may not fit the conventional understanding of modern urban housing. The space organization of such dwelling reflects the users need and space requirements and the incremental developments are experienced with mutual understanding of the neighbors. In this respect, the physical characteristics a low-income settlement in Dhaka are investigated; namely Ershad Nagar resettlement camp. Besides the housing and neighborhood characteristics, the economic, social and cultural status of people living in those areas is examined. The study shows that for some reasons the domestic spaces of the low-income housing are being transformed in course of time since their establishment. And the transformation of domestic spaces reflects the overall housing transformation of the settlement.

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Desai, Vandana. "ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WITHIN LOW-INCOME HOUSING." Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies 6, no. 2 (July 1994): 167–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-940x.1994.tb00056.x.

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Zanariah, Irfan Ridwan Maksum, and Eko Prasodjo. "Policy for Implementing Housing Development Licensing for Low-Income Communities in Palembang City." International Journal of Science and Society 3, no. 2 (June 13, 2021): 276–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.54783/ijsoc.v3i2.339.

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In the context of accelerating housing development for low-income people (MBR), the government makes simplification efforts in simplifying licensing for low-income housing development. To expedite this, the government issued Government Regulation Number 64 of 2016 concerning Low-Income Community Housing Development, then to accelerate its implementation in the regions, it is regulated in Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 55 of 2017 concerning Implementation of Licensing and Non-Permitting Housing Development for Low-Income Communities (MBR) in the Region. This study aims to determine government policies related to the implementation of MBR housing development and to determine the performance of the Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 55 of 2017 concerning the Implementation of Licensing and Non-Licensing of Housing Development for Low-Income Communities (MBR) in the Regions, especially in the city of Palembang.

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Basolo, Victoria, Edith Huarita, and Jongho Won. "A Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments in the State of California and Los Angeles County." Urban Science 6, no. 2 (June 6, 2022): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6020039.

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Some housing researchers have criticized the United States housing subsidy scheme referred to as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program for failing to promote better opportunities for low-income persons. In this study, therefore, we examine the socio-economic and built-environment characteristics of LIHTC developments at the neighborhood level. Specifically, we aim to investigate the characteristics associated with LIHTC developments compared to neighborhoods without this kind of development. We focus on California statewide initially and then narrow our focus to examine LIHTC developments in Los Angeles County (LAC). We then compare the results from the two levels of government. We compiled data from several sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, the State of California, the Southern California Association of Governments, and other secondary sources; used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to aid in creating several location-based indicators; and employed logistic regression for analyses. Our results show that LIHTC developments at the statewide and county levels tend to be in racially/ethnically diverse neighborhoods with higher levels of economic hardship, lower rents, a higher percentage of renters, and spatial clustering of LIHTC developments. With LAC removed from the state-level analysis, economic hardship is not more likely to occur in LIHTC neighborhoods. This finding suggests, except for in LAC, state policies may be having some level of success in locating LIHTC housing outside of hardship areas. Finally, in examining additional built-environment variables in LAC, we find LIHTC developments were more likely to be in a neighborhood with a park than other neighborhoods in the county. We discuss these results further and conclude with a brief recap of results, policy recommendations, and suggestions for future research.

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Liu, Jian, and Huay Ying Ong. "Can Malaysia’s National Affordable Housing Policy Guarantee Housing Affordability of Low-Income Households?" Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 7, 2021): 8841. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168841.

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Housing affordability is a long-held issue in Malaysia, and housing policies have been implemented for low-income households over the years. However, there is a contradiction that housing affordability of low-income households has not been met, while the bulk of affordable housing is still vacant. In 2019, Malaysia enacted the National Affordable Housing Policy (DRMM) which was intended to improve housing affordability for low-income groups. This paper aims to answer why Malaysia’s long-term implementation of affordable housing policies cannot guarantee housing affordability, and whether the DRMM can effectively improve housing affordability as expected, by comparing the empirical factors of housing affordability. A literature review and a comparative analysis are adopted in the research. The paper concludes that low household income, high land price, construction cost and compliance cost, mismatch of supply and demand in terms of quantity, the instability of the national economy, low home financing ability, and incomprehensive housing planning have caused low housing affordability of low-income groups in Malaysia. The DRMM as anticipated can improve housing affordability by supplying affordable housing more precisely, lowering housing costs, and improving home financing ability. However, the exclusion of household income and economic factors may cause the ineffectiveness of the DRMM in improving housing affordability for low-income households.

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Sikkema, K. J., T. G. Heckman, J. A. Kelly, E. S. Anderson, R. A. Winett, L. J. Solomon, D. A. Wagstaff, et al. "HIV risk behaviors among women living in low-income, inner-city housing developments." American Journal of Public Health 86, no. 8_Pt_1 (August 1996): 1123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.86.8_pt_1.1123.

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SIKKEMA, K., M. BRONDINO, E. ANDERSON, C. GOREFELTON, J. KELLY, R. WINETT, T. HECKMAN, and R. ROFFMAN. "HIV risk behavior among ethnically diverse adolescents living in low-income housing developments." Journal of Adolescent Health 35, no. 2 (August 2004): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00391-4.

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Domínguez-Amarillo, Samuel, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Miguel Ángel Campano, and Ignacio Acosta. "Effect of Airtightness on Thermal Loads in Legacy Low-Income Housing." Energies 12, no. 9 (May 2, 2019): 1677. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12091677.

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Spain’s high winter weather-associated death count, the second largest in Europe, can be attributed primarily to the low construction standards of its social housing, particularly the stock built prior to the entry into effect of the earliest statutory provisions on envelope quality. Hence, improving building envelopes to both reduce energy consumption and raise occupant comfort levels is important. Air leakage is one of the factors with the greatest impact on indoor comfort and domestic energy consumption. This study explores the sensitivity of energy consumption to that parameter in a series of types of social housing built between 1950 and 1979 in five Mediterranean climate zones. Demand in a total of 53 housing units located in 21 developments was simulated to that end. The findings show that air permeability has a significant effect on wintertime demand in the sample studied. Although the impact is greater in the more severe climates where it is estimated to be over 10 kWh/m2, it may also affect energy consumption in mild climates.

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Park, Sohyun, Aram Yang, Hui Jeong Ha, and Jinhyung Lee. "Measuring the Differentiated Impact of New Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Projects on Households’ Movements by Income Level within Urban Areas." Urban Science 5, no. 4 (October 15, 2021): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5040079.

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Social mixing is one of the key objectives of the housing policy in OECD countries. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, the largest affordable housing construction program in the US since 1986, has recently set creating mixed-income communities as one of the standards. As a project-based program, LIHTC developments are likely to influence residential mobility; however, little is known about its empirical effects. This study investigated whether new LIHTC projects are effective at attracting heterogeneous income groups to LIHTC neighborhoods, thereby contributing to creating mixed-income communities. Using unique individual-level household movement data combined with origin–destination neighborhood characteristics, we developed zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) models to analyze the LIHTC’s impact on residential mobility patterns in Franklin County, Ohio, US, from 2011 to 2015. The results suggest that the LIHTC attracts low-income households while deterring higher-income families, and therefore the program is not proved to be effective at creating mixed-income neighborhoods.

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Furth, Salim. "Decomposing Housing Unaffordability." Critical Housing Analysis 8, no. 1 (June 2021): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2021.8.1.523.

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A US household is considered ‘rent burdened’ when its rent exceeds 30% of its income. This simple ratio can be decomposed to better understand the sources of unaffordability across space. To demonstrate this new approach, I rewrite the equation for rent burden as a sum of four factors: rent gap, income gap, excess size cost, and demographic baseline, and show that US rental unaffordability is mostly the result of low incomes. Focusing on the New England region, however, I show that high rent is the primary cause of unaffordability in high-cost, high-wage metro areas. This decomposition can help affordability advocates prioritise strategies appropriately across space.

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Chaskin, Robert J., and Mark L. Joseph. "Contested Space." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 660, no. 1 (June 9, 2015): 136–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716215576113.

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At the center of Chicago’s large-scale public housing transformation is a stated emphasis on economic integration. Based on interviews, field observations, and documentary research in three new, mixed-income communities that were built on the footprint of former public housing developments in Chicago, this article examines how design choices and regulatory regimes militate against the effective integration of public housing residents in these contexts. We find that the strategies used to maintain social order contribute to redirecting the integrationist aims of the development policy toward a kind of incorporated exclusion, in which physical integration reproduces marginalization and leads more to withdrawal and alienation than to the engagement and inclusion of relocated public housing residents and other low-income residents.

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Odoyi, Emmanuel Joseph, and Kirsikka Riekkinen. "Housing Policy: An Analysis of Public Housing Policy Strategies for Low-Income Earners in Nigeria." Sustainability 14, no. 4 (February 16, 2022): 2258. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14042258.

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This article evaluates the Global South housing policy for low-income earners by utilising the Nigerian example to analyse public housing policy strategies used to provide housing to low-income earners. The materials employed in the study were housing policy programme documents provided by various ministries that are linked to housing between 1991 and 2020. The housing policy documents were subjected to qualitative content and thematic analysis. The analysis of the selected housing policy documents showed seven key policy strategies that are intended to strengthen affordable housing development. These strategic themes are funds, schemes, governments, implementation, development, land, and rurality. The findings indicated that the existence of housing policy strategical themes does not translate to affordable housing development and housing affordability for low-income earners, though the effective activation and implementation of strategical themes will promote affordable housing development.

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Sardina, Angela, Adrienne Aiken-Morgan, and Alyssa Gamaldo. "Contextual and Social Characteristics Relevant to Health and Well-Being in African American and White Adult Populations." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1918.

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Abstract With the burgeoning older adult population, there will be an increased demand for neighborhood and housing developments conducive to the interests and needs of older adults from diverse backgrounds of varying health and functional status. Several initiatives have sought to develop age-friendly neighborhoods, which focused on improving access and affordability of community resources. However, limited effort has focused on physical and social attributes of immediate housing environments, particularly amongst lower-income older adults. The need for affordable and usable housing developments for older adults that provide greater opportunities for social engagement, social services, and convenience to neighborhood resources (e.g., grocery stores, healthcare) will continue to rise. The objectives of the proposed symposium are the following: (1) to explore the physical and social attributes of older and low-income residents’ housing and their surrounding community; and (2) discuss how older and low-income residents’ housing and community resources relates to their health and well-being. This symposium will include presentations from three pilot investigations that highlight relevant subjective and objective contextual metrics related to health and well-being in underserved older populations. Tan and colleagues explored the role of well-being (i.e., purpose in life) in the relationships among sociodemographics, health, housing and community resources. Sardina and colleagues explored perceived leisure barriers and their relationship to sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial characteristics. Aiken-Morgan and colleagues examined associations between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health status among low-income African American older adults. Wright and colleagues explored associations between neighborhood disadvantage, brain health, and neurocognitive function in cognitively normal older adults.

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Tomlinson, Richard. "Land for low-income housing in South Africa." Urban Forum 1, no. 2 (June 1990): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03036575.

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Wood, Gavin A. "Promoting the supply of low income rental housing." Urban Policy and Research 19, no. 4 (December 2001): 425–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111140108727892.

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Elkaftangui, Mohamed, and Mohamed Basem. "Optimizing prefabricated construction techniques in UAE as a solution to shortage of middle-income housing." MATEC Web of Conferences 221 (2018): 01006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822101006.

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Housing is a major subject in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, JLL, the world’s leading real estate investment and advisory firm, highlights the social and economic impact of a marked shortfall in the required supply of middle-income housing, suggesting that significant efforts are needed to address the current imbalance. For an equal standard and life style in UAE and KSA, the gap of sale and rent prices raises many questions. The middle-income sector of the market represent almost 40 percent of all households in the UAE. Several factors that have contributed to the current shortage of affordable housing, high land values, High capital costs for associated infrastructure development, low adoption of prefabricated construction techniques have contributed to higher construction costs, lower financial returns, making such developments less attractive for developers, limited access to suitable finance for low income families, due to generally immature mortgage markets. Resolving the shortage of middle-income housing requires a concentrated effort involving government agencies, private developers and other stakeholders. This Study will investigate the UAE Housing market to propose solutions for a better progress of the precast sector and focusing on the promotion of sustainable and industrial approaches to construction.

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Ahmed, Iftekhar, Jalel Sager, and Le Vu Cuong. "Sustainable Low-Income Urban Housing in Vietnam: Context and Strategies." Open House International 35, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 56–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2010-b0007.

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This paper presents concepts important for understanding the potential of sustainable low-income housing in Vietnam, with a focus on key environmental, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions that bear on its housing sector. It examines challenges for sustainable urban development in Hanoi and HCMC, Vietnam's two main cities. Recognising the current challenges in balancing affordability and sustainability, the study explores Vietnam's lack of adequate and affordable housing and the problem of its urban slums. Synergistic strategies suitable for the Vietnamese context are then suggested for sustainable low-income housing in these two cities.

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Nelson, Kristin W. "CHOICES AND OPPORTUNITIES: Low-Income Rental Housing in Indonesia." Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies 1, no. 2 (July 1989): 49–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-940x.1989.tb00012.x.

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Sahasranaman, Anand, Vishnu Prasad, and Aditi Balachander. "Housing Choice as a Function of Risks Confronting Low-income Households." Journal of Emerging Market Finance 19, no. 1 (December 9, 2019): 100–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972652719877475.

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The design of housing solutions for low-income populations has been one of the most pressing policy concerns in developing countries like India. In this work, we explore the effect of risks confronting low-income households—unemployment, health and mortality—on their choice of housing arrangements. We use simulations to study the evolution of long-term wealth of a stylised low-income household faced with these risks and find that, on average, rental housing significantly reduces the risk of undesirable wealth fluctuations over time. From a policy perspective, this means greater focus and incentives for the development of low-income rental markets using strategies such as provision of rental vouchers, rent-to-own models or long-term leases, in addition to the traditional ownership-based housing strategies. The development of housing solutions encompassing a range of rental and ownership models will be critical to ensuring the availability of safe and affordable housing for all urban residents. JEL Codes: C63, O18

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Deng, Feng. "Institutions for housing subsidisation: the case of low-income housing in China." Town Planning Review 91, no. 1 (January 2020): 71–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.4.

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Mitlin, Diana. "Editorial: Finance for low-income housing and community development." Environment and Urbanization 19, no. 2 (October 2007): 331–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247807082817.

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Freedman, Matthew, and Tamara McGavock. "Low-Income Housing Development, Poverty Concentration, and Neighborhood Inequality." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 34, no. 4 (July 14, 2015): 805–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.21856.

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Varady, David P. "Toward a New National Housing Policy." Journal of Planning Literature 3, no. 3 (June 1988): 268–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088541228800300302.

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This essay reviews A Decent Place to Live, by the National Housing Task Force, as well as two other reports used to prepare it. The Task Force's main recommendation is a major new housing supply initiative to address the worsening problems of low-income renters. The Low Income Housing Preservation Commission's report proposes ways to save two million units of privately owned and federally subsidized low-income rental units currently in jeopardy. The National Conference of State Legislatures report identifies a number of state strategies for making housing affordable to low-income families. The broad coverage, up-to-date analyses, and provocative suggestions make these reports an important resource for planners and policymakers.

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Delgado, Alina, and Frank De Troyer. "Modeling Quality and Housing Preferences for Affordable New Housing Developments." Open House International 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2011-b0004.

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A fundamental change in the planning and delivery of new housing projects has taken place in the last years, with the focus shifting towards adding value to projects based on a better understanding of housing preferences. This issue becomes even more critical when it is intended to the provision of affordable houses for low and middle income groups. This paper describes a model designed to help developers and housing users to achieve their expectations regarding quality, affordability and including also reasonable profits. Developed through a “methodological pluralism”, this study identifies people-oriented variables and assumptions. The model was developed based on a case study in the city of Guayaquil-Ecuador, and information obtained from field work research was used to test it. The study examines implications and limitations of the model for inclusion of housing preferences considering local conditions and cultural values. The different parts of the model along with data requirements for each part are described. The paper concludes with findings regarding the identification of most preferred attributes by housing users and the use of alternatives methods to incorporate additional value into projects, translated into more appealing profits for developers and the provision of better and more affordable houses for users.

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Bendick, Marc. "Low-Income Housing Assistance Switches from Production to Vouchers." Journal of the American Planning Association 51, no. 4 (December 31, 1985): 475–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944368508976836.

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von Hoffman, Alexander. "History lessons for today's housing policy: the politics of low-income housing." Housing Policy Debate 22, no. 3 (June 2012): 321–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2012.680478.

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Wijaya, Mendra, and Handrisal Handrisal. "Kebijakan Penyelenggaraan Perumahan Masyarakat Berpenghasilan Rendah di Kabupaten Lahat Provinsi Sumatera Selatan." KEMUDI : Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan 6, no. 01 (August 15, 2021): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31629/kemudi.v6i01.3579.

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In essence, the implementing regulations for the construction of housing and settlement areas are clear as the responsibility of the government, as has been described above that the government's role is to determine development in the field of housing and settlement areas. The central government program with 1 (one) million subsidized houses would also pay more attention to its implementation performance, so that the existing implementing regulations will not only become passive laws. In Indonesia today there are still many regulations which in the end become a symptom of problems in their own country. In the context of accelerating housing development for low-income people (MBR), the government makes simplification efforts in simplifying licensing for low-income housing development. By issuing Government Regulation Number 64 of 2016 concerning Low-Income Community Housing Development, then to accelerate its implementation in the regions, it is regulated in Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 55 of 2017 concerning the Implementation of Licensing and Non-Licensing of Housing Development for Low-Income Communities (MBR) in the Region. This study aims to determine government policies related to the implementation of MBR housing development and to determine the implementation of Housing Development Permits for Low-Income Communities (MBR) in the Regions, especially in Lahat Regency, South Sumatra Province.

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Wiraprana, Mas Guntur, and Martin Roestamy. "ENCLAVING ATAS TANAH HAK GUNA USAHA SEBAGAI SUMBER TANAH UNTUK PEMBANGUNAN PERUMAHAN BAGI MBR DIKAITKAN DENGAN PENATAAN RUANG." JURNAL ILMIAH LIVING LAW 11, no. 1 (March 18, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.30997/jill.v11i1.1637.

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The purpose of this research is: 1) To know and analyze about enclaving on the cultivation rights title as a land source for low-income people housing development, 2) To know and analyze the role of the regional government in spatial planning organizing on cultivation rights title of the enclave of the land as a land source for low-income people housing development.This research use normative legal research method with qualitative approach. The results of this research is: 1) enclaving on the prolongation or renewal of the cultivation rights title can be used as a land source for the housing development for low-incomwe people, with a terms that its still concerned with the suitability and design on the spatial planning in that area, 2) regional governments as the representatives of the state in the regions authorized in planning, utilizing and controlling spatial in their regions, especially on the regional spatial planning policies, granting licenses, and giving punishment to anyone who violating the regional regulations. enclaving on the cultivation rights title as a land source for low-income people housing development must suitable with the spatial allocation that allows housing / flats to be built.

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Abdullah, Bawa Chafe, and Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz. "State Mass Housing Scheme for the Low-Income Group in Abuja." Open House International 38, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2013-b0010.

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In 2000, Federal Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (MFCT), Abuja launched a mass housing scheme (MHS) under the platform of a public-private partnership (PPP). This paper reports an evaluation of this reform in order to understand the scheme's impact on the cohort of low-income group (LIG) in Abuja, Nigeria. The study explores the multiple data sources available, including literature and policy material and empirical evidence collected through structured and semi-structured questionnaires. The findings of the study suggest that the scheme did not significantly improve the housing status of LIG. The research suggests that the cohorts' history of exclusion in housing delivery in the Abuja deepened further due to partly an inadequate mortgage infrastructure to support their participation. Moreover, with poor scheme implementation, it is clear that the scheme strengthened the polarised position of the Abuja with respect to housing which runs counter to the stated policy objective to provide all Nigerians with decent and affordable housing. The paper concludes by showing the wider implication of the contemporary approach of the housing strategy in Abuja and Nigeria in general.

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Saegert, Susan, and Lymari Benítez. "Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Defining a Niche in the Low-Income Housing Market." Journal of Planning Literature 19, no. 4 (May 2005): 427–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0885412204274169.

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Shalaby, Ahmed M. "Implications from Recent Experience of an Incremental Housing Project in Egypt." Open House International 39, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 78–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2014-b0008.

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The urban population in the developing world will double by the year 2030 increasing the pressure in the housing sector that already suffers from the lack of adequate and affordable housing. Egypt, similar to most countries in the developing world, witnesses a huge deficit in the housing units needed for low-income groups. Since the mid Nineteen Seventies, the Egyptian government adopted and implemented a variety of low-cost housing development strategies including: site and services schemes, core housing projects, partially completed housing units in apartment blocks, and totally finished housing projects. The huge informal housing sector in Egypt has proved the ability of the low-income groups to build for their own-selves. Thus, the incremental housing approach was one of the approaches that were adopted by the Egyptian government to solve the housing problem. Ebny Baitak or “Build Your House” is an incremental housing approach and one of the approaches undertaken by the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development within the National Housing Program to solve the housing problems of low-income groups in Egypt. This paper discusses the recent Egyptian experience in encouraging the participation of low-income groups in the construction process of their own houses through an incremental housing program “Ebny Baitak project”. The paper also derives the implications that could be learned from this experience towards better application in the future.

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Harelimana, Jean Bosco. "Towards Affordable Low Cost Housing: Strategies of Low Cost Housing Development for the Low Income Population in Rwanda." International Journal of Family Business and Management 1, no. 1 (November 30, 2017): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.15226/2577-7815/1/1/00109.

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Ghani, Zubairu Abubakar. "PRIMARY MORTGAGE INSTITUTIONS CHALLENGES FOR FINANCING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 9, no. 2 (February 26, 2021): 127–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v9.i2.2021.3099.

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Housing provision, is a capital intensive, which requires huge financial obligations, the requirement that is tough to meet by many households, thereby leading to ever-increasing housing stock deficit in Nigeria. Over the years, government made some efforts trying to meet up with housing finance demands of the citizens through the creation of mortgage institutions to mobilise and facilitate housing finance, delivery and ownership, especially among the low and medium income groups. Despite all efforts, conditions attached to housing finance, accessibility remained a clog in the wheel of housing provision and ownership to especially low and medium income groups. The purpose of this research is to investigate accessibility of Primary Mortgage Institutions housing finance by potential consumers. The paper explored qualitative research methodology in data collection and analysis using Nvivo tool. It was found, conditions attached to housing finance accessibility remained the primary factor that deprived most of the prospective borrowers. Therefore, accessing housing finance from the Primary Mortgage Institutions remain a key challenge to most low and medium income groups which also hampered housing provision and ownership.

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McClure, Kirk, Anne R. Williamson, Hye-Sung Han, and Brandon Weiss. "The LIHTC Program, Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty, and High-Opportunity Neighborhoods." Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 6, no. 2 (May 2020): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/jpl.v6.i2.1.

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The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”) program remains the na- tion’s largest affordable housing production program. LIHTC units are under-represented in the neighborhoods that both promote movement to high- opportunity neighborhoods and affirmatively further fair housing. State and local officials should play an active role in guiding site selection decisions and ensuring that LIHTC developments are located in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing. Planners can use newly available data discussed herein to identify high-opportunity tracts.

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Nientied, Peter, Sadok Ben Mhenni, and Joop de Wit. "Community Participation in Low-income Housing Policies: Potential or Paradox." Community Development Journal 25, no. 1 (1990): 42–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/25.1.42.

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Denpaiboon, Chaweewan, Kitti Limsakul, and Sarich Chotipanich. "A Low Income Housing Needs and Affordability for Thailand’s Strategic National Plan During 2017-2037." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 15 (December 24, 2018): 119–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj201815119136.

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This paper has developed a model to forecast the housing needs and affordability of the low-income households in Thailand 2018-2037. The model has applied the baseline data from the socioeconomic survey (SES 2015). Considering official population projections by the changing age structure and household formations based on income, forecasts can be made about housing needed by ‘Renters’, who are the target group of the low-income households. Given, heuristic scenarios on households’ income growthover time, an initial planning model for affordable units of housing by types for renters has been proposed. Effective government policy to mobilize social resource for this low-income household is needed. It is shown that in the long-run, as mean income rises with changing income distribution, households can rely more on the private market provision of housing supply. The model can easily be used for Strategic National Planning by changing assumptions and parameters by the National Housing Authority of Thailand. The NHA in partnership with CODI can solidly plan for the role of low-income housing policy with government intervention on interest rates, terms loan and other policy instruments such as tax exemption for the land sharing in the housing and community development. This paper suggests meta-planning of an urban city model study where NHA, CODI will work together in partnership with other government agencies, the private sector, financial institutions, and academics

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Nyakala, Kgashane Stephen, Sekou Dolly Ramoroka, and Kemlall Ramdass. "Factors influencing the quality of low-income housing in Polokwane Municipality South Africa." Acta Structilia 28, no. 2 (November 30, 2021): 23–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150487/as28i2.2.

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Recent South African and international evidence highlights the broad and lasting impacts of households, particularly those on low income, when unable to afford higher income counterparts to live in apartments, maintained public housing, and other high-quality houses. A broad range of low-income houses recently built in South African local municipalities are reportedly defective, due to poor building and construction quality. This study aims to assess and determine the factors influencing high-quality housing positively impacting on the lives of a significant proportion of low-income housing projects. Reasons for and obstacles to quality design, construction quality and the development of low-income housing projects were identified. To assess the research questions, a quantitative survey (n=103) was carried out, simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select contractors who were active in low-income housing projects within the Polokwane Municipality. The quantitative data gathered were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to determine a combination of descriptive and non-parametric statistics of the data computing the frequencies, mean scores and standard deviations. Selected results show that poor-quality and low-income housing projects are perceived to be related to the contractors, builders and construction practitioners not complying with the standards, variously because of insufficient training or accountability to public authorities and end users of low-income houses, i.e., the beneficiaries. The respondents were of the view that house builders and local government authorities could use five factors, namely quality standards, management, involvement of people, process design and process, planning and scheduling to assess non-conformance to quality requirements in low-income housing projects in South Africa. The finding of this study provides a platform for improving the quality of housing design, construction projects, sustainability and an opportunity for local and international design and construction professionals to rethink design in the context of low-income housing projects.

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Le, Van Thuong, Tuan Tran, and Truc Truong. "Towards eco-social housing in Vietnam: challenges and opportunities." MATEC Web of Conferences 193 (2018): 01001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819301001.

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Since Doi Moi (Reform) policy in 1986, Vietnam has experienced rapid urbanization and economic growth. Urbanization has resulted in increasingly high housing demand in the urban areas but this has largely unmet, especially housing for low-income people. Development of social housing for low-income and under-privileged people in cities has been seen as an urgent and important task of the government to pursue stable social and economic development. Low-income people are most vulnerable to environmental impacts and in need of energy-efficient houses to reduce their cost of living. Eco-social housing is seen as a solution to protect the natural environment as well as to boost local economy, improve living conditions particularly for low income people. Through preliminary assessments of three social buildings at three distinct regions of Vietnam, this paper found that despite many challenges, eco-social housing is a solution to Vietnam's needs in providing houses with adequate living conditions to low-income people while protecting the environment and achieving sustainable eco-social development in the long run.

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