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Sea level rise and coastal flooding threaten affordable housing

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
The frequency of coastal floods around the United States has risen sharply over the last few decades, and rising seas point to further future acceleration.
Maya K Buchanan, Scott Kulp, Lara Cushing, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Todd Nedwick, Benjamin Strauss   +5 more
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Exploring inhibiting factors to affordable housing provision in Lagos metropolitan city, Nigeria

Frontiers in Built Environment
Different inhibiting factors have affected the need for affordable housing provisions to keep pace with the increase in urbanisation and population growth, leading to the non-availability of desirable, affordable housing goals for low-income earners ...
Kunle Elizah Ogundipe, James Dele Owolabi, James Dele Owolabi, Babatunde Fatai Ogunbayo, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa   +4 more
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Rethinking Affordable Housing Delivery: An Analytical Insight

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
Malaysia currently has a housing shortage of 12 million units. Towards the year 2020, this would require an annual supply of a minimum of 2 million homes. With the current production rate, the deficits will remain over the next 100 years. The crisis will
Olanrewaju Abdullateef, Yeow Seong, Lim Lee   +2 more
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Systematic analysis of affordable housing development and pricing structure in Shenzhen, China

International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2015
As a result of urban housing reform in China, it has become increasingly difficult for low and middle income families to purchase a house. In response to the growing demand for affordable housing, the Chinese Government has developed a specific housing ...
Chun Pong Sing, Peter E. D. Love, Wing Hong Fung, Yun Zi He   +3 more
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Can Cities Attract Affordable Housing for Economic Development? The Roles of Growth Management Policies and Urban Political Institutions

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2018
While economic development and affordable housing are two important goals for city governments, pursuing both values is challenging due to their conflicting policy nature that is not easily harmonized.
Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, Sung-Wook Kwon, Daehee Bak, Sang-Chul Park   +3 more
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How do local governments respond to central mandate in affordable housing policy? A qualitative comparative analysis of forty-one Chinese cities

Journal of Urban Management
Countries in developed and developing worlds have faced growing challenges to solve affordable housing shortages for lower-income households, prompting the adoption of various types of mandates to compel local implementation of affordable housing policy.
Luyao Ma, Zhilin Liu
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Investigating Commuting Time Patterns of Residents Living in Affordable Housing: A Case Study in Nanjing, China

Promet (Zagreb), 2019
The phenomenon of affordable housing emerges in Chinese cities to meet low-income residents’ living needs in the city. Because affordable housing projects tend to be located far away from the city centre, their residents tend to face long commuting times
Jingxian Wu, Min Yang, Soora Rasouli, Long Cheng   +3 more
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The Coupling Coordination Evaluation of Sustainable Development between Urbanization, Housing Prices, and Affordable Housing in China

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021
For the past few years, China’s urbanization process has been in a state of rapid and variable development. With many migrants flowing from rural to urban area, the change in the urban structure and the trend of the economic development has led to a ...
Lida Wang, Xian Rong, Lingling Mu
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A Critical Success Factor Framework for Implementing Sustainable Innovative and Affordable Housing: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Buildings, 2021
The actualization of affordable housing remains a challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by the increasing societal demand for the incorporation of sustainability principles into such housing types to improve levels of occupant health and well-being ...
Alireza Moghayedi, Bankole Awuzie, Temitope Omotayo, Karen Le Jeune, Mark Massyn, Christiana Okobi Ekpo, Manfred Braune, Paimaan Byron   +7 more
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Learning from Seoul: Public Rental Housing Development in South Korea and Its Implications for China’s Affordable Housing System Toward “Better Housing”

Buildings
In the context of China’s vigorous promotion of “better housing” construction, transforming affordable housing into “better housing” has become an important practical task. Since the 1960s, when the public housing system was standardized, South Korea has
Xue-Rui Wang, Li-Ping Yang, Hong-Xia Yang, Byung-Kweon Jun   +3 more
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