Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-116). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-110). Also available in print.

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Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempts to establish the determinants of house prices in Namibia and their implications foraffordability of houses. The study made use of the ARDL time series model. The study established that the seven variables in the study are cointegrated. The cointegration results enabled the specification and estimation of the ARDL Error Correction Model. The results established that gross domestic product and interest rates are important in explaining the variations in house prices in the short run. Ironically, money supply and inflation, which are closely linked, were found not to affect house prices in the short run. In addition, national domestic credit, which was used as a proxy for total mortgages advanced in the country,wasnot a significant explanation of house prices in the short run. The study also established that the independent variables included in the ARDL Error Correction Model collectively influence house prices in Namibia in the long run. The implication of this is that policies that are meant to influence house prices in the long term can actually target any one or a combination of the variables included in the study. The main recommendation emanating from the study is that the government should redouble its efforts to provide affordable land and housing to the lower and/or middle income households in Namibia.

Public housing across the United States differs greatly in physical form, construction quality, and reception by the community, among myriad other variables. This reports examines what successful public housing looks like, and what characteristics make certain public housing projects more successful than others. There is a great deal of thought and literature predicting this success. However, it is rarely accompanied by a corresponding picture of the “outputs” of successful public housing. Assessment measures presented in existing literature and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s publications do not provide a thorough metric by which to measure public housing success on a project-by-project basis. This report examines the existing metrics—both explicit and inferred—and assesses their suitability for this purpose. Finally, it compiles indicators of success from various sources and lobbies for a comprehensive success metric at an individual public housing project level. / text

台灣四十多年來，隨著工業化及經濟快速的發展，國民所得逐年的增加與生活水準的日漸提高，已使得大眾對於住宅品質愈來愈加重視。所謂住宅品質，其內涵除了客觀上基本設施的完備外，尚應包括主觀滿意度的提高，而提高滿意度的方法，則可以藉著適當管理維護工作的執行，使住宅環境能維持在一定的居住品質之上。由於我國對於住宅管理維護工作之執行，除了國民住宅外，目前並無明確的管理規定，而民間對於住宅的管理維護，則分別有許多不同的管理組織或管理維護公司，採取不同的管理維護方式在進行管理維護的工作，對於不同的管理維護方式，其所獲得的住宅品質水準為何?則有待進一步加以研究。 因此，本文擬先建立住宅管理維護可提昇住宅品質之假設，首先蒐集住宅品質及住宅管理維護之相關文獻與調查報告，對目前之住宅品質情形及住宅管理維護狀況做初步的瞭解。其次，為了對住宅品質及住宅管理維護之關係做進一步的探討，本研究將依據一般民間住宅及國民住宅不同的管理維護方式，在台北都會區中選取七個研究個案，對個案不同的管理維護方式與住宅品質狀況做一調查，並藉著問卷抽樣調查的方法，瞭解住戶對目前住宅品質及住宅管理維護之滿意情形，然後根據調查資料來建立住宅管理維護影響住宅品質之迴歸分析模式，分析之模式主要有二，其一為建立住宅屬性、住戶屬性及管理維護屬性影響住宅品質之迴歸模式，其二為將住戶滿意度之問卷變項透過因子分析技術，選出主要之因子，做為迴歸分析模式之自變項。根據本論文之初步結果顯示，模式一以屋齡、費用繳交率、住宅安全措施等項目，對於住宅品質之滿意度影響較為顯著，模式二則以管制公約、公共設施、管理費等因子，對住宅品質滿意度之影響較為顯著。 最後，本文擬根據實證研究的結果，對目前國民住宅及一般民間住宅之管理維護法令與政策，未來之修正與研擬方向做一探討與建議，希望從法令之訂定與執行，落實到民間住宅管理之實際運作，使住宅管理維護制度得以建立，進而達到提昇住宅品質之目標。 / This paper is trying to answer whether housing management and maintenance could improve (or influence) housing quality or not? Are they any different housing quality satisfication among different types of housing management and maintenance? In order to answer these questions, we slect seven cases to survey their housing quality as well as management and maintenance situation. Two models are tested, one is housing quality regression analysis of housing management and maintenance factors; the other is household satisfication factor analysis of housing quality. Both results support that housing management and maintenance is important to housing quality. Some policy implications are also suggested, particular in housing management and maintenance regulation.

This research paper examines China's urban housing reform with a historical perspective, which provides an insight into current housing policy. In the past two decades, urban housing in China has been under a drastic transformation. As a critical component of the economy, the housing sector has played a very active role in restructuring China's economic system. The housing reform has encountered significant resistance. This research focuses on the property rights issue, which is a major concern in housing reform. With a comparative approach, the study addresses the basic research question, what are the fundamental barriers in urban housing reform. The research also involves a comprehensive review of the concept of the property rights and related issues in Western countries to establish a theoretical framework for furthering China's housing reform in term of property rights. The research also involves an inspection of housing reform in selected post-socialist countries to explore alternative transformation policies. Further housing reform policy is also articulated. / Master of Urban and Regional Planning

This study is an investigation of the relationships between selected structural characteristics of the community and the quality of housing. It quantitatively examines the relationship between the following structural elements as independent variables and quality of housing as the dependent variable. The independent variables are city size, sex-age composition, socioeconomic status, racial-ethnic composition, age of the city, regional location, form of government, city type and occupancy status.

Thesis: M.Arch.A.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1976. / "February 1976." / Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-240). / Preface: The purpose of this study is to develop an approach to low-income housing in Third World countries. The usual combination of quick urbanization (or high housing demand) and scarcity of resources and technology makes the supply of housing extremely difficult in Third World countries. In these conditions, a housing system, in order to be significant, can not be defined a priori, based on static and often imported standards, but should be a dynamic concept which is defined directly from the characteristics of the considered region or country, at the time of consideration. This study tries to develop a methodology to evaluate both the housing demand and all available resources of a Third World country, then deduce a "housing definition" appropriate to the needs of the country. The study of the housing needs includes the evaluation of the gap between the demand and the market supply of dwellings (and the related facilities) and the observed priorities of the people who lack the housing facilities. The study of the resources consists in the analysis of all aspects which relate to the problem of housing in the considered country. They include the following: 1. Financing (public: G.N.P. and housing budgets; and private: distribution of incomes and expenditures). 2. Technology (industrial equipment and knowhow, and structure of the supply market and communications networks). 3. Construction materials (local vs. imported). 4. Labour (skilled, unskilled and unemployed). 5. Land (location and cost, related to the housing needs). 6. Climatic conditions. The model shows how to evaluate these variables and relate them to each other to design a realistic housing approach for the considered country, including financing, planning and construction proposals. 1 The financial proposals consist of general strategies to best use the available public and private (often untapped) resources. Cooperative systems are discussed which can organize and guarantee the lowest income groups to allow for more users' participation. The planning proposals consist of optimized layouts and densities which minimize the overall utilities and construction costs while respecting the patterns of life and the participation of the considered people. The construction proposals consist of a building system adapted to the defined resources of the country, including incremental and self-help alternatives to take care of the extreme cases. The costs of the optimized alternatives are then estimated, and a parallel is drawn between the range of construction costs, the range of the available land costs, the range of income of the people needing the facilities and the government's housing budget to distribute consequently the required subsidies. The methodology is fully illustrated by a detailed case study of Lebanon. A range of detailed alternatives is proposed. They illustrate the rationale and flexibility of the described model. / by Roland E. Abdeni. / M.Arch.A.S.