Addressing the Urban Housing Problem: Does Subsidizing Homeownership Best Meet the Housing Needs of Urban Squatter Households?

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Toby C. Monsod
Keyword(s):  
Urban Housing ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Housing Choice ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Housing Problem ◽  
Housing Programs ◽  
Housing Costs ◽  
Housing Needs

Urban housing programs in the Philippines have narrowly focused on maximizing the output of new houses and sites for sale at below market prices, an approach that presumes that subsidizing homeownership is the best way to meet the housing needs of urban squatter households. By estimating housing choice in an urban setting and measuring the responses of squatter households to changes in housing costs and different housing policies, this paper demonstrates otherwise.

Squatting: The Fight for Decent Shelter, 1970s–1980s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
John Marsland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the twenty years after the Second World War, housing began to be seen as a basic right among many in the west, and the British welfare state included many policies and provisions to provide decent shelter for its citizens. This article focuses on the period circa 1968–85, because this was a time in England when the lack of affordable, secure-tenured housing reached a crisis level at the same time that central and local governmental housing policies received wider scrutiny for their ineffectiveness. My argument is that despite post-war laws and rhetoric, many Britons lived through a housing disaster and for many the most rational way they could solve their housing needs was to exploit loopholes in the law (as well as to break them out right). While the main focus of the article is on young British squatters, there is scope for transnational comparison. Squatters in other parts of the world looked to their example to address the housing needs in their own countries, especially as privatization of public services spread globally in the 1980s and 1990s. Dutch, Spanish, German and American squatters were involved in a symbiotic exchange of ideas and sometimes people with the British squatters and each other, and practices and rhetoric from one place were quickly adopted or rejected based on the success or failure in each place.

scholarly journals Export Crops and Civil Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1484-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Crost ◽  
Joseph H Felter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
World Market ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Agricultural Export ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Export Crops

Abstract Many experts see a move toward high-value export crops, such as fruits and vegetables, as an important opportunity for economic growth and poverty reduction, but little is known about the effects of export crops in fragile and conflict-affected countries. We exploit movements in world market prices combined with geographic variation in crop production to show that increases in the value of bananas, the country’s biggest export crop, caused an increase in conflict violence and insurgent-controlled territory in the Philippines. This effect was concentrated in provinces where bananas are produced in large plantations with areas greater than 25 hectares. Our results are consistent with a mechanism in which insurgents fund their operations by extorting large agricultural export firms.

Multiple Housing Programs and Urban Housing Policy

1972 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Brueggeman ◽  
Ronald L Racster ◽  
Halbert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Housing Programs

scholarly journals Tackling the urban housing problem in the Irish Free State, 1922–1940

Urban History ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH MCMANUS
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Free State ◽  
Housing Problem ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Drive State ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Irish Free State

ABSTRACT:At its inception, the Irish Free State faced an apparently intractable housing problem that required immediate action. This article examines the legislation enacted in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on its impact on local authority housing in Ireland's provincial towns. Whereas the 1932 Housing Act has generally been heralded as the start of a concerted attack on the slums, this assertion is re-evaluated in the context of the debates of the 1920s. Following an overview of the national situation, a case-study of Ballina, Co. Mayo, explores the impacts of the housing drive. State-aided housing schemes made a significant contribution to the housing stock between 1923 and 1940. Although characterized by contemporary media as a triumph, however, the housing drive raised many issues including build quality, costs, opposition and social segregation. The article considers some of these challenges and raises a number of questions for future consideration.

Understanding Wheel Spinning in the Context of Affective Factors

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo ◽  
Joseph Barbosa Beck
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Mastery Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Filipino Students ◽  
The Impact

The notion of wheel spinning, students getting stuck in the mastery learning cycle of an ITS without mastering the skill, is an emerging issue. Although wheel spinning has been analyzed, there has been little work in understanding what factors underlie it, and whether it occurs in cultural contexts outside that of the United States. This work is an extension of an earlier analysis of 116 students in an urban setting in the Philippines. The authors found that Filipino students using the Scatterplot Tutor exhibited wheel spinning behaviors. The authors explored the impact of an intervention, Scooter the Tutor, on wheel spinning behavior and did not find that it had any effect. They also analyzed data from quantitative field observations, and found that wheel spinning is prevented by engaged concentration, caused by confusion, but not causally related to boredom. This result suggests that the problem of wheel spinning is primarily cognitive in nature, and not related to student motivation. However, wheel spinning was positively correlated with gaming the system, and causal analysis suggests that wheel spinning causes gaming.

scholarly journals Integrating architectural, social and housing history

Urban History ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick J. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Societal Dimensions

The growth of interest in urban and housing history during recent decades has produced a large volume of studies that has examined broad societal parameters, or themes, such as housing policies, economics and legislation. Concurrently, a growing volume of historical research about households and families has been published, but few studies examine the lifestyles and values of the residents. In sum, there rarely has been any systematic analysis of how longitudinal developments in domestic life are related to developments in the spatial layout, the meaning and use of shared and private spaces and the daily activities these accommodate. In general, the inter-relations between the architectural, cultural and societal dimensions of housing history have commonly been overlooked. This paper argues why, and then illustrates how, integrative concepts and methods can be applied to diversify and enrich recurrent interpretations by referring to a published study of urban housing and daily life in the French- speaking cantons of Switzerland between 1860 and 1960.1

scholarly journals THE DYNAMICS AND DETERMINANTS OF SLAVE PRICES IN AN URBAN SETTING: SANTIAGO DE CHILE, c. 1773-1822

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Cussen ◽  
Manuel Llorca-Jaña ◽  
Federico Droller
Keyword(s):  
Important Determinant ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Female Slaves ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis paper provides the first survey of slave prices for Santiago de Chile, c. 1773-1822. It also establishes the main determinants of slave prices during this period. We gathered and analysed over 3,800 sale operations. Our series confirm the usual inverted U-shape when prices are plotted against age, and that age was a very important determinant of slave prices. We also found that: female slaves were systematically priced over male slaves, quite contrary to what happened in most other markets; the prime age of Santiago slaves was 16-34, a younger range than for most other places; male slave prices moved in the same direction as real wages of unskilled workers; and the impact of the free womb law on market prices in 1811 was dramatic.

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