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Deregulation, government failure, and tragedy: The Report of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

open access: yesEconomic Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract The Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, in 2017 has exposed the failures that led to the tragedy in a commendably exhaustive manner. But the explanation of those failures is seriously inadequate. First, they are attributed to deregulation, when the Inquiry itself details the ways in which the cladding of the building was subject ...
David Campbell
wiley   +1 more source

Balconies' visual preferences: The case of residential apartments in Tehran, Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Akbari P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Electoral impact of the rental market: evidence from Israel

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies housing tenure and voting patterns during the period from July 2013 to July 2023 in Israel, where the rental share of housing units increased from 24% to 29%, and six national elections for parliament took place. Using detailed neighbourhood panel data on rental units share and electoral outcomes, I find that switching a ...
Yael Elster
wiley   +1 more source

Can zoning reform reduce housing costs? Evidence from rents in Auckland

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Zoning reform is increasingly advocated to redress unaffordable housing, but few real‐world examples demonstrate its efficacy. However, Auckland recently upzoned approximately three‐quarters of its residential land, precipitating a housing construction boom.
Ryan Greenaway‐McGrevy, Yun So
wiley   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of the bacterial and fungal diversity in habitats of Corsica Island. [PDF]

open access: yesAppl Environ Microbiol
Aghzaf S   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Growing up otherwise: Situated ethics and pathways to non‐violence in Southern Brazil

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper proposes a reframing of how young men become embroiled—or not—in the systemic violence that infuses their daily lives. Most frameworks in health and social policy tend to approach violence as rooted in psycho‐developmental problems and/or social and structural determinants.
Dominique P. Béhague   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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