scholarly journals Home Safety and Low-Income Urban Housing Quality

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Gielen ◽  
W. Shields ◽  
E. McDonald ◽  
S. Frattaroli ◽  
D. Bishai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Home Safety

Climate Change, Heat Waves and Thermal Comfort—Reflections on Housing Policy in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darshini Mahadevia ◽  
Minal Pathak ◽  
Neha Bhatia ◽  
Shaurya Patel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Heat Exposure ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Housing ideally supplies many physical comforts, social and economic benefits, as well as forms the basis for the right to the city. It also addresses an additional challenge of adaptation to the current as well as expected impacts of climate change—one of them being heat waves—especially in the context of developing countries like India. Few studies in the Indian context have explicitly examined the experience of heat on the indoor temperatures linked to the housing quality and typologies and the quality of the surroundings. Official state and urban policies do not explicitly include heatproofing for existing or new housing to address indoor heat exposure, especially in the case of vulnerable populations. We have measured the indoor and outdoor temperatures in 860 low-income residents living in three different housing typologies in 26 settlements (formal and informal) of Ahmedabad, India, in peak summer months. Building the case for a long-term urban housing strategy to address the impact of indoor temperature particularly for low-income households and residents of informal housing, we argue that conscious and deliberate efforts towards heatproofing existing informal housing are required. One of the options, which is being pursued currently, is transiting informal housing dwellers to formal housing. But, another one for immediate consideration is renewal of current informal housing due to limited coverage possibility of the first option.

Abatement of cockroach allergens (Bla g 1 and Bla g 2) in low-income, urban housing☆Month 12 continuation results

2004 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel J Arbes ◽  
Michelle Sever ◽  
Jigna Mehta ◽  
J.Chad Gore ◽  
Coby Schal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Housing

scholarly journals An evaluation of the self-help housing scheme in Botswana, case of Gaborone city

Spatium ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 28-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horatio Ikgopoleng ◽  
Branko Cavric
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Botswana like other developing countries faces a problem of acute shortage of housing, particularly for low-income urban families. The current housing problems are the outcomes of the economic, demographic and social changes which the country has experienced since independence in 1966. In particular the urbanization process which surfaced in the early 1980?s. The government has sought to cope with the problem of low-income urban housing by establishing a Self-Help Housing (SHHA) program in the main urban centers. The evaluation findings reveal that, on the whole, the impact of the SHHA approach on the improvement of low-income urban housing has been unsuccessful. The major problems of the scheme are lack of serviced land and inadequate finances for plot development. This has been exacerbated by the high urban development standards which are out of the reach of low-income urban families. The evaluation study also reveals that, there are some indications of non low-income urban households living in SHHA areas. The available evidence reveals that the number of those people in SHHA areas is not as big as has been speculated by most people in the country. However this paper calls for more investigation in this issue and a need for more tight measures to control this illicit practice. The major conclusions are that housing policies in Botswana are not supportive of the general housing conditions in low-income urban areas. Therefore there is a need for urban planners and policy makers of Botswana to take more positive action towards the improvement of low-income urban areas. This would require pragmatic policies geared towards the improvement of those areas. .

Home Safety Practices in an Urban Low-Income Population

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 1119-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois K. Lee ◽  
Taranjeev Walia ◽  
Peter W. Forbes ◽  
Stavroula K. Osganian ◽  
Ronald Samuels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Home Safety ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Low Income Population

The Housing Triangulation: A Discourse on Quality, Affordability and Lifestyles in India

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Urmi Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Structural Patterns ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
Housing Standards

Since 1991 with the advent of globalization and economic liberalisation, basic conceptual and discursive changes are taking place in housing sector in India. The new changes suggest how housing affordability, quality and lifestyles reality is shifting for various segments of the population. Such shift not only reflects structural patterns but also stimulates an ongoing transition process. The paper highlights a twin impetus that continue to shape the ongoing transition: expanding middle class and their wealth - a category with distinctive lifestyles, desires and habits and corresponding ‘market defining’ of affordable housing standards - to articulate function of housing as a conceptualization of social reality in modern India. The paper highlights the contradictions and paradoxes, and the manner in which the concept of affordability, quality and lifestyles are embedded in both discourse and practice in India. The housing ‘dream’ currently being packaged and fed through to the middle class population has an upper middle class bias and is set to alienate those at the lower end of the middle-and low-income population. In the context of growing agreement and inevitability of market provision of ‘affordable housing’, the unbridled ‘market-defining’ of housing quality and lifestyles must be checked.

scholarly journals Housing Workers’ Evaluations of Residential Environmental Quality in South Korean Welfare Housing for Low-Income, Single-Parent Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5599
Author(s):  
Minjung Cho
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Family Privacy

This study evaluates the spatial conditions of the residential environment in welfare housing built for low-income, single-parent (LISP) families in South Korea to reveal the significant residential environmental (RE) design criteria concerning housing quality and family well-being. The primary data were analyzed by surveying 30 housing directors from 29 welfare residences, in conjunction with facility visits and interviews. The survey data were supplemented by interviewing 11 stakeholders, including government institute officials, project architects, and former residents who exited the program. A statistical analysis examined the RE quality in relation to building and resident features. Most respondents reported insufficient physical quality, specifically due to inappropriate units in size and number; poor indoor noise control; and substandard unit rooms, children’s rooms, and outdoor spaces. Furthermore, adequate rooms, family privacy, and a pleasant indoor environment (i.e., noise barrier, thermal comfort) were the most critical spatial design criteria. Particularly, the aforementioned housing environmental attributes were found to be different depending on a building’s construction year and type, householder type and age, and children’s age. Practical and methodological implications and future research directions are discussed to elevate the housing quality and sustainable well-being in welfare housing.

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