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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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Sustainable Affordable Housing: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives

Sustainability
Nowadays, there are many studies with a significant focus on affordable housing. The relevance of this theme, which is usually the central object of public housing policies, requires an updated review of the problems and challenges to be overcome ...
Luiz Paulo P. Silva, Mohammad K. Najjar, B. B. F. da Costa, Mayara Amario, D. Vasco, A. Haddad   +5 more
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Measuring Housing Affordability Using Residual Income Method for Million-plus Cities in India

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2021
Housing affordability is an ever-growing concern in rapidly urbanizing countries like India. The need for affordable housing can hardly be overemphasis in India. Government has many policies and programs running for fulfilling the requirement. But it is
Prabhat Kumar Rao, Arindam Biswas
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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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How affordable is affordable housing? [PDF]

, 2016
At the end of 2015 Flagship Group commissioned the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University to assess the affordability of its housing products. The research was commissioned as it became clear that a number of external changes were likely to affect the context in which Flagship operated as well as the ...
Green, Stephen, Pattison, Ben, Reeve, Kesia, Wilson, Ian   +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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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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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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Strategic use of land policy instruments for affordable housing – Coping with social challenges under scarce land conditions in Swiss cities

, 2020
For decades, many cities have introduced densification policy objectives to stop urban sprawl or to promote efficient use of natural resources. In the urban housing sector, however, densification projects often intensify social challenges.
G. Debrunner, T. Hartmann
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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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