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The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2003: An Assessment of Progress on Housing in the Greater Boston Area [PDF]

, 2004
Presents an annual survey of the state of housing in Greater Boston: market conditions; housing production; rents, home prices, and affordability; and public spending and support.
Barry Bluestone, Bonnie Heudorfer
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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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Possible effects of new Swedish ventilation regulations for residential buildings [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
In March 2023, the Swedish national Board of Housing, Building and Planning (Boverket) published a proposal for new ventilation rates in Sweden. The supply air should by this be calculated based on an equation using the heated floor area as the main ...
Berggren Björn, Janson Ulla
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Town planning and public housing [PDF]

During the last seven years, Spain has experience importans legislativies changes in land and housing materia. The land law of 1990, conceive the urbanistic proficience as colectivity result and the cession of part of this proficience to the land owner ...
Miguel Angel Arteaga Castro
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Economic Consequences of Public Pension Accounting Regulation Changes: Evidence from Housing Markets and Local Economies

, 2023
Grace Fan
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Association by Age Groups Between Retrofitting Home Heating and Insulation and Subsequent Hospitalised Home Fall Rates: A Natural Experiment

Safety
Insulating homes has been shown to provide health benefits, but benefits for home safety have not been studied. The current study analyses hospitalised falls rates, making use of a large New Zealand cohort initially set up to study health benefits.
Michael D. Keall, Caroline Fyfe, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Nevil Pierse   +3 more
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Lessons Learned from Implementing a Programme of Home Modifications to Prevent Falls amongst the General Population

Safety, 2018
Home fall injuries amongst the general population are common and costly. In the Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI) trial, we showed that 26% of medically treated home fall injuries could be prevented by a package of home modifications undertaken ...
Michael D. Keall, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Nevil Pierse, Chris W. Cunningham, Michael G. Baker   +4 more
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Safety Is the Most Important Thing: How HOPE VI Helped Families [PDF]

, 2007
Examines whether the federal HOPE VI housing program has succeeded in its goal of improving residents' life circumstances and safety and alleviating their fear of crime.
Elizabeth Cove, Susan Popkin
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Effects of urban migrants’ public services access on non-housing consumption under housing pressure in China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Urban migrants face many consumption problems in developing countries. This study systematically examines the impact of migrants’ housing affordability on families’ non-housing consumption from the perspective of leasing, and it explores the mechanism ...
Xizan Jin, Lili Chen, Danrui Jin, Ziyi Chen, Heyuan You   +4 more
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Call The Question: Will the Greater Washington Region Collaborate and Invest to Solve Its Affordable Housing Shortage? [PDF]

, 2015
A group of public and private sector stakeholders concerned about housing affordability in the Greater Washington region began to meet in June 2014 to discuss how to solve the shortage of affordable housing.
Rick Cohen
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