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This study focuses on one particular local housing market in North East Scotland, and proposes an effective approach to understanding a number of aspects of the study area. The main dataset was obtained from the Aberdeen Solicitors Property Centre, which was then combined with Land Value Information Unit data and Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics to provide rich information on the dwellings listed on the market from April 1984 to June 2010.  In addition, local market practitioners were interviewed. The study finds the study area has a spatial hierarchy structure – housing attributes have different effects on house prices in Aberdeen city, city suburb, accessible rural in Aberdeenshire, and remote rural areas.  Each spatial submarket is further divided into five segments according to dwellings’ qualities to see the effect of counter-urbanisation on both rural and urban housing markets.  The theoretical analysis suggests that an external demand shock for a particular type of housing in the rural housing market is likely to trigger house unit filtering as well as households filtering if new constructions are allowed, and/or conversion cost is low, and/or cross-price elasticity if demand is high.  This theoretical analysis is supported by descriptive statistics and causality test results. The study also finds that pricing strategy has a significant impact on transaction price.  Decomposition modelling results suggest properties sold under the closed bid “offers over” system sell 20%- 40% more than those sold under “fixed price”.  This advantage of the “offers over” system however, may be counteracted if the property stays on the market over three months.  As the survival analysis shows that although “offers over” properties sell faster at the beginning of the list, “fixed price” is more favourable if the property has been on the market for a relatively long time.  Findings are likely to change as a result of the introduction of the Home Report.  The study finds Home Report has eliminated the advantage of the “offers over” pricing system from the selling price view point.

This is an empirical study of the rationale the lays behind the decisions made to refurbish or demolish 20th century social mass-housing. The study is based on four case studies located in Edinburgh. From these studies, the decision-making criteria are identified. These fall into three broad categories, which are structural integrity, sociocultural value, and economic practicality. The analysis of these three categories of criteria sheds light on the way in which each is used in justifying the decisions taken. The case studies include 1) the demolition of West Granton Housing Scheme-A; 2) the·. demolition of Tweedsmuir and Grampian Houses; 3) the demolition of Grampian and Cairngorm Houses; and 4) The mixed solution of demolition and refurbishment applied to Ebenezer MacRae's Housing Estates. The study analyses the decision-making process according to three criteria: structural integrity, economic practicality, and sociocultural value. While structural integrity is a precondition for a building's survival and economic viability the fundamental language in which the discussion is conducted, sociocultural value is also of critical significance, as it most clearly indicates the precise and often complex nature of the problem and its solution. The broader context in which these competing agendas operate, however, is political, and as this study makes clear, the ultimate decision and justification on why a building might be demolished or conserved is political.

In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) took over the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) on grounds of mismanagement and failure to revitalize a failing housing stock. When the CHA regained independence five years later, in 2000, the agency launched the most extensive redevelopment effort of public housing in the nation’s history. This paper assesses the extent to which the CHA has succeeded in meeting the directive outlined by the Plan for Transformation. It concludes that, despite setbacks in meeting specific goals, the CHA has demonstrated itself to be an effective and accountable housing agency. Nonetheless, the CHA needs to addresses shortcomings in the transparency of management, efficiency of operations, and accessibility of services.

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The study reported in this thesis attempted to determine some of the effects of institutional living on a group of elderly people. The study endeavored to discover whether any changes took place between the expectations of the persons planning to enter a home for the aged and the opinions of the same persons after they had lived in the home.

The problem with which this pilot study is concerned is to examine selected characteristics of tenants living in government-subsidized housing in an attempt to determine whether or not they differ significantly from tenants who qualify, but do not live in government subsidized housing and to determine if a relationship exists between these differences and the move to subsidized housing.

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