Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references. / The objective of this thesis is to understand the term " HOUSING" as a verb. This implies that housing is a process which includes three major stages. First, the planning POLICY stage determines distributions of resources, methods of production, and programs of activities. Second, the architectural DESIGN stage transforms these objectives into physical environments through technological means and spatial articulations. Third, the INHABITATION stage involves management of the resulted environment, and its use by inhabitants. The quality of the end product and the user's satisfaction with the product depend on who is making decisions in the three stages. In modern Western urban centers, the results of two centuries of industrialization and urbanization, housing for low-income groups is subsidized by government at federal and local levels. Urban social housing projects, with few exceptions, are products of a hierarchical structuring of the three stages of housing. This structure is possible only when it is controlled by a centralized authority. The problems of this rigidity in urban social housing are manifested in its financial strain on public resources, management crisis, and rapid obsolescence. Also, these problems reflect a mismatch between the needs define d by public agencies and the actual needs of the people housed. Exceptional cases to this mismatch reveal conflicts and contradictions in the present system of housing production, and suggest alternatives to achieve a dialectic and productive interaction between all three stages (POLICY , DESIGN AND INHABITATION) in the housing process. Two major issues addressed in this thesis are the characteristics of alternative housing processes and the role of the architect in such processes. / by Lawrence Kai-Leung Cheng. / M.Arch.

Multiple housing affordability indexes are used to measure and assess housing affordability. Each index has its own definition of affordability, causing varying viewpoints on what is to be considered affordable or unaffordable. Four indexes were used in this study: two from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), one from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), and the last from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The indexes were applied to Census data to assess the housing affordability situation of both homeowners and renters in the census tracts of Cache County, Utah. The measures together show distinct differences in the housing markets throughout the county. The study provides implications for housing counselors, educators, lenders, and policy makers, and provides suggestions for preventing housing crisis, including the benefits of the residual income approach for determining housing affordability

While the lack of affordable housing is a problem across the United States, the situation is particularly dire in Miami-Dade County, FL. As of 2017, 49% of all households in Miami-Dade County were housing cost-burdened (defined as paying more than 30% of household income on housing). Now ranked as the fifth least affordable housing market in the nation, the trend is worsening and negatively impacting workforce retention, wealth creation, and economic mobility (Greiner, 2017). / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Bibliography: leaves 244-276. This thesis investigates economic policy changes and their effects on the urban housing situation in China both under the centrally planned economy and during the period of urban housing system reforms since 1978. It considers two main housing models: government intervention in urban housing based on a market economy, and government houring control under a centrally planned economy. It takes China as a case to discuss transition issues from the centrally planned housing system to the market-oriented one.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-398). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (B. Arch.)--Roger Williams University, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Feb. 11, 2010) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 01, 2010). Creative project (M.A.), 3 hrs. Includes bibliographical references (p. [21]).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-398). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985.