Tag: Housing

Free Download On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Atlantic Editions) by Jerusalem Demsas
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1638931968 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 0.47 MB
A rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine’s 167-year archive.

Free Download Demographic Change and Housing Wealth:: Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe By John Doling, Marja Elsinga (auth.)
2013 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 9400743831 | PDF | 2 MB
Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the proportion of people buying their own home in most countries has risen, so that some two-thirds of European households now own their homes. Housing equity now considerably exceeds total European GDP. This book discusses questions like: to what extent might home ownership provide a potential cure for some of the consequences of ageing populations by realizing housing equity in order to meet the consumption needs of older people? What does this mean for patterns of inheritance and longer-term inequalities across Europe? And to what extent are governments banking on their citizens utilising their housing wealth now and in the future?

Free Download Sam Tsemberis Ph.D., "Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders"
English | ISBN: 1616496495 | 2015 | 263 pages | PDF | 84 MB
Housing First is simple: provide housing first, and then combine that housing with supportive treatment services in mental and physical health, substance abuse, education, and employment.

Free Download ADUs: The Perfect Housing Solution by Sheri Koones
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1423665252 | 224 pages | MOBI | 51 Mb
"A beautiful book for readers researching affordable options for chic yet environmentally friendly ADU construction."―Library Journal

Free Download Housing and Finance in Developing Countries By Kavita Datta, Gareth Jones
1998 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 041517242X | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon the lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices. Both public and private formal finance institutions have experienced great difficulty in lending below a middle-income client group, and are often reluctant to lend for the purpose of housing at all. This failure of formal finance to filter down to low-income households, and in particular to women, has led various NGOs and community groups to create and adopt innovative finance programmes, such as informal savings banks and credit rotating schemes. The authors critically assess the impact of theses schemes, and evaluate links between gender, housing and finance.

Free Download Inclusive Housing Management and Community Wellbeing: A Case Study of Hong Kong by Kwok-yu Edward Lee , Wai-wan Vivien Chan
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 356 Pages | ISBN : 9819721318 | 32 MB
This book examines the contributory role of inclusive housing management services in safeguarding the living environment, empowering neighborhoods, sustaining lovable home, building social capital, fostering community wellbeing and social sustainability from the perspective of the sociology of housing. By repositioning professional housing management as an important driving force in community building, this book argues that the community-initiated inclusive housing management model has been acting as a cornerstone in enhancing a sense of belonging, cultural renewal, environmental sustainability, social integration and community cohesion particularly in cities with high density and compact development. This case study in Hong Kong will make an important contribution to interdisciplinary research in urban sociology, business management, community development, leadership building and environmental health. This study also contributes to the international literature on the dynamics of neighborhood and community governance by addressing the concrete local community initiatives and collaborative management practices in meeting the ever-changing environmental, social and health risks in Hong Kong and beyond. It will be of value to scholars researching on housing management and inclusive community building in world cities globally.

Free Download The Vienna Model 2: Housing for the City of the 21st Century
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3868595767 | 244 pages | True PDF | 51.51 MB
Vienna is known throughout the world as the capital of social housing. Since the 1920s, the Austrian metropolis has indeed developed a unique system of subsidized housing construction independently of the "free" market, accommodating more than 60 percent of its population today. The Vienna Model 2. Housing for the City of the 21st Century, which is the book accompanying the successful exhibition of the same name, analyzes the latest developments in housing and documents 50 projects in Vienna from recent years. It shows how technical, ecological, and social qualities are continuously developed further as part of a broad participatory process, thereby setting new standards. The spectrum ranges from the revitalization of neighborhoods to the planning of new city districts. Moreover, The Vienna Model 2 describes the international building exhibition IBA_Vienna 2022 with the theme "New Social Housing." In parallel, Sorcha Edwards and Cédric Van Styvendael analyze the current challenges and possible solutions to the issue of housing in the European Union. Sasha Tsenkova, in turn, presents the Canadian approaches to creating affordable living space. The essay by Mladen Jadric provides an overview of social housing in China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and South Korea. William Menking analyzes New York’s public housing and its relation to Vienna. With 250 illustrations and graphics, the status quo for building innovative Viennese housing forms is captured in this volume.

Free Download Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LZF938 | 2024 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that’s been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up. This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals. Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country’s neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.

Free Download When Housing Markets Meet Shadow Banking : Bubbles, Mortgages, Securitization, and Fintech (361 Pages)
by Rose Neng Lai & Robert A Van Order
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9811283877 | 362 pages | True PDF | 18.94 MB

Free Download Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis by Charles L. Marohn, Jr., Daniel Herriges
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1119984521 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.02 MB
Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.