scholarly journals Influence of External Environmental Factors on the Success of Public Housing Projects in Developing Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mukhtar Musa ◽  
Roslan Bin Amirudin ◽  
Trevor Sofield ◽  
Mohammed Aminu Musa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Public Housing Project

External environmental factors, which include political environment, economic environment and social environment, affect the success of public housing projects in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to establish the effect of these factors on public housing project success using structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques.  The study was conducted in Nigeria by means of interviews, a pilot study and a main survey. Five hundred and fifty (550) questionnaires were administered to construction professionals who work as developers, consultants or contractors and those working in public housing agencies. Two hundred and seventy-six (276) questionnaires were returned completed.  The data collected were analysed by means of SEM. The results reveal that (i) the economics factor significantly affects public housing project success, (ii) the social factor significantly affects public housing project success, and (iii) the political factor significantly affects public housing project success. The study developed a comprehensive model that can assist housing policy makers, consultants, developers, contractors and other stakeholders in the planning and development of public housing programmes. 

scholarly journals The Success Criteria of Public Housing Project in Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Mohammed Mukhtar ◽  
Roslan Amirudin
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance

There is no consensus among researchers of what constitutes projects success; every project type may have different success criteria. Identifying project success criteria at the initial stage of a project can contribute to effective utilization of resources. The aim of this study is to establish the criteria for measuring public housing project success in Nigeria. The data collection was carried out in Nigeria by means of structured interviews with ten experts in housing, a pilot survey and questionnaire survey.  A questionnaire survey was carried out in which 550 questionnaires were administered to construction professionals who involve in public housing projects, in order to elicit their perceptions on success criteria for public housing projects. The sample was drawn using purposive sampling method since there is no sample frame of people with experience in public housing. Two hundred and seventy six questionnaires (276) were returned completed representing 50.2% response rate. The data collected were analysed using structural equation modelling technique. The results reveal six criteria for measuring public housing project management success, these are client’s satisfaction, project completed on time, project completed to specified quality standard, absence of disputes, safety, and completion within budget. The results also reveal four criteria for measuring public housing product success which include meeting the project purpose, end users’ satisfaction, environmental impact and aesthetic appearance of the . Understanding the findings of this study by policy makers and project managers can improve effectiveness and efficiency of public housing projects in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Project governance practices in urban public housing projects: a case study of public housing in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Latiff ◽  
Aini Jaapar ◽  
Che Maznah Mat Isa
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Governance Practices

The urban public housing project, especially for low-income people, is essential to cater to the increasing urbanisation rate in Malaysia. This study aimed to gain an understanding of the project governance practices in urban public housing projects in Malaysia, which will lead to better project delivery and the successful outcome of the projects. A single case study was conducted on a public housing project or known as Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) in Kuala Lumpur, and data for this study was gathered using semi-structured interviews with six (6) public officials, document analysis, and observation. The findings of this study indicate the positive interplay between project actors guided by the elements of trust, stakeholder management, empowerment, and collective decision making, which create value for the project. Hence, this article contributes to the dynamic understanding of how public officials practice project governance in conducting their works related to urban public housing projects. The findings of the study will enable related public organisations to reinforce the underlying project governance elements towards the strengthening of urban public housing delivery system. Case study research in different models of urban public housing could extend the discovery of other project governance elements while validating the findings of this study from different perspectives. The findings of the study are limited due to the use of a single case study related to the urban public housing project and its contexts.

‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe using space syntax

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Mark David Major
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Charles Jencks

Pruitt-Igoe, in St Louis, Missouri, United States, was one of the most notorious social housing projects of the twentieth century. Charles Jencks argued opening his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, ‘Modern Architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite.’ However, the magazine Architectural Forum had heralded the project as ‘the best high apartment’ of the year in 1951. Indeed, one of its first residents in 1957 described Pruitt-Igoe as ‘like an oasis in a desert, all of this newness’. But a later resident derided the housing project as ‘Hell on Earth’ in 1967. Only eighteen years after opening, the St Louis Public Housing Authority (PHA) began demolishing Pruitt-Igoe in 1972 [1]. It remains commonly cited for the failures of modernist design and planning.

The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Housing Growth

Chapters 8 and 9 consider the case of Tucson, which reveals a third possible approach to public housing governance and redevelopment, typifying the Publica Major constellation. This shows what can happen when responsibility for public housing remains more wholly vested in a well-functioning public sector, subject neither to the whims of private developers, as in New Orleans, nor to the sway of empowered low-income tenants, as in Boston. Chapter 8 narrates the complex and reluctant emergence of Tucson’s two-hundred-unit Connie Chambers public housing project, completed in 1967 as a supplement to an earlier project known as La Reforma. Public housing growth remained inseparable from the deeply contested process of urban renewal that decimated eighty acres of the Mexican American downtown barrio and purged its residents. Those contemplating redevelopment of Connie Chambers, which was forged in lingering controversy, knew that they could not repeat the earlier ethnically motivated displacement.

scholarly journals Bringing Researchers And Community Developers Together To Revitalize A Public Housing Project And Improve Health

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 2072-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas P. Jutte ◽  
Kaja Z. LeWinn ◽  
Malo A. Hutson ◽  
Ramie Dare ◽  
Janet Falk
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Improve Health

Emerging Spaces of Neoliberalism: A Gated Town and a Public Housing Project in İstanbul

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 5-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayfer Bartu Candan ◽  
Biray Kolluoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
Urban Fear ◽  
Urban Marginality ◽  
The City

Abstractİstanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decades. In this paper, we focus on two urban spaces that we argue to have emerged as part of this process—namely Göktürk, a gated town, and Bezirganbahçe, a public housing project. We examine these spaces as showcases of new forms of urban wealth and poverty in İstanbul, demonstrating the workings of the neoliberalization process and the forms of urbanity that emerge within this context. These are the two margins of the city whose relationship with the center is becoming increasingly tenuous in qualitatively different yet parallel forms. In Göktürk's segregated compounds, where urban governance is increasingly privatized, non-relationality with the city, seclusion into the domestic sphere and the family, urban fear and the need for security, and social and spatial isolation become the markers of a new urbanity. In Bezirganbahçe, involuntary isolation and insulation, and non-relationality with the city imposed through the reproduction of poverty create a new form of urban marginality marked by social exclusion and ethnic tensions. The new forms of wealth and poverty displayed in these two urban spaces, accompanied by the social and spatial segregation of these social groups, compel us to think about future forms of urbanity and politics in İstanbul.

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