M.Comm. / The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the progress that has been made in the provision of housing finance to low-income earners. In 1994, housing affordability was constrained, as around 86% of households earned below R3 500. The focus, therefore, is on the role played by both government and the four major banks in broadening access to housing finance for these households and also those who earn less than R7 500. Frameworks that brought about certain initiatives aimed at addressing this problem are explored. On the side of government, the housing subsidy scheme and the role played by the government housing finance institutions (i.e. the National Housing Finance Corporation and the Rural Housing Loan Fund) are explored. On the banking sector side, the provisioning of housing finance prior to and after the implementation of the Financial Sector Charter (FSC) in 2004 is investigated. The dissertation concludes by looking the challenges that exist in the low-cost housing finance environment. The paper notes that, although some considerable progress has been made in the broadening of access to housing finance, there is a huge gap between the number of subsidies approved and the number of households that have benefited from the government subsidy scheme, possibly resulting from, among other things, capacity constraints at local government level. In respect of the banking sector, data analysed shows that bank involvement in the low-income market was very minimal before the implementation of the FSC. However, as much as some progress has been made, there are some serious challenges in this market that could have possibly prevented the role players from extending this access to the rest of the target group.

Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Housing, specifically for low-income households in Botswana, has been observed to be one of the housing challenges encountered in the housing sector in Botswana. A number of this population group in the Gaborone area still live in very poor housing conditions, while some are renting in townships where few housing units are of proper quality. The availability of government schemes such as SHHA, which provides housing finance to low and middle-income groups, does not make the significant impact required to alleviate this. As few make use of the scheme, questions have been raised as to whether there are any constraints that hinder low and middle-income households in the use of the scheme, as well as the extent of the impact made by the scheme in delivering affordable housing in Gaborone. The objective of this paper is therefore to examine the SHHA housing finance scheme and further, to assess its effectiveness in housing delivery to low-income urban households. In order to ensure that the findings are reliable, the study examined the plot applications patterns in the SHHA area in Gaborone, the number of funds applications, and the amount disbursed, as well as the status of the SHHA housing projects. All the information is relevant to the past 5 years for SHHA applications, and 10 years for plot application. Commercial financial institutions financially exclude the low-income households, hence their need to access their own housing finance specific to their financial ability. In examining the SHHA scheme, the findings indicate that the main challenge lies in the land allocation, without which one does not have access to SHHA housing finance. There is a huge backlog for land allocation and the lack of plot ownership (due to a shortage of serviced land) means that low-income individuals are not able to effectively use the scheme, and this in turn hinders urban expansion in Gaborone and surrounding areas. Furthermore, there is less availability of housing finance programmes specific to the low-income population in Botswana. The government alone cannot afford to supply funding without a partnership with other private housing developers. The limited number of SHHA loans is making a small change, but is not effective enough to end poor shelters in Gaborone city. To conclude the study, it is recommended that improvement in land and housing policies is the only way to improve conditions. The policies should focus on the target group, and be specific about the partnership between the government and private developers and companies in order to attract them into housing development which will result in a slum-free Gaborone. The legal framework, and the land and housing policies, as well as the Housing Act should directly address private sector participation in housing development for both land use planning and housing.

Thesis (M.B.A.)-Business Studies Unit, Durban University of Technology, 2006 v, 96 leaves, Annexures A-F / The marginal and low-income groups face a number of obstacles in their quest to secure housing finance to improve their living conditions. South Africa has a sophisticated and effective finance system. However, it appears that the only beneficiaries from it are the middle and upper income groups of the housing market. The whole system of accessing housing finance has proven to be problematic for the marginal and lower income groups for various reasons, among others: it is not user friendly and is not easily understood by an illiterate or poorly educated person. The key challenge for the South African housing finance system is to find ways of bridging the gap between those who have a regular income and those who do not. The credit gap exists because of the relationship between risk and cost which is a standard lending issue across the globe. The study has unpacked the obstacles by looking at the literature and role players in the housing finance. / M

The federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, authorized in 1986, has gained recognition over the last decade as America's largest place-based subsidized housing production program. The Qualified Census Tract (QCT) provision of the LIHTC program awards developers for projects built in high-poverty neighborhoods. This research examines whether the QCT provision is deconcentrating poverty or instead perpetuating it by comparing QCTs with LIHTC projects against QCTs with no LIHTC projects. In this study, a socioeconomic index is created to examine changes in socioeconomic variables (poverty, income, unemployment, and education) using 1990 Decennial Census data and 2005-2009 American Community Survey data for the twenty most populated MSAs in the United States to determine how LIHTC projects have changed the landscape of poverty in urban QCTs. Control and target groups were established to analyze the impact of LIHTC projects in QCTs. The control group consists of QCTs with no LIHTC projects and the target group contains QCTs with LIHTC projects. In order to determine how the socioeconomic variables have changed over the last fifteen years, the percent change from 1990 to 2005-2009 was calculated for each tract. Independent Sample T-tests were conducted at the national level, MSA level, and county level (when the sample size was large enough) using SPSS to determine if the difference in the target group's derived socioeconomic index and variables were significantly different from the control group. The findings indicate the target groups overwhelmingly outperformed the control groups for the socioeconomic index and every variable except unemployment. The results of this study may be valuable for policymakers to develop thresholds and guidelines for future LIHTC development in areas concentrated by poverty. / by Rebecca J. Walter. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauricio Godoi Amaral Lima.pdf: 917720 bytes, checksum: 0806aea0afa76bf8a6856581ecf44982 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-08 / The Brazilian real estate market has been growing at high rates which makes us the question if the tools that have been currently used in SFH will be enough to meet the increasing demand for financings, taking into account that this form has the saving account as its main source of resources. To fulfill the need of alternative sources of housing finance, the SFI was created, that allowed another way of catchment, the real state receivables securitization, making a secondary market of real estate assets. A historical study has been done showing the main inefficiencies in housing financing system, from 1964 to 1997, with the creation of SFI. Going through all the legal scope developed for the implementation of this new system, trying to understand the main reason why securitization is not a tool in Brazil, compared to the high potential we have after macroeconomical stability. A historical data raising is made, applying the method to the bibliography and quantitative research to verify the maintenance of the current financial resources catchment way for real state credit, comparing the saving account resources directing, demand quantity by financing, and the ways that new catchment tools, such as securitization, can contribute for supporting the real estate credit in the future / O mercado imobiliário brasileiro vem crescendo em elevados índices o que faz refletir se as ferramentas que são atualmente praticadas no SFH serão suficientes para atender a crescente demanda por financiamentos, tendo em vista que essa forma, tem a caderneta de poupança como principal fonte de recursos. Para suprir essas necessidades de fontes alternativas para os financiamentos habitacionais, foi criado o SFI, que permitiu a captação sob outra forma, a securitização de recebíveis imobiliária, constituindo o mercado secundário de ativos imobiliários. É realizado um estudo histórico, mostrando as principais ineficiências no Sistema Financeiro da Habitação, com início em 1964 e chegando até 1997, com a criação do SFI. Passando por todo arcabouço jurídico desenvolvido para implantação desse novo sistema, buscando entender o principal motivo que a securitização não é uma ferramenta trabalhada no Brasil, comparada com o grande potencial que temos após a estabilidade macroeconômica. Efetua-se um levantamento de dados históricos, aplicando o método de pesquisa bibliográfica e quantitativa para verificar a manutenção da forma atual de captação de recursos financeiros destinados ao crédito imobiliário, comparando o direcionamento compulsório dos recursos de poupança, quantidade da demanda por financiamentos e as formas que as novas ferramentas de captação, como securitização, contribuirá para a sustentação do crédito imobiliário no futuro

During the 2000s U.S. mortgage borrowing experienced its most volatile cycle in the postwar record, with mortgage debt more than doubling between 2000 and 2008 before declining by more than 10% over the next five years. The consequences of the boom and bust for both borrowers and the wider macroeconomy were significant, with millions losing their homes to foreclosure or their jobs to the ensuing deleveraging-driven recession. Recent research has focused on variations in credit supply as a primary determinant of both the boom in mortgage borrowing and subsequent collapse, as well as the concurrent rise and fall of residential real estate prices and employment. In the wake of the Great Recession many have called for countercyclical policy intervention in the mortgage market, both to restrain over-leveraging during booms and to provide additional access to refinancing credit during busts. Moreover some analysis has placed the blame for the volatile U.S. credit cycle on the policies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest government-sponsored enterprises, which have been labeled as excessively risky, actively destabilizing, and regressive. Nevertheless, though many have called for their reform these two agencies appear to be a continuing feature of the U.S. housing finance system and are currently well-positioned to implement countercyclical credit supply policies. In my dissertation I propose a novel countercyclical policy intervention by the government-sponsored enterprises and analyze its impact on mortgage borrowers.

Thesis (M.B.A.)-Business Studies Unit, Durban University of Technology, 2006 v, 96 leaves, Annexures A-F / The marginal and low-income groups face a number of obstacles in their quest to secure housing finance to improve their living conditions. South Africa has a sophisticated and effective finance system. However, it appears that the only beneficiaries from it are the middle and upper income groups of the housing market. The whole system of accessing housing finance has proven to be problematic for the marginal and lower income groups for various reasons, among others: it is not user friendly and is not easily understood by an illiterate or poorly educated person. The key challenge for the South African housing finance system is to find ways of bridging the gap between those who have a regular income and those who do not. The credit gap exists because of the relationship between risk and cost which is a standard lending issue across the globe. The study has unpacked the obstacles by looking at the literature and role players in the housing finance.

Depuis le début des années 2000, le coût des terrains nécessaires à la production de logements locatifs sociaux neufs a augmenté, au même titre que le coût de leur construction. Dans le même temps, l’État a considérablement réduit les subventions directes qu’il accorde à chaque opération HLM. Malgré cela, le nombre de logements locatifs sociaux livrés chaque année a connu une hausse importante et durable. Alors que 46 000 logements HLM ont été produits en 2000, plus de 100 000 le sont systématiquement à partir de 2006.La thèse explore cet apparent paradoxe, en analysant les évolutions de l’organisation institutionnelle du système de production HLM. Pour ce faire, elle s’appuie sur le traitement de données statistiques ainsi que sur une enquête réalisée auprès d’acteurs locaux de l’habitat au sein des communautés d’agglomération du Val-de-Bièvre, du Boulonnais et de la communauté urbaine de Bordeaux. Un outillage théorique spécifique est proposé, qui croise les apports de la théorie de la régulation et de recherches sur les acteurs de la production urbaine. Cela permet de montrer qu’un ensemble de décisions politiques, d’ajustements locaux et de dispositifs de coordination ont été articulés de façon originale au cours de la décennie. Ils visent notamment à faire que les organismes HLM mobilisent leurs réserves financières dans la production neuve, à distribuer inégalement dans l’espace le surplus de logements produits et à réorganiser les modalités d’accès à la ressource foncière. Le système mis en place est cependant dépendant des opérateurs à but lucratif ainsi que des évolutions des marchés immobiliers ; il participe de plus à redéfinir les bénéficiaires de l’intervention publique en France. / Since the early 2000s, social housing production in France has become increasingly more expensive: both land prices and construction costs have increased. At the same time, the State has considerably reduced the direct subsidies granted to each new development. However, the number of new social dwellings has increased significantly and lastingly. While 46,000 dwellings were produced in 2000, more than 100,000 have been produced each year since 2006. This thesis explores this apparent paradox by analyzing the evolution of the institutional organization of the French social housing production system. To do so, it relies on the processing of statistical data as well as on a survey carried out among local housing decision makers in the urban areas of Bordeaux and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and in the Val-de-Bièvre, a gathering of municipalities located south of Paris. An original theoretical framework is used, which combines regulation theory with the results of research focusing on the actors of urban production. This allows for the underlining of the fact that a set of political decisions, local adjustments and coordination mechanisms were articulated in a novel way throughout the decade. In particular, those seek to ensure that social housing organizations use their financial reserves for the production of new dwellings, that new social dwellings are unevenly distributed in space, and that access to land for social housing is reorganized. However, this system appears to depend on real estate markets and for-profit operators; it also participates in redefining the beneficiaries of public intervention in France.

Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Maria de Lourdes Fonseca / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão do Território, 2016. / Com o objetivo de construir um estudo de caso sobre a produção habitacional do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) Faixas II e III, na região do ABC Paulista, entre 2009 e 2014, recuperamos os caminhos dessa produção no Brasil desde a Primeira República até os dias atuais, esmiuçando os sistemas de financiamento brasileiro e as inovações de funding, culminando com o lançamento do PMCMV, em que identificamos uma dinâmica que convencionamos chamar de desenquadramento do Programa. Constatamos que o Programa está totalmente inserido na dinâmica de mercado e, não diferente deste, demonstrou que, nos empreendimentos das Faixas II e III, houve incremento de lançamentos, diminuição do tamanho das unidades e aumento do valor de venda, o que levou muitas unidades a se desenquadrarem do Programa, assim como a muitos mutuários que, a priori, seriam beneficiários. O estudo em questão se valeu de dados primários da Caixa Econômica Federal sobre custos, tamanho das unidades habitacionais e valores de venda, por meio de uma investigação que evidenciou as contradições concentradas também nas Faixas II e III, ainda pouco exploradas por grande parte das pesquisas. / In order to build a study case regarding the housing production of the MCMV Program (PMCMV) Ranges II and III, in the ABC Paulista área, between the years 2009 and 2014 were recovered the paths of that production in Brazil since the First Republic to the present days, after careful analyses of the Brazilian funds systems and funds innovations, culminating in the launch of PMCMV, it were identified a dynamic that was conventionally called Program declassification. It was noted that the program is fully inserted into the market dynamics and showed that in the housing projects of Ranges II and III, there was an increasing of house release projects, a decreasing in the size of these units and an increasing on the sales values, which led many units to be out of the parameters of the program, as well as many people, who, at first would be beneficiaries from the program. The study in question were based on Caixa Econômica Federal primary data about costs, housing unit¿s sizes and sales value through an investigation that also showed the contradictions concentrated in the Ranges II and III which still is unexplored by most part of available researches.

The theme of this thesis is financing of purchase of a flat in the contemporary conditions in the Czech Republic. The thesis is focuses mainly on an analysis of mortgage loans and building savings products. The thesis is also dedicated to comparison of the possible options of financing the own housing in the particular case in order to find the optimal solution and propose the final recommendations.