Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Closing the Affordable Housing Gap: Identifying the Barriers Hindering the Sustainable Design and Construction of Affordable Homes

Identifying the Barriers Hindering the Sustainable Design and Construction of Affordable Homes Despite the commitment of the United Nations (UN) to provide everyone with equal access to basic services, the cons...

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Affordable Housing & Gentrification

Affordable Housing & Gentrification The Cities of Venice, IL, Madison, IL, and the Village of Brooklyn, IL, have recently begun undertaking community revitalization efforts, with affordable housing being a ...

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Incentivizing Housing Production: State Laws from Across the Country to Encourage or Require Municipal Action

Incentivizing Housing Production For decades, the United States has produced housing at a rate inadequate to account for growth in population and the nation’s wealth. This underproduction is national and has re...

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Critical success factor of PPP for affordable housing provision in Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Critical success factor of Public-Private Partnerships PPP for affordable housing provision Saudi Arabia recently established public-private partnerships (PPPs) to increase the private sector’s involvement in f...

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Renovating Space to Age in Place: Experiences of Elderly Residents Living through Public Housing Renovations and Reflections from Affordable Housing Developers

Experiences of Elderly Residents Living through Public Housing Renovations and Reflections from Affordable Housing Developers In this article, we explore the experiences of older adults living in public housing...

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Mitigating the Portland Housing Crisis: Analyzing How the City of Portland’s Policies Can Better Facilitate Continuous Affordable Housing Development

Analyzing How the City of Portland’s Policies Can Better Facilitate Continuous Affordable Housing Development In this thesis, I ask: What policies should the City of Portland, Oregon, enact to increase th...

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Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation Disparities in access to safe, affordable, and adequate housing contribute to health inequities worldwide. Today’s housing disparit...

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Nigerian Urbanization and the Significance of Affordable Housing

Nigerian Urbanization and the Significance of Affordable Housing This article explores the significance of affordable housing in the context of Nigerian urbanization. With rapid urbanization taking place in Nig...

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The Residual Income Approach to Housing Affordability: The Theory and the Practice

The Residual Income Approach to Housing Affordability The residual income approach to housing affordability looks at what different household types can afford to spend on housing after taking into account the o...

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Sustainable Design and Thermal Comfort Strategy: Cases of Urban “Affordable Housing” in Nepal

Sustainable Design and Thermal Comfort Strategy Affordable housing is commonly considered on a cost basis, while environmental and social issues are thought to be addressed separately or ignored. Housing planne...

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Strengthening the Capacity of the Housing Sector in Iraq

Strengthening the Capacity of the Housing Sector in Iraq The UN Iraq Trust Fund has funded the Strengthening the Capacity of the Housing Sector in Iraq project and seeks to build capacity among Iraqi central an...

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Prioritizing Requirements for Sustainable Affordable Housing in Iraq

Prioritizing Requirements for Sustainable Affordable Housing in Iraq This paper aims to highlight the crucial issues that should be addressed when it is required to achieve sustainability through affordable hou...

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A Consumer and Investment Model of Housing Demand in Iran: Estimation and Policy Implication

A Consumer and Investment Model of Housing Demand in Iran This paper presents a study of the housing demand in Iran according to the consumer and investment approach from 1995 to 2011. The first approach is bas...

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Feasibility of Application of Modern Tehran Redevelopment Company (TRC) in Iran

Feasibility of Application of Modern Methods of Construction in Iran Various plans and policies have been adopted by the Iranian Government to address the housing shortages in Iran. Some of these policies have ...

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Megastructure Reloaded: A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran

A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran Under the USA’s free-market foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tehran Redevelopment Company (TRC) in collaboration with a New York f...

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Economic Performance of the Housing Sector in Iran

Economic Performance of the Housing Sector in Iran Housing forms an important sector of the national economy and is the largest component of household net wealth in most countries. In this study, Data Envelopme...

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Rising Construction Costs and the Residential Real Estate Market in Ireland

Rising construction costs and the residential real estate market in Ireland Construction costs are a key factor to consider when analyzing the residential real estate market in Ireland given their impact on hou...

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Comparison of the Costs of Site-Built and Manufactured Housing

Comparison of the Costs of Site-Built and Manufactured Housing Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low-and moderate-income house...

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Research on Cost Control of Construction Project Based on the Theory of Lean Construction and BIM: Case Study

Research on Cost Control of Construction Project Based on the Theory of Lean Construction and BIM Lean construction is a new management mode for construction projects that is especially suitable for complex, ch...

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Affordable Housing in Nigeria

Affordable Housing in Nigeria This publication is aimed at companies that are already involved in the Nigerian affordable housing market or are thinking about entering the market. Even though the affordable hou...

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Affordable Housing Assessment State of Utah 2017

Affordable Housing Assessment State of Utah 2017 Affordable housing policies and adequate housing development are swelling public policy concerns for many Utahns. The demand for affordable housing throughout th...