RTC's affordable housing program: Reconciling competing goals

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Program

A Social-Return-On-Investment Analysis Of Bon Secours Hospital’s ‘Housing For Health’ Affordable Housing Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-520
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Fulgence Drabo ◽  
Grace Eckel ◽  
Samuel L. Ross ◽  
Michael Brozic ◽  
Chanie G. Carlton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Investment Analysis ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Social Return On Investment

Chongqing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Shatkin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gain Access ◽  
China’S Cities

Chongqing has witnessed an extraordinary experiment in urban development intended to deploy land-based finance as a tool to overcome the social and ecological problems that have increasingly beset China’s cities. This experiment included the use of land-based financing to undertake a public housing program that added a remarkable 800,000 units of affordable housing between 2011 and 2015. It also included efforts to accelerate urbanization through reforms to the household registration, or hukou system, and efforts to give farmers greater ability to gain access to the market value of their land. This chapter places the Chongqing experience in the context of China’s state capitalist model of urban development, which is premised on the state’s ownership of all urban land. This model has allowed the state to use commercial land development by state-owned enterprises as a powerful tool for economic growth, infrastructure development, and social engineering.

Public Housing and Vouchers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Housing Subsidy ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Design Evolution ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Low Income Households

Public housing and rental vouchers constitute two distinct forms of housing subsidy in the United States. Public housing, the nation’s oldest housing program for low-income renters provides affordable housing to about 1.2 million households in developments ranging in size from a single unit to multibuilding complexes with hundreds of apartments. The Housing Choice Voucher Program, founded more than 35 years after the start of public housing is now the nation’s largest rental subsidy program. It enables around 2 million low-income households to rent privately owned housing anywhere in the country. Although both programs provide low-income households with “deep” subsidies that ensure they spend no more than 30 percent of their adjusted income on rent, and both are operated by local public housing authorities, they offer distinct advantages and disadvantages. This chapter reviews and compares the two programs, examining their design, evolution, and strengths and weaknesses, including issues of racial segregation and concentrated poverty.

Caught between Aspiration and Actuality:

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Housing Cooperatives ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Housing Cooperative ◽  
Media Professional

The Turkish government promoted the building of housing cooperatives as a social housing program beginning in the second half of the 1930s. While these cooperatives received government aid, they did not produce affordable housing for lower-income groups. Instead, they provided fashionable modern houses to middle- and high-income homeowners. In architectural journals, these new houses were understood and critiqued as exemplars of a specifically Turkish modern style, rather than as pragmatic solutions to a housing crisis. Caught between Aspiration and Actuality: The Etiler Housing Cooperative and the Production of Housing in Turkey analyzes the transformation of housing cooperatives from a social housing program into a method to enable middle-class homeownership by examining the story of the Etiler Housing Cooperative, built between 1952 and 1957 in Istanbul. Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander follows the story of Etiler through a detailed examination of laws, parliamentary minutes, popular media, professional publications on architecture, maps, and other published materials.

A FRAMEWORK FOR EMERGENT NEEDS ANALYSIS DURING FRONT-END DESIGN IN SOCIAL HOUSING

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joas Serugga ◽  
Mike Kagioglou ◽  
Patricia Tzortzopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Markov Modeling ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Front End ◽  
Hidden Markov Modeling ◽  
The Face ◽  
Theoretical Conception ◽  
The Many

Social Housing is increasingly a focus of debate in many countries because of the escalating need for affordable housing that has become intertwined with the needs of society both emergent and traditional. The delivery of social housing, however, is often complex from the many stakeholders involved resulting in design challenges on account of conflicting needs. This paper presents a conceptual model for Design Decision Support in the face of emergent needs from multi-use scenarios defined by the multiple stakeholders. The Brazilian government’s Minha Casa Minha Vida social housing program is the basis for the framework’s conceptualization. The model allows for analysis of emergent user and design needs during design using probabilistic Hidden Markov Modeling of requirements changes. This paper’s novel contribution is to present a theoretical conception of HMM in the analysis of changes in social housing requirements and modeling their interdependencies in front-end design decision making. The paper, therefore, adds to knowledge of requirements forecasting in design of social housing in the face of emergent needs.

scholarly journals Sustainable construction for affordable housing program in Kabul

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Mohammadullah Hakim Ebrahimi ◽  
Philippe Devillers ◽  
Eric Garcia-Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Earth Construction ◽  
Industrial Modernity ◽  
Earthen Architecture ◽  
Earth Block ◽  
Local Materials ◽  
Modern Technologies

Afghanistan suffers from four decades of war, caused a massive migration of the rural population to the cities. Kabul was originally designed for 1,5 million people, where now 5 million people live. The importation of modern western styles housing for rapid reconstruction reveals apparent cultural conflict and significant environmental footprint. The new constructive cultures for sustainable reconstruction should necessary consider the use of local materials combined with modern technologies. Earthen architecture underlies the embodiment of Afghanistan architecture. The aim of this research is to revisit traditional afghan earthen construction with the tools of industrial modernity. Three soils of the Kabul region were first characterized. Then, sun-dried mud brick and compressive earth block, with and without stabilization have been prepared and tested in the laboratory to develop the most suitable earth construction element which is cost effective and easily available compared to the imported modern products.

The Siting Dilemma

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Lance Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
African American ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Great Depression

From the Great Depression until the 1970s, project-based housing assistance, in the form of the Public Housing Program, was planned and developed in a way that reinforced existing patterns of residential segregation by race. As the victims of public policy that promoted segregation, African Americans decried the way that public housing was used to expand and maintain the ghetto. The dire and persistent need for decent affordable housing and the concomitant resources that develop and maintain such housing, however, have complicated the African American response to segregated affordable housing. This complex and multifaceted stance toward segregated affordable housing has had implications for affordable housing policy from the Public Housing Program through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. This chapter chronicles the African American response and considers the implications of this response for past, present, and future public policy.

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