scholarly journals The barriers faced by recent immigrant women in Hamilton and Toronto's rental housing markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Gail Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Housing Corporation ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Rental Housing Market

The overall purpose of this paper is to add to the existing body of literature on the housing situation and needs of recent immigrant households by placing the unique experiences of recent immigrant women at the centre of the study. It will begin with a review of the existing literature on immigration and housing, with a particular focus on the barriers facing newcomers in the rental housing market. Based on data from Statistics Canada, the Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), studies conducted by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and interviews with persons with demonstrated knowledge of the barriers facing newcomer women searching for adequate, suitable and affordable housing, this paper aims to provide an overview of the difficulties that many newcomer women face in their search for and retention of housing in Hamilton and Toronto. It also includes a series of recommendations addressing some of these barriers.

scholarly journals The barriers faced by recent immigrant women in Hamilton and Toronto's rental housing markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Gail Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Housing Corporation ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Rental Housing Market

The overall purpose of this paper is to add to the existing body of literature on the housing situation and needs of recent immigrant households by placing the unique experiences of recent immigrant women at the centre of the study. It will begin with a review of the existing literature on immigration and housing, with a particular focus on the barriers facing newcomers in the rental housing market. Based on data from Statistics Canada, the Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), studies conducted by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and interviews with persons with demonstrated knowledge of the barriers facing newcomer women searching for adequate, suitable and affordable housing, this paper aims to provide an overview of the difficulties that many newcomer women face in their search for and retention of housing in Hamilton and Toronto. It also includes a series of recommendations addressing some of these barriers.

scholarly journals Rental Housing in Russia: Background, Problems and Development Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Kubasova ◽  
Lyudmila Kaverzina ◽  
Galina Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Mortgage Lending ◽  
Alternative Mechanism ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Rental Housing Market

The main provisions of the Strategy for the Development of the Housing Sphere of the Russian Federation until 2025, which radically changed the state's ap-proach to the mechanism of providing the Russian population with affordable housing, are analyzed. It is noted that along with the traditional mechanism of providing the population with affordable housing through the mechanism of mortgage lending, an alternative mechanism is introduced -the provision of rental housing through a commercial and non-commercial format. The analysis of the legal framework of rental relations (employment relations) in the housing sector indicates the absence of a unified approach to the use of basic concepts (rent, hire, commercial rent) in relation to the problem under consideration. The author analyzes the historical and global experience in solving the housing problem for people with low incomes who are unable to improve their living conditions with the help of a loan secured by the acquired property. Based on the analysis of statistical data, the prerequisites for the formation of a civilized rental housing market in Russia and the Irkutsk region are considered and the main development trends are identified.

Real and fake data in Shanghai’s informal rental housing market: Groundtruthing data scraped from the internet

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gabriele Harten ◽  
Annette M Kim ◽  
J Cressica Brazier
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Preference Order ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Real Market ◽  
Rental Housing Market ◽  
Mega Cities

China’s planned mega-cities contain hidden, informal housing markets. We analyse Shanghai’s ‘group rental’ market in which formal commercial and residential units have been illegally converted into extremely crowded dormitories. In 2016, we collected more than 33,000 online classified advertisements for beds in group rental apartments and find that this market serves a specific demographic with robust preference order patterns. Furthermore, groundtruthing fieldwork revealed that the scraped online data misrepresented the market. Therefore, we also collected a second set of ‘real’ market data for comparative analysis. The study highlights both the exciting possibilities and the limitations of using online content to study informality.

scholarly journals The implementation of a century foreign experience of affordable housing in construction management - a new format of economy in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Leyla Leonova ◽  
Anatoly Fedorov ◽  
Tomash Czerny
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rental Housing Market ◽  
The Eu

The article is devoted to the formation and history of the creation of a unique organizational model for managing the construction of affordable (social) housing on the example of the capital of Austria. The relevance of the functioning of such a model is indisputable, since at present, multiscale migration processes are taking place in large cities not only in the EU countries, but also in Russia. Moreover, migration takes place mainly from third world countries. In such conditions, there is an acute issue of providing the population with affordable, comfortable housing, without disturbing historical and architectural monuments. This model was formed and has been successfully operating in Vienna for over 100 years. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the main role in it is played by the municipal authorities. Exactly they create social programs in the field of housing construction and funding them. At the same time, the rental housing market is becoming more comfortable and of high quality. The principles of social justice in the housing market for socially disadvantaged groups of the population are observed. This model of the functioning and formation of the affordable housing market in Vienna, according to the authors of the article, personifies the formation and functioning of the socio-economic cluster in the housing and communal sector. Of course, such a positive experience of providing the country's citizens with affordable and comfortable apartments is possible and necessary to apply in Russia.

scholarly journals Inclusionary Housing: An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Juan Yan ◽  
Marietta Haffner ◽  
Marja Elsinga
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Inclusionary Housing ◽  
The Cost

Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from a governance perspective. Since IH is about involving private actors in affordable housing production, the governance point of view of cooperating governmental and non-governmental actors governing society to achieve societal goals is highly relevant. The two most important elements of governance—actors and interrelationships among these actors—are taken to build an analytical framework to explore and evaluate the governance of IH. Based on a research approach that combines a literature review and a case study of China, this paper concludes that the ineffective governance of Chinese IH is based on three challenges: (1) The distribution of costs and benefits across actors is unequal since private developers bear the cost, but do not enjoy the increments of land value; (2) there is no sufficient compensation for developers to offset the cost; and (3) there is no room for negotiations for flexibility in a declining market. Given that IH is favored in many Chinese cities, this paper offers the policy implications: local governments should bear more costs of IH, rethink their relations with developers, provide flexible compliance options for developers, and perform differently in a flourishing housing market and a declining housing market.

The Costs of Seeking Shelter for Renters With Discrediting Background Records

2021 ◽  
pp. 153568412110124
Author(s):  
Anna Reosti
Keyword(s):  
Financial Burden ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Housing Search ◽  
Housing Options ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Rental Housing Market

This study illuminates an understudied pathway through which disadvantage is reproduced in the rental housing market: the housing search, application, and tenant screening process. Using in-depth interviews with 25 housing-seekers with criminal conviction records, past evictions, and damaged credit histories, this article examines the direct role of the rental housing search and application process in reproducing economic precarity and social disadvantage among renters with discrediting background records, beyond delimiting their housing options. Its findings suggest that navigating the housing search from a position of acute market disadvantage comes with significant costs for this population, including the financial burden of repeated application fees and the psychological strains associated with the specter of indefinite housing insecurity. The findings also demonstrate how the housing search process may undermine the willingness of stigmatized renters to contest exploitative or unlawful rental practices by reinforcing awareness of their degraded status in the rental market.

scholarly journals Online rental housing market representation and the digital reproduction of urban inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Housing Search ◽  
Rental Housing Market

As the rental housing market moves online, the internet offers divergent possible futures: either the promise of more-equal access to information for previously marginalized homeseekers, or a reproduction of longstanding information inequalities. Biases in online listings’ representativeness could impact different communities’ access to housing search information, reinforcing traditional information segregation patterns through a digital divide. They could also circumscribe housing practitioners’ and researchers’ ability to draw broad market insights from listings to understand rental supply and affordability. This study examines millions of Craigslist rental listings across the USA and finds that they spatially concentrate and overrepresent whiter, wealthier, and better-educated communities. Other significant demographic differences exist in age, language, college enrollment, rent, poverty rate, and household size. Most cities’ online housing markets are digitally segregated by race and class, and we discuss various implications for residential mobility, community legibility, gentrification, housing voucher utilization, and automated monitoring and analytics in the smart cities paradigm. While Craigslist contains valuable crowdsourced data to better understand affordability and available rental supply in real time, it does not evenly represent all market segments. The internet promises information democratization, and online listings can reduce housing search costs and increase choice sets. However, technology access/preferences and information channel segregation can concentrate such information-broadcasting benefits in already-advantaged communities, reproducing traditional inequalities and reinforcing residential sorting and segregation dynamics. Technology platforms like Craigslist construct new institutions with the power to shape spatial economies, human interactions, and planners’ ability to monitor and respond to urban challenges.

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