Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'State housing'
To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: State housing.
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'State housing.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Ingo, Paulina. "Encountering post-settler state dynamics : understanding Namibia’s housing challenges and state housing policy." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70594.
Full textAbstract:
The urbanisation and housing crisis in contemporary Namibia has been the subject of intense
debates in recent years. Much of these debates have focused on the post-independence
government, which has been blamed for inadequate policies and lack of political to provide
adequate houses for its citizens. Many observers saw the housing crisis as yet another
instance of corruption and nepotism within the government and property development
institutions in the country. Such a narrative has come to dominate both public and private
spaces, leading to social agitation and the formation of a social movement – the Affirmative
Reposition (AR), which has positioned itself as people‘ saviour.
This thesis has analysed the urbanisation and housing crisis, and attempts to take the
discussion beyond this simplistic perspective, thus filling a gap in housing debates in the
country by focusing on the bigger picture. It questions the ‗state is to blame‘ narrative for
being reductive – reducing all post-independence development problems to the state. By
questioning the current narrative on the housing crisis, the analysis adopted a broad historical
and political economy approach, and views the housing provision crisis as having both
historical and post-independence roots.
The central aim of the thesis was therefore to offer a counter narrative to the foregoing
narrative on the housing crisis by offering a deeper analysis of both historical and postindependence factors that contributed to the crisis, and to link the crisis to the broader
African development question. This was done through a number of stages: First, through an
analysis of the colonial historical context and its implications for post-independence
development; second, by analysing phenomena after independence that resulted from the fall
of colonialism; and finally, by analysing realities of the people in urban areas. The approach
adopted for the analysis of the housing crisis was therefore grounded on discourses of
Africa‘s development crisis, including those of economic collapse and ‗failed‘ or vampire‘
states.
More specifically, the analysis explored the role played by the colonial history and the crisis
of expectations after independence. The analysis pointed to many factors that contributed to
the housing crisis after Namibia‘s independence, but also argues that apportioning the blame for the crisis to the post-independence government is rather reductive and has resulted in
limited and incomplete understanding of the housing crisis.
The analysis suggests that the country‘s settler period should be a critical starting point to
understanding the post-independence housing crisis. By focusing attention on the postindependence government and placing the blame for the housing crisis directly at its door
steps, it is easy to end up neglecting historical factors and their consequential effects and
manifestations after independence. These are not peculiar to Namibia, but have also been
experienced in other post-colonial states in the region. These were often responsible for the
demands, expectations and challenges that were encountered after independence, which any
explanation that focuses on the government and its failures fail to fully explain.Thesis (PhD)--University Pretoria, 2019.
Anthropology and Archaeology
PhD
Unrestricted
2
McNeill, John. "Decentralisation of state housing : political economy of council housing in inner London." Thesis, University of Essex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277855.
Full text
3
Kunz, Jonathan D. "Forever housing--state support for community based, permanently affordable housing in Connecticut." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68255.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.Title as it appears in the June, 1991 M.I.T. Graduate List: Public support for perpetually affordable housing.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-125).
by Jonathan D. Kunz.
M.C.P.
4
Yung, Buckley Ken. "Housing integration : state efforts at promoting mixed-income and mixed-race housing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14337.
Full text
5
Buracom, Phonlapat. "Limits of state intervention the political economy of housing policies in Thailand /." Google Book Search Library Project, 1987. http://books.google.com/books?id=vVBPAAAAMAAJ.
Full text
6
Hyatt, Jennifer. "Women Chief Housing Officers at State Universities in the Northwest United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955107/.
Full textAbstract:
Hyatt, Jennifer Leigh. Women Chief Housing Officers at State Universities in the Northwest United States. Doctor of Education (Higher Education), December 2016, 89 pp., 1 table, 3 figures, 48 references, titles.
This qualitative study explored the experiences of women chief housing officers (CHOs) at state universities within the northwest region of the United States. The study used narrative inquiry methodology with a thematic analysis approach to investigate how seven female CHOs experience and make meaning of their professional career progression and journey toward becoming and remaining a CHO.
Five core themes emerged from the study: (a) understanding housing operations, (b) self-efficacy, (c) gender inequities, (d) relationships with staff, and (e) mentorship. The theme of gender identity suggests that gender does influence how these female CHOs make meaning of their professional experience. The overall results suggest that although the perception of many is that the field of student affairs is wide open to women, in some senior-level positions, such as CHO, gender inequity is prevalent. A factor that may contribute to this inequity is the privatization of housing which calls for a greater understanding of business and housing operations, areas dominated by males.
An implication from this study is that an increase in the number of women in the CHO position may only occur when university housing personnel expand professional preparation for mid-level housing positions to include more business-related practices. The mid-level position could then be seen as a step toward desired CHO competencies and toward making the position of CHO more inclusive.
7
Barth, Jasper. "The PAP-state : housing, health, and resilient authoritarianism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:551a83bf-f0a6-4a28-b682-e36e4019bc92.
Full textAbstract:
The thesis aims to explain the continued durability of state authoritarianism in Singapore. This durability is usually attributed to citizens acquiescing to Singapore's authoritarian state on account of the prosperity it has delivered. The thesis argues that the contemporary resilience of authoritarianism and undergirding stability of state-citizen relations is better accounted for by two factors. First, the state is apparently able to address evolving policy demands brought forward by citizens. Addressing contemporary 'hot button' issues through policy change produces popular support for the regime and eliminates the basis for serious political challenges. The thesis stresses the increasing role played by the state's provision of social protection and nation-building with respect to regime legitimation. Second, citizens are often able to sidestep authoritarian state practices in everyday life. The thesis argues that this can make authoritarian state practices more bearable for Singaporeans and thus further abates the emergence of pressures for political liberalisation. The thesis analyses economic and social policy to make these arguments while focussing on the public housing and healthcare programmes as central case studies. It also draws on fieldwork data about state interventions, and how these interventions pan out 'on the ground' in Singapore. Beyond the case of Singapore, the thesis speaks to the resilience and re-emergence of state authoritarianism in other countries. The thesis also contributes to state theory and discussions about the reconfiguration of states' economic and social functions in the face of economic globalisation.
8
Pradhan, Rajesh Kumar. "Governments and the housing problem : the case of Bihar State Housing Board in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76864.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
Bibliography: leaves 56-57.
by Rajesh Kumar Pradhan.
M.C.P.
M.S.
9
Weinstein, Marilyn. "An investigation of rental housing conditions in the state of Georgia." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23121.
Full text
10
Stackhouse, Jill. "The state of housing, the business of the state the spatial consequences of housing and urban development policies developed by the entrepreneurial state in Chile (1973--1989 /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407687341&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full text
11
Mitullah, Winnie V. "State policy and urban housing in Kenya : the case of low income housing in Nairobi." Thesis, University of York, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9809/.
Full text
12
Liu, Shu-Chi. "Housing policy reform in Taiwan : a state in transition." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18245/.
Full text
13
Aldrete-Haas, José A. "The decline of the Mexican state? : the case of state housing intervention (1917-1988)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13985.
Full text
14
Marshall, Emily Corinne. "Housing and the Macroeconomy." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_etds/21.
Full textAbstract:
This dissertation studies the impact of several different housing market features on the macroeconomy.
Chapter 1 augments the New-Keynesian model with collateral constraints to incorporate long-term debt in order to examine the interaction between multi-period loans, leverage, and indeterminacy. Allowing firms to borrow heavily against commercial housing by increasing the loan-to-value ratio from 0.01 to 0.90 reduces the level of steady state output approximately 3.19% and decreases social welfare. In contrast, increasing the debt limit of households increases steady state output by 2.72%. Social welfare is maximized under a utilitiarian function when households can borrow at a loan-to-value ratio of about 0.49. An economy with long-term debt also makes stabilization much more difficult for monetary policymakers because determinacy is harder to attain. Instead of only having to satisfy the Taylor Principle (which implies that a more than one-to-one response to inflation), central bankers must either use a strict inflation target or aggressively respond to inflation and the output gap to ensure determinacy.
Chapter 2 examine a New-Keynesian model with housing where default occurs if housing prices are sufficiently low, resulting in a loss of access to credit and housing markets. Default decreases aggregate and patient household consumption, increases impatient household consumption, and amplifies the decline in housing prices due to a misallocation of housing. The effects on consumption often peak immediately before default occurs. Policies that prevent underwater borrowing or raise interest rates along with housing prices are generally desirable because they increase utilitarian social welfare. This paper shows that default is not simply a symptom of economic downturns, but a cause.
Chapter 3 explores the correlation between the home mortgage interest deduction (HMID) and state economic growth. The HMID was introduced to incentivize home purchases by distorting the after-tax price, resulting in an overinvestment in real estate. Previous empirical work has shown that investment in physical capital increases economic growth more so than investment in structures. Theoretically, the anticipated effect of the HMID would be lower subsequent economic growth. However, this paper finds that residential housing is actually beneficial for economic growth.
15
Abrahem, Samah A. "Typology of Urban Housing and Politics in Baghdad: From State-subsidized Housing to Privatized Gated Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522319971145833.
Full text
16
Olusegun, Gabriel K. "Critical examination of facilities management in housing : a study of housing estates in Lagos State, Nigeria." Thesis, University of Bolton, 2015. http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/784/.
Full textAbstract:
Adequate housing provision for the growing population in Lagos State, Nigeria is a major challenge. Addressing this challenge necessitated the involvement of both public and private sectors in the development of housing estates. However, regardless of the nature and ownership status of these housing estates, they need to be properly managed; hence the integration of facilities management (FM) into their management. The research objectives included a critical examination of FM strategies, policies and processes adopted in housing management through data collection and elucidation. In conducting this research, qualitative grounded theory (GT) and case study methodologies were adopted. This was done in order to understand, and thereby gain knowledge of the practice of FM in housing. Consequently, interview was conducted with 26 Facilities Managers and 971 residents in 20 different housing estates. The emergent facts from the analysed data revealed that the organisation structure of FM department and their roles depend on the nature of the housing estate concerned, and their purpose. Furthermore, FM is of immense benefit to the housing estates where it is practiced, as it had positively impacted on their general condition and goodwill. Some of the challenges besetting the practice of FM in housing cut across the strategic, tactical and operational aspects. The most pressing ones were financial constraints, residents‘ behaviour; and some of the Facilities Managers‘ lacked the requisite academic and professional qualifications. Some of the recommendations included the need to adequately train and properly empower the Facilities Managers and their teams to ensure FM effectiveness; the adoption of residents-led FM approach; and the need for comprehensive improvement on the existing housing environment especially in housing estates with aging infrastructures.
17
Hollow, Matthew. "Housing needs : power, subjectivity and public housing in England, 1920-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e2e2766-9360-4fb6-bf9e-39386b18e7fd.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis addresses two key questions: First, how did those involved in the provision of public housing in twentieth-century England conceptualise the people who they were providing houses for? Second, how did their ideas change over time? These questions are important and need answering because, although there has been a great deal written about the history of public housing in England, there has up until now been very little thought given to the manner in which the council estate tenants themselves were actually identified and conceptualised as subjects in need of state-funded housing. My thesis begins to redress this imbalance by providing an overview of the changing forms and practices through which prospective tenants were conceptualised and acted upon by those in positions of power in England between 1920 and 1970. Using records from local authority archives, sociological surveys, architectural and town planning journals, central government publications, Mass Observation reports and tenant handbooks, and focusing primarily on council estates in London, Manchester and Sheffield, it shows how ideas about what prospective tenants needed from their homes changed dramatically over the course of this period, with the narrowly sanitary and biopolitical approaches of the 1920s and 1930s increasingly being challenged and complemented by a host of new ideas and discourses which placed far more emphasis upon the prospective tenant’s emotional, social and personal needs. As such, this thesis not only adds substantially to our understanding of the changes that took place in the English public housing sector between 1920 and 1970, but also adds to the burgeoning literature on questions of governmentality; contributing in the process to our understandings of modern modes of power.
18
Mooney, Gerard Charles. "Living on the periphery : housing, industrial change and the state." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281936.
Full text
19
Millward, Alison J. "Affordable downtown housing : innovative U.S. municipal initiatives and a case study of Seattle." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29996.
Full textAbstract:
The past decade has witnessed both steep reductions in federal housing assistance and an intensification of local housing problems including homelessness. In light of these trends, this study explores alternative means available to municipalities of meeting the housing needs of low-income households.
The methods chosen to accomplish this were two-fold: a literature review and a case study. The literature review revealed that in response to the Reagan administration's 1981 cutbacks to housing programs a new low-income housing delivery system, based largely on public-private partnerships, has emerged from the grass roots level in communities across the United States. In the new production system efforts have focused on preservation rather than new construction, and large for-profit developers have been replaced by nonprofit community-based development corporations and local public agencies. With the assurance of federal subsidies gone, local governments and nonprofit developers have sought to increase the effectiveness of current resources, direct more general revenue to housing activities and have raised new resources. Today, financing packages for low-income projects are usually built upon customized and creative financial packages that are difficult to replicate, and as a result, no definitive solutions have yet been found.
Despite the hard work and creativity that has gone into developing low-income housing in the U.S. over the past decade local programs have been able to meet only a fraction of the country's housing needs.
The case study method was chosen to focus on the City of Seattle, Washington's specific housing initiatives. The City's response has closely followed the national experience. A new delivery system has emerged which depends largely on the efforts of the City's municipal government, through its Department of Community Development, and the community's growing nonprofit sector. As a
matter of policy Seattle has chosen to spend most of its low-income housing dollars on preserving the downtown's remaining 7,311 low-income units. The City does not. build housing itself, but instead, acts as a "bank" loaning money generated, for the most part, by off-budget strategies to nonprofit housing developers to rehabilitate existing low-income units to meet housing code standards.
Seattle's housing programs have had mixed results. Despite their efforts, due to downtown's expansion, the City has continued to lose low-income units in the downtown to demolition and rent increases, no gain has been made on the City's overall housing need, and while the City has replaced the lost federal subsidies, it has not created significant ongoing revenue streams for future housing development.
Results of this study indicate that, only the long term commitment of federal funds to a national housing strategy can stem the growing tide of homelessness across the U.S. and avert, a deepening of the country's housing crisis.Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Graduate
20
Aulakh, Sundeep. "The concept and practice of 'enabling' local housing authorities." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2002. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19296/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines the changing role of housing authorities within the wider context of the restructuring of the British welfare state. Between the years 1979 and 1997, four successive Conservative administrations attempted to eliminate the municipal ownership and management of the social housing sector. Central to this restructuring was the notion of 'enabling' and this crystallised the Conservatives' vision for the future role of housing authorities as non-providers. Instead, local authorities were expected to facilitate housing provision through the private or voluntary sectors. At the time this research began, it was clear that, whilst the magnitude of this reorientation of local government's traditional role generated significant discussion at the conceptual level, there remained a paucity of empirical research examining the actual practice of enabling at the local level. The research on which this thesis draws, therefore, helps to address the imbalance between the theorisation of enabling and detailed empirical work. It explores the way in which housing authorities have responded to the enabling challenge and the resultant implications this has for the delivery of housing services. In the UK, the conceptual discussion of enabling was most clearly articulated in the enabling typology developed by Leach et al. (1992) and this formed the theoretical underpinnings of the present study. A two-part research strategy was adopted in which, first, a postal survey was administered to 100 housing authorities. This provided a scientific sampling framework from which three case-study housing authorities were selected for the second part of the data collection. Here, qualitative interviews were undertaken with senior policy-makers from the housing departments and their housing association and voluntary sector 'partners'. There was variation between the three case-study authorities in their transition to the enabling role and, in this context, the prominent research findings are as follows. The analysis of the data gathered from the first case-study authority highlights the way in which resistance to change and institutional inertia prevented the housing department from shifting to the enabling role. Hence, it continued to operate according to the traditional role. In the other two case-study authorities, the research findings show: (a) the variation between central and local government in their interpretation of enabling, particularly in the context of the compulsory competitive tendering of housing management functions; (b) the shift towards partnership working and the way in which the housing authorities retained a dominant role amongst the plethora of agencies that are now involved in policy formation and service delivery; (c) the decline in direct provision was precipitating the 'reinvention' of new roles centred around 'community governance'; (d) the implications that all these developments had in relation to the internal organisational structure and management processes of the two authorities. In examining the practice of enabling housing authorities, this thesis contributes to an understanding of the way in which the wider role and function of local government has been restructured from its position under the post-war consensus.
21
McCormack, P. "State housing policy and administration: planning or crisis response : An analysis of housing investment programme underspending in Wales." Thesis, Bucks New University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355920.
Full text
22
Darkwa, Irene. "Post-occupancy evaluation of state-subsidised housing units in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1642.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (MSc (Consumer Science)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.The South African government drafted a national housing policy in 1994. This policy is being implemented in terms of seven strategies. One of the housing strategies is to provide subsidy assistance to low-income groups to enable them to become home owners and improve their quality of life. The delivery of state-subsidised housing will help to reduce the housing backlog and to reach the goal of eradicating informal settlements by 2014. The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of housing satisfaction of residents in state-subsidised housing units.
23
Stubbs, Cherrie. "The state of tenure : Extending owner occupation on Wearside." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5876/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis considers the changing social relations of tenure in Britain as state interventions increasingly sponsor home ownership as the norm for working-class family households. These intervention are highlighted through four case studies of low-cost ownership on Nearside, illustrating different facets of the extension of ownership. The early chapters discuss orthodox Marxist, Weberian and Feminist accounts of tenure, and indicate that the material and ideological realities associated with different tenure forms need to be placed in an historical context. Further, it is suggested that changes in tenure relations can best be understood by employing the idea of a housing cohort. This enables the analyst to explore tenure in the context of households' relationships to changing local housing and labour markets. It highlights the materiality of space and time in constraining tenure experience. The empirical chapters that follow explore working-class housing in Sunderland within this framework. After an historical account of the linkages between housing markets and labour markets in the area, two locales are examined in detail to reveal the changing patterns of tenure in the private sector in the early part of the twentieth century. This examination highlights the mutability of tenure forms within the private sector. The following four chapters report on survey work undertaken in order to explore the changing meanings of tenure as the drive to recommodification extended ownership to new kinds of households. The experience of different kinds of ownership (outright ownership, mortgage holding, equity sharing) in four different locales (ex-council estates, older terrace housing, new- build inner city locations, and a suburban new build scheme) enables comparisons to be made between the variable impacts of different kinds of marginal ownership on Wearside. The emerging contradictions in each of the four locales are outlined, and the interconnected nature of council tenancy and ownership stressed. Finally, an attempt is made to explore further the usefulness of a cohort analysis in understanding the restructuring of tenure relations.
24
Burgess, Rodney Durrant. "The state and self-help building in Pereira, Colombia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295170.
Full text
25
Kusevski, Dragan. "(Un)exceptional Measures Against a Housing Crisis - A Study of Temporary Housing in Sweden." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23121.
Full textAbstract:
The lack of affordable housing has been a long-standing problem for many cities in Sweden, and the recent refugee crisis has only highlighted the difficulties for economically weaker constituencies to enter and sustain in the existing housing market. The pressing situation and a new law, obligating the municipalities to supply housing, forced the authorities to look for solutions. The thesis investigates the recent changes and use of one of these offered solutions – temporary housing permits. Using a qualitative approach, it tries to capture both the formative-discursive processes and the material outcomes of this measure, in order to understand what informs the decision and its possible implications. The study employs theoretical concepts from Giorgio Agamben’s theory on the ‘state of exception’, as I consider them important for the understanding of the processes. The interventions in the housing system are made possible only by declaring that the shortage of housing is in an ‘exceptional situation’, one that can only be resolved with irregular practices, exceptions from standard norm and regular procedures. A look into the legal-formative mechanisms and the materialization of the temporary housing permits is given. The thesis argues that a wider perspective is needed and tries to bring into the discussion the political and social aspects of using a measure like this one. Although conceptualized as a quick and temporary remedy, it is maintained that the utilization of temporary housing permits can potentially have harmful long-lasting effects on the understanding of housing provision, living standards, and planning processes. This suggests that authorities have to be careful when using exceptional measures and calls for a fundamental and systemic re-thinking of housing in general.
26
Sharp, Roma. "A history of public housing in Western Australia: The workers' homes board and state housing commission: Precursors of Homeswest." Thesis, Sharp, Roma (1993) A history of public housing in Western Australia: The workers' homes board and state housing commission: Precursors of Homeswest. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 1993. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41517/.
Full textAbstract:
Public housing in Australia and elsewhere has been, until recently, a neglected area of historical research. The social importance of housing is undeniable and, as such, a history of public housing in Western Australia is well overdue.
This history of public housing in Western Australia is essentially an examination of two organisations: the Workers' Homes Board, established in 1912, and its post-World War II successor, the State Housing Commisson, since 1985 trading as Homeswest. The thesis is not so much an institutional history as an account of the key factors which shaped the nature of public housing in this State: demand for workforce housing by industry; demand for housing from people with low incomes; and the need for the state to encourage population and economic growth. Material factors, particularly in the immediate post-World War II period, have also impacted on the provision of public housing, as has the physical size and climatic variation of the State.
This thesis provides evidence of the use of public housing as an instrument for social control in Western Australia, which is associated with the notion of housing as a reward, rather than a right. However, evidence is also provided to demonstrate that the policies and activities of both the Workers' Homes Board and the State Housing Commission were shaped by the agency of their clients, as well as by community values and opinions.
The state's role in the provision of public housing m Western Australia has been found to have been largely positive. It has contributed to economic growth and resource development, provided infrastructure to attract industry, attracted migrants in the post war period with the promise of housing, and collaborated with other governments to decentralise a Perth-based bureaucracy. Most significantly, it has provided affordable housing for the State's low income earners and their families.
27
Al, arayedh Shaima Ghazi. "The mass housing dilemma an industrial design process in architecture /." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-07072006-001940.
Full text
28
Campelo, de Melo M. A. B. "The State, the housing question and policy formation in Brazil, 1937-1975." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375852.
Full text
29
Augustsson, Ida. "The rise of a Social Democratic Welfare State: a question about housing." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23675.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines how the right to housing has arisen in Sweden and how it hasbeen articulated and expressed during the 20th and 21st century. Moreover, itinvestigates the shift and continuations within Swedish housing policies alongsidereviewing outcomes following the happenings with a focus on homelessness. This hasbeen done through a document analysis using a historical method providing means tounderstand the changes that have occurred over time. The material has been analyzedEsping-Andersen's stratification theory and Bengtsson's Universal and Selectiveapproach to housing as a social right. Throughout the analysis, it is concluded that theright housing has until the late 20 th century been expressed as a group held necessitydependent on a regulated housing market with state interference. Although, since the1990’s the right has rather been expressed as an individual responsibility to operateand function within the market. Furthermore, it is presented that the liberal shift inSwedish politics in 1991, has resulted in an unstable housing market and increasednumbers of homelessness.
30
Charlton, Sarah. "State ambitions and peoples' practices : an exploration of RDP housing in Johannesburg." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7412/.
Full textAbstract:
South Africa’s RDP housing programme has delivered ownership of a house and serviced land to millions of first time home-owners since 1994. Intended to both provide shelter and address poverty, the housing programme is typical of improvement initiatives of the modern state aimed at advancing the physical, economic or social situation of a target population. Yet little is known about the results of the South African housing programme for recipient households, except that some beneficiaries attract state censure for interacting with their houses in unexpected and unwelcome ways. Despite the lack of clarity on its effects, the large-scale costly housing programme continues to be implemented. This study investigates the programme’s outcomes in Johannesburg through the perspectives of both RDP beneficiaries and state housing practitioners. Findings transcend the denigration of RDP housing as ‘poorly located’, revealing people’s complex interactions with their housing which show its flaws and limitations but also their attachment to it. To minimise the shortcomings of the housing benefit RDP settlements are appropriated, adapted and transformed, households composition may be re-configured and alternative accommodation off-site brought into play. In general the state has limited insight into this intricacy, little institutional appetite to explore it and holds contradictory positions on the outcomes of the programme. Despite the evident resources and power of the state, it is confounded by the complexity of people’s practices. More broadly, the study contributes to housing and planning literature through its focus on the interface between state and beneficiary practices. Peoples’ responses to RDP housing emphasise both the state’s limited capacity in addressing the housing need, but also the catalytic value and potential its intervention triggers. Rather than portraying the state and the subaltern as clashing over conflicting rationalities, it illuminates their overlapping aspirations and mutual shaping of space.
31
Monro, Dugald. "The results of federalism an examination of housing and disability services /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/493.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2002.Title from title screen (viewed 15 April 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, School of Economics and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Business. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
32
Sites, Danette W. "Off-campus rental housing of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50094.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors which influence the off-campus rental housing choices of students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. An interview schedule was developed and administered by telephone to a random sample of 204 Virginia Tech students who were renting off-campus housing in Blacksburg, Virginia. The data were examined by analysis of means, frequencies, correlations, and t-tests.
The findings revealed significant differences (p<.01) between students who lived in traditional rental apartments and students who lived in student condominiums in preferences for amenities, lease options, and maintenance. No difference in satisfaction levels was found to exist between the groups.
All students in the sample showed preferences for a large number of amenities, most of which were provided by the Blacksburg rental market. Cost was identified as the greatest influence on housing choice for the entire sample, while noise and inadequate parking were the major dissatisfactions.Master of Science
incomplete_metadata
33
Dominus, David A. "The development of the Sabah's State Housing Commission (SSHC) and its evaluation of success in providing low cost housing in Sabah." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902492.
Full textAbstract:
One of the new Malaysia's thirteen states, Sabah, gained its independence through Malaysia on 16th September 1963. The new state with a relatively new government was first faced with the enormous task of planning the state development. One of the Government's immediate concern and priority was to ensure the provision of proper and sufficient housing for the local people. Under this priority, the Sabah State Assembly passed the Housing Commission Enactment in 1967 which later became known as the Sabah State Housing Commission (SSHC), and then, the Housing and Town Development Authority (HATDA).The SSHC was created by the Local Government to execute primarily the task of constructing low cost housing. This is due to the fact that houses constructed during Sabah's recovery from the aftermath of Second World War were mainly of medium cost types. There was no effort by the Colonial Government to provide low cost houses for the low income population.Kota Kinabalu, a relatively new town is the capital city of Sabah. Most of the SSHC activities were executed here. The city rapid development as evidenced by many high rise buildings offers job opportunity and social facility as well as amenity, and thus has become a major attraction to both the local people from smaller towns, and illegal immigrants from the nearby South East Asian countries.The creation and completion of this project has made clear HATDA's evaluation of success in providing the low cost housing for the low and middle incomes people in Sabah. In addition to its evaluation of success, many other issues relevant to low cost housing development has been explored. Those issues were HATDA's future strategies to deal with the fast growing local population and demand for the low cost housing units, recommendations to control illegal immigrants from the nearby Asian countries, ways to improve local political issues that affects future HATDA's goal and plan, and create a better relationship with the Federal Government that could ease the funding problem of the low cost housing in the future.Department of Urban Planning
34
Melliship, Kaye Staniforth. "The contribution of theories of the state in analyzing local government housing initiatives : the city of Vancouver’s housing actions, 1900-1973." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25469.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis uses theories of the state in order to explain the City of Vancouver's housing actions from 1900-1973. Theories of the state are used to identify and contribute to an understanding of the constraints and opportunities a municipality faces in intervening in housing.
The theoretical discussion, developed by a literature review, is in three major parts. First, the role of the state in capitalist society is discussed. The neo-Marxist perspective of the role of the state is adopted. According to this perspective the state has a two fold role. First the state functions to aid in capital accumulation. Second, the state functions to legitimate the capitalist system. The second part of the discussion rests on theoretical distinctions on the ways in which the state fulfills its role. Pluralist, instrumentalist and corporatist/managerialist perspectives are analyzed and it is concluded that at different times and circumstances it is possible that all three might apply to the way a state acts. The third part of the theoretical discussion is on the local state. The local state is not separate from the state, though it does have some autonomy. In the areas where the local state does have some autonomy the way it acts can be explained by the three differing theoretical perspectives. The history of the City of Vancouver's role in housing is presented by describing policies, programs and plans undertaken by the City from 1900 to 1973. This research was accomplished primarily by reading original government records in the Vancouver City Archives. With respect to housing initiatives, the City was constrained by its financial and jurisdictional ties to the national state. However, this thesis shows that at times the City was able to define its own terms and conditions and exhibit some autonomy.
The details of the housing history also show that the City of Vancouver's role was in capital accumulation and the legitimation of capitalism. For most of the period studied the City of Vancouver was the instrument of the capitalist class. However, this neo-Marxist interpretation is tempered by evidence that both the corporate goals of the City itself and the pressure exerted by local interest groups have had a significant impact on the City of Vancouver's housing actions. This is explained by the nature of housing as a consumption item, as well as by the need to account for human elements in state actions. The fact that the local state is necessary for democratic legitimation and that housing can be made important to critical production issues presents opportunities at the local government level for housing reforms.Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Graduate
35
White, Richard Michael. "An urban housing project." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53162.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis focuses on a few of the different possibilities for an infill housing project. The site is located in Queens, New York, adjacent to the East River. The site is an old railroad yard. The surrounding neighborhood is a mixture of commercial and residential areas. The linear axis of the site offers the possibility for a strong horizontal object for the city.Master of Architecture
36
Hudson, William. "Welfarism anew? : territorial politics and inter-war state housing in three Lancashire towns." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288205.
Full text
37
Prudent-Phillip, Marie Patricia. "Low-income housing, the environment and the state : the case of St. Lucia." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325235.
Full textAbstract:
The convening of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 represented a major milestone in the global debate on environment and development. This thesis, however, is not concerned about the broad views and perspectives advanced by developed and developing countries. Rather, the focus is at a much more micro level. The thesis examines the relationship between the environment and one aspect of development, namely, housing. The discussion centres on environmental conditions in low-income communities in a developing country: St. Lucia. This is really the reality of the debate within the boundaries of Small-Island Developing States (SIOS). As Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia states " ... peasants are likely to be far less concerned about holes in the ozone layer than about holes in their rooft" (in Main, 1994:3). It is within this context that the thesis is set. Brown agenda issues are becoming increasingly more evident in the cities of the developing world. In St. Lucia this is most visible in low-income housing communities. This thesis examines the underlying reasons for the neglect of low-income community environments and assesses whether there is a direct correlation between the level of government intervention in the establishment of these communities and the state of their household and neighbourhood environments. It also provides a comprehensive understanding of the operations of the formal and informal housing sectors in respect of low-income housing. The thesis argues that the State has failed in its attempts to provide lowincome housing and that low-income households have taken the provision of their shelter needs literally into their own hands. However, construction within the informal sector has resulted in serious environmental degradation. While households themselves are making some effort to address their environmental conditions, their actions tend to be reactive and ad-hoc, with little improvements being realized. These households have however acknowledged that they are unable by themselves to ameliorate their environmental conditions to any significant extent. They emphasize that the State must playa facilitating role in the process. This thesis is therefore concerned about the ways in which these stakeholders can work together to ensure the delivery of low-income housing within an environmentally sustainable framework. The argument put forward is that this can be achieved through an aided self-help approach, which will signal a new orientation towards the provision of low-income housing in St. Lucia and implicitly, a new environmental agenda for low-income communities.
38
Fraser, Murray. "John Bull's other homes : state housing and British policy in Ireland, 1883-1922 /." Liverpool (GB) : Liverpool university press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38943605z.
Full text
39
Hensman, Ravi Jonathan Mostyn. "Fantasies of state power? : French banlieues and the boundaries of modernity, 1955-1973." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/fantasies-of-state-power-french-banlieues-and-the-boundaries-of-modernity-19551973(fa908368-8e09-4c06-9741-df1eb4671f28).html.
Full textAbstract:
The banlieues (suburbs) of Paris are key case study for the social and political evolution of post-war France. Drawing on the overarching narrative of the trente glorieuses, existing scholarship has viewed the construction of grands ensembles d’habitation (mass housing estates) as part of a harmonious modernisation project through which France moved away from governing its colonies and towards the governance of everyday life. Yet, this view of banlieue housing as an expression of generic, totalising state power overlooks the conflicts and uncertainties that underpinned the modernisation process. This thesis analyses the construction and governance of two grands ensembles: the 4000 logements in La Courneuve and Les Courtillières in Pantin during the period 1955-1973. By analysing how state actors constructed and debated notions of urban modernity, this thesis will use the grands ensembles to explore France’s post-war modernisation as an uneven, localised and limited process. In discussing the limits to state power in these areas, this thesis develops scholarship on the banlieues and post-war France in three key ways. Firstly, this thesis will interrogate the relationship between the grand ensemble and notions of modernity, and will challenge the notion of mass housing as part of a forward-thinking modernisation process. Close analysis of sociological studies of mass housing and planning discourse will be used to demonstrate that the key objective was not to modernise, but to create a benign governable space that glossed over the more complex reality. By looking at localised discourses of municipal council and housing associations, this thesis will also question the harmonious nature of modernisation in discussing the ongoing debates between different state actors regarding the role of mass housing and of the banlieues more generally. Secondly, this thesis will develop academic understandings of the relationship between the citizen and the state. While the banlieues have been situated within the orbit of a totalising, technocratic Gaullist national state and the local communist-governed municipality, this thesis will question whether the state ‘existed’ in the banlieues. Records of municipal campaigning and existing resident testimonies will be used to challenge the historical narrative of the ceinture rouge by demonstrating that at a local level, the state maintained only loose control in the governance of everyday life and focused on a narrow range of issues. Developing this notion of a flexible, arterial state, this thesis will also analyse estate plans closely in order to highlight that interior space rather than enacting new forms of social conditioning was uneven in nature and made considerable concessions to existing modes of living. Thirdly, this thesis will develop existing notions of power and authority by arguing that while French post-war modernisation has generally been viewed as a technocratic process, it relied on direct coercion to compensate for its inherent limitations. While scholars have viewed the grands ensembles as a short-lived triumph of ‘the liberal art of government’, this thesis will argue that technocratic governance of the banlieues was ‘propped up’ by a dramatic expansion of policing and surveillance of these areas. This thesis will analyse police records of racial and geographical profiling and the suppression of protest in order to argue that policing produced a more systematic form of banlieue governance compared to uneven, limited technocratic power. Overall this thesis will use the grand ensemble to present an alternative view of the trente glorieuses in which the French state projecting authority into areas where the state lacked knowledge or influence, and sought to protect itself from modernity rather than to enact it.
40
Al-Shatti, Salem Abdullah. "Assessment of the phenomena of physical alterations performed on limited and average income government subsidized houses under the ownership program in the state of Kuwait." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23476.
Full text
41
Wu, Yiu-chung. "A feasibility study for adopting a corporatist perspective for housing policy formulation in Hong Kong." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1300959X.
Full text
42
Savage, Joe N. "Tax credit allocations and the development of affordable housing an examination of the low-income housing tax credit program in the state of Delaware /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 152 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1892027561&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full text
43
McLaughlin, Jeffrey Brian. "The "bonus" of affordable housing analyzing the effects of local political and economic forces on the implementation of the State of California's Housing Density Bonus Law /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1871874361&sid=1&Fmt=7&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full text
44
van, Raat Anthony Christian Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment UNSW. "State housing at Orakei and the model suburb experiment in New Zealand 1900-1940." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Built Environment, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31905.
Full textAbstract:
The colonization of New Zealand led to the development of particular patterns of settlement. In some cases models were derived from contemporary British practice; in other cases they came from new world settlements elsewhere. But almost invariably any theoretical propositions which might have either consciously or unconsciously underpinned the form of the settlements and their ideological or other purposes were displaced by the pragmatic beliefs and constraints of those who developed them. These settlements arose at the same time as the belief that New Zealand was a natural paradise and that it offered the opportunity for the establishment of some kind of new and perhaps even utopian model for settlement. The Auckland suburb of Orakei as it developed in the first decades of the twentieth century provides fertile ground for the exploration of a number of themes which illuminate the New Zealand suburban experience: the role of the state in regulating and providing housing; the development of the discipline of planning; the evolution of the garden suburb in New Zealand; the choice of an architectural style for state housing; the integration of planning and housing; the contest for physical and ideological control of development; and the decisive role of individuals in creating the suburb. This thesis describes the political, social and ideological environments which led to the construction of the suburb of Orakei and the form which it took.
45
Fruet, Genoveva Maya. "Paths to state/society synergy? : the experience of housing cooperatives in Porto Alegre, Brazil /." Roskilde : Roskilde University, Graduate School of International Development Studies, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1800/476.
Full text
46
Pigott, Marilyn Jean Dreyer. "Housing for Black workers in South Africa : a study of state intervention after 1945." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28697/.
Full textAbstract:
The legislative and administrative framework, established by the nationalist government after 1948, provided the basis for the large-scale construction of racially segregated townships for African workers throughout South Africa. Direct state intervention in the production of housing partially resolved the housing shortage which had existed since before the Second World War. The thesis seeks to explain why state intervention in the sphere of housing assumed this particular form and how township policies were actually implemented. It also seeks to understand the role of these spatial forms within the social formation It is, therefore, an analysis of policy formulation and implementation within the context of political, economic and ideological relations and conditions existing in South Africa over the period 1945 to 1965. The thesis argues that the origins of townships policies, which were legitimised by the ideology of 'apartheid', are to be traced, on the one hand, in the relations within the state - between central and local authorities around the question of housing subsidy, for example - and, on the other hand, in the relations between other organisations with interests in housing, such as building employers and trade unions around conditions of housing production. The study utilises a wide range of primary source material - in particular, a collection of unpublished memoranda, minutes and correspondence of a board created by the state, the operations of which were central to the implementation of the township policies from the mid-1950s, which is not yet available for public inspection.
47
Abdullah, Abdul Mutalip. "State housing provision in Sarawak : an examination of accessibility, habitability, sustainability and affordability : the case of the Sarawak Housing and Development Commission, Malaysia." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/364.
Full textAbstract:
It has been widely shown that the provider-based approach to the urban low cost housing problem in the developing world has ended in failure. It has not only failed to meet the demand for such houses but the costs of producing them are so enormous that they are hard to sustain. Worse, the beneficiaries of these houses do not even meet the affordability levels required even at their subsidised selling prices. Many causes have been suggested and recommendations proffered. Yet the urban housing problem remains as acute as ever while the approach is still actively pursued by some developing countries. This research aims to examine the performance of provider-based housing policy in the context of the accessibility of the target group to the houses, the habitability of these houses in terms of their standards and quality, the sustainability of the project(s) under study, and the affordability of the households which have succeeded in getting these houses. It uses three project areas constructed by the Sarawak Housing and Development Commission (SHDC), East Malaysia, as case studies. This study stands on the premise that it is not so much the approach which is at fault but the operational environment within which it operates; namely, the political, economic and social (even cultural) context. Any approach may not succeed if it fails to take cognisance of ihe peculiarities and distinctiveness of this contextual stage. The basis of the analysis is based on two types of data. The first is mortgage data which contains all the socio-economic information (as well as loan portfolios) of the beneficiaries who have taken loans from the SHDC. This information was collected when the beneficiaries first applied for the houses, and combined with a household survey of the same beneficiaries to provide a comprehensive set of data used for the analysis. The findings of the research support the conclusions of many similar studies; that the main causes of the poor performance lies mainly on the supply side of the housing market, most of which can easily be solved; thus confirming the premise that the success or failure of any approach depends heavily on the rules within which it has to operate.
48
Rahman, Tariq. "Enabling Development: A Housing Scheme in Rural Pakistan." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20410.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis explores the development of a housing scheme in rural Pakistan. In the so-called ‘backward’ district of Bhakkar, five entrepreneurs formed a partnership in 2004 to build the area’s first privately developed housing scheme. As housing schemes are associated with development in Pakistan, they saw themselves as providing services that the state was expected, but failed, to deliver.
Departing from normative conceptions of the state, this case study demonstrates how state power functions in Pakistan. Though it is an entrepreneurial venture, the construction of the housing scheme is structured by a discourse of national development. Further, the project was made possible through the state’s integration of Bhakkar into global economic circuits. I argue that the Pakistani state’s power in this instance does not obtain from its felt presence in Bhakkar but rather from its assurance of access to various physical and digital networks through which it is reconfigured.
49
Lor, Hing-hung Louis, and 羅慶鴻. "Rethinking the Hong Kong government housing policy: an illusion of a positive non-interventionist state." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45012477.
Full text
50
Smith, Susan Monroe. "An analysis of the New York tenement house." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22955.
Full text