As the need for graduate education continues to rise, universities must consider new ways to recruit graduate students from all over the world. This practicum document describes the design of a specialized student housing centre at the University of Manitoba that focuses on meeting the needs of graduate students specifically. Literature on community living and human wellness as well as several precedent studies helped to inform the programming and spatial planning of the project as well as each of the interior design considerations. The intense nature of graduate education can take its toll on the mental and physical well-being of graduate students. The interior design of the proposed Graduate Student Housing Centre (GSHC) aims to provide a welcoming and energizing third place environment where graduate students can live, study, network, play, and relax within one convenient location. / October 2016

Internationally it is agreed that housing is a basic human need. The right to housing is enshrined in the Bill of rights in the Constitution of South Africa (section 26), which endorses the right of citizens to have access to adequate housing (RSA, 1996). The state has an obligation to ensure that its citizens have access to adequate housing. Government in South Africa is committed to the establishment of a society based on social justice, where the quality of life of all citizens will be improved and their potential maximized. Government's commitment to fulfilling the right to housing for all its citizens is evident in the housing policies it has formulated, the most recent being the Breaking New Ground strategy. South Africa is experiencing a shortage of affordable housing. Low-middle income earners are struggling to own a house in the urban area. The market is failing to respond to the demand for affordable housing. A number of constraints are said to be contributing to this market failure: lack of effective implementation strategies, poor promotion of tenure, inadequate supply of affordable land and infrastructure, inadequacy of financial systems and poor utilisation of local building materials and technologies (Erguden,2001). The central argument in this dissertation is that land is a key issue hindering the supply of affordable housing by the private sector. This dissertation demonstrates that there is a case for state intervention to support the private sector to supply affordable housing. The state needs to do what the market does not (see Keivani et al, 2005 :2). Local government is seen as a key player in facilitating the expansion of affordable housing by directly providing land. The dissertation addresses the obstacles that prevent Local government from making land available as part of an effort to ensure the supply of affordable housing. Research is presented that indicates that local authorities are given iv bigger roles to play in housing policies, but less power and resources to implement. This implies that for the private sector to deliver affordable housing, amongst others there is a need for innovative land management approaches on the part of Local government for social justice to prevail.

Student Number : 0111065D - PhD thesis - School of Architecture and Planning - Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / This thesis deals with self-help housing networks in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. It starts by discussing some of the current manifestations and challenges of self-help housing in the two contexts. It locates these against neo-liberal development paradigms in Kenya and South Africa. It reviews some of the main theories and concepts that have been applied to understand self-help housing, arguing that there are many issues that these lenses fail to explain. Amongst these are the relationships amongst actors and the ways resources are exchanged in self-help housing. The thesis discusses some of the key resources used for self-help housing in Nairobi and Johannesburg, namely: land, finance, labour, materials and technology, and infrastructure and services. It develops a case for network analysis of these resources and actors in self-help housing. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to analysis of self-help housing networks in Nairobi and Johannesburg, based on empirical data. The three categories of networks analysed are: individual-based ego-centric networks; group-based networks of collective action; and content-of-ties-based networks of exchange. The study compares self-help housing networks in Nairobi and Johannesburg. On one hand, lack of the state intervention in Kenya has resulted in self-help housing in Nairobi being accessed almost exclusively through networks. On the other hand, state intervention in South Africa has resulted in weakening of ties within local groups and domination of state/market hierarchies in access to various self-help housing resources in Johannesburg. The major conclusion from this study is that, in both cities, networks remain a viable third way of provision of housing, in addition to (not instead of) housing production through state/market hierarchies and decentralised models. Networks tend to overcome lack of inclusion dominant in state/market hierarchies and lack of capacity, endemic in decentralised models. In terms of analysis, the study shows that network theories are relevant to understanding the operations of actors and access to resources in low-income housing, complementing sector-based understanding, which remains dominant in analysis of low-income housing today.

When the harbour settlement of Holmsund emerged the paternalistic milling society solely built itself around one cause, this generated a closed community consisting of a very uniform population. The impact is still present to the current day, homogenisation is causing individualisation and power is expressed by means of tangible possessions. Holmsunds’ door is closed, this BA proposal wish to unlock the door and leave it open. In order to accomplish the previously stated the strategic site of intervention is where one is the most responsive, where the daily life happens, where one lives. Modernity and digitalization generates a society where services are moving from physical spaces in the public to rather taking place within the home, thus putting a greater emphasis on the way we live. Not to mention the amount of time and value we invest in living during our lives, constantly craving to settle, to connect our bodies to one physical space. On that account housing will acts as the architectural engine for societal change and serves as the base for this project. This BA project proposes a housing project where the concept of sharing acts as the key theme. The idea suggests an apartment building which emphasizes the connection with its surroundings by combining public and private functions in a balanced transition and thus generating connections between various people. In more specific terms the building is defined through the means of sharing in various scales by: mixing different users, sharing activities in communal spaces and sharing resources through a reusing facility.

Thesis advisor: Matteo Iacoviello / Thesis advisor: Peter Ireland / Thesis advisor: Scott Schuh / These three essays are concerned with macroeconomic and monetary policy issues relating to the housing market and inflation-targeting. The essays can be characterized as applied macroeconomics in nature as they use insights from theory to construct macroeconomic models, which are then taken to the data. The first chapter in this study utilizes microeconomic evidence that nominal loss aversion plays a role in the pricing of housing services and explores the extent to which this phenomenon in the housing sector affects the macroeconomy as a whole. A two sector Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model of housing and consumption goods with downward nominal price rigidity in the housing sector is constructed to examine how asymmetries in the nominal pricing of housing services affects monetary policy in stabilizing the economy in response to shocks. A calibration exercise is also performed to gain insight to what degree pricing dynamics in the housing sector are driven by the tendency of sellers to be nominally loss averse. The second chapter explores the disparities in the success rate in hitting an explicit inflation target among OECD and Emerging Market inflation targeters. The study proposes a framework to try to circumvent the "good luck"/"good policy" forces as drivers of better inflation-targeting outcomes by estimating a measure of central bank credibility in targeting regimes. Two main findings are that Emerging Market targeting banks are less successful than their OECD counterparts in establishing credibility in targeting inflation and that credible regimes last on the order of five to ten times as long as the relatively short-lived incredible regimes for the two groups of targeting countries. The third chapter, co-authored with Scott Schuh of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, takes a preliminary empirical step to model inflation outcomes for inflation band-targeting countries which allows us to isolate the empirical determinants of inflation escaping from the targeted band. We also use our framework to determine whether US inflation is consistent with inflation under an explicit targeting regime. Our model generates the result that US inflation during the last decade is well predicted by a model of inflation-targeting countries. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

Thesis. 1979. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 100-102. / M.Arch

Leung Wai Yue. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2006-2007, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111). / Chapter PART I -- --- RESEARCH / Chapter A. --- Background: Public Housing Development in Hong Kong / Chapter B. --- Research Study / Chapter 1. --- Study of Slab Form Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong in Relation with Site / Chapter 1.1 --- Slab Housing Estates on Level Site / Chapter 1.2 --- Slab Housing Estates on Slope Site / Chapter 2. --- Study of Slab Formation in Relation with Circulation and Units / Chapter 2.1 --- Horizontal Organization of Units / Chapter 2.2 --- Horizontal Arrangement of Towers / Chapter 2.3 --- Variation in Units and Circualtion System / Chapter 3. --- Unit Study (Study of Le Corbusier's Work from 1922 to 1945) / Chapter PART II- --- DESIGN / Chapter A. --- Pre-Design Study / Chapter 1. --- Density Study of Old Slab Housing Estates and New Tower Estates / Chapter 1.1 --- Density of Old Slab Estates / Chapter 1.2 --- Density of New Tower Estates / Chapter 1.3 --- Conclusion / Chapter 2. --- Quality in Old Slab Public Housing Estates / Chapter 2.1 --- Adaptability in Site Organization / Chapter 2.2 --- Potential for Flexible Internal Space Organization / Chapter 2.3 --- Form Allows Diversified Circulation System / Chapter 3. --- Design Objectives / Chapter B. --- Design / Chapter 1. --- The Site - an Exisiting Tower Estate / Chapter 1.1 --- Site Scale / Chapter 1.2 --- History of Site -- a Former Slab Estate / Chapter 2. --- Volumetric Study of Slab Form against High Density Program / Chapter 2.1 --- Volumetric Study 01 / Chapter 2.2 --- Volumetric Study 02 / Chapter 2.3 --- Conclusion on Study and Further Development

National aid, transmitted and modified by the state and supplemented by the community, is only beginning to be specifically applied to the housing needs of the indigent aged. It is to the question of government's role in the housing of this element of the population that this study is addressed.

Homelessness has long been a part of society and is defined by a lack of permanent residence. The approach to homelessness has varied with time and recently an effort has been made to eradicate it in the United States. Several studies have shown the deleterious effects of homelessness on an individual’s health and the cost it brings to society. Others have demonstrated improvements in cost when these individuals are provided “low threshold housing.” Low threshold housing is an approach which seeks to house individuals without many of the requirements previously in place, such as sobriety or employment. This is becoming more widely implemented. The effect of low threshold housing on specific common health conditions remains to be seen. Diabetes is an extremely common health concern which affects both the housed and homeless equally, however, it is markedly more difficult to address while homeless. This study will seek to evaluate the effects of housing upon homeless individuals diabetic control. A cohort of newly housed individuals with poorly controlled diabetes will be selected and their glycemic control documented for the year following housing. Glycemic control will be measured via an individual’s Hemoglobin A1C at 3-month intervals. The values will be compared and evaluated for significant change. This information will allow us to evaluate the effects of housing on this common medical condition and to make appropriate changes to policy going forward.