Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document

Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document The previous Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (AH SPD) was adopted by the North Somerset Council in June 2008. Since then, there have been a ...

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2017 Housing Affordability Response Team (HART) Recommendations

2017 Housing Affordability Response Team (HART) Recommendations Housing affordability is an essential part of every community’s infrastructure, serving as a platform for individuals and families to stabilize an...

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Affordable Housing in Rwanda: Opportunities, Options, and Challenges: Some Perspectives from the International Experience

Perspectives from the International Experience This paper summarizes presentations and discussions from Kigali’s National Forum on Urbanisation in Support of EDPRS. I start by considering the challenges Rwanda ...

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Affordable Housing Working Group

Affordable Housing Working Group The Working Group acknowledges that there are few issues more important to ensuring the welfare of Australians than housing. From a social perspective, housing provides a stable...

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What is affordable housing?

What is affordable housing? This briefing paper considers how affordable housing is defined in England and looks at key trends in the affordability of different tenure types. The need for subsidized housing pro...

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Getting Serious About Affordable Housing

Getting Serious About Affordable Housing This Paper draws upon the latest research to examine skyrocketing housing costs in Metro Vancouver and their contribution to growing inequality. Most of the recent headl...

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Evaluation of Affordable Housing Program in Papua New Guinea: A Case of Port Moresby

Evaluation of Affordable Housing Program in Papua New Guinea Providing affordable housing has been a long-standing issue for governments of most countries. In an attempt to address the issue, affordable housing...

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Shaping the Future of Construction A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology

Shaping the Future of Construction A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology The Engineering & Construction (E&C) industry strongly affects the economy, the environment, and society as a whole. It touche...

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Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Commercial Buildings

A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Commercial Buildings The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is improving its resource allocation process by doi...

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Roma Access to Quality and Affordable Housing in Albania

Roma access to quality and affordable housing in Albania Over the past decade, the Albanian Government has redoubled its efforts to enhance the quality of life and integrate the Roma and Egyptian minority commu...

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Modelling Housing Demand Factors for Affordable Units in Malaysia

Modeling Housing Demand Factors for Affordable Units in Malaysia The Malaysian government is prioritizing the development of affordable housing units to cater to the needs of the underprivileged. However, it is...

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Affordable Housing Development in the Nonprofit Sector: A Case Study of Rolland Curtis Gardens

Affordable Housing Development in the Nonprofit Sector The persistent challenge of providing affordable rental housing has been a longstanding concern for policymakers, government officials, and academics. The ...

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Inclusionary Housing in the United States: Dynamics of Local Policy and Out comes in Diverse Markets

Inclusionary Housing in the United States Inclusionary housing (IH) ties the creation of affordable, below-market-rate units with new development, and it is known to help address the affordable housing crisis a...

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Implementing net zero affordable housing — towards a human-centred approach

Implementing net zero affordable housing This paper reviews the UK Net Zero Strategy in conjunction with the decarbonization of the affordable housing sector, with a focus on the key stakeholders involved in th...

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How the FHFA Can Increase Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Investments

The FHFA Can Increase Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Investments The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has initiated a sweeping review of Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) Affordable Housing Inv...

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Developing Strategic Approaches to Infrastructure Planning

Developing Strategic Approaches to Infrastructure Planning This report explores the actual and potential use of strategic planning by governments in ITF member countries as a means of improving the quality of m...

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From Rebuilding Ireland to Housing for All: international and Irish lessons for tackling homelessness

International and Irish lessons for tackling homelessness policy A group of international researchers with experience in strategic analysis of homelessness policy, practice, and service programs were asked to r...

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Follow-up to The Country Profile on the Housing Sector

Follow-up to The Country Profile on the Housing Sector The follow-up workshop to the Country Profile on the Housing Sector – Albania was organized in Tirana, from 16 to 17 February 2004 at the invitation of the...

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Affordable Housing Policies: An Overview

Affordable Housing Policies As urban housing markets throughout the United States increasingly exhibit challenges of affordability, federal, state, and local governments have placed renewed emphasis on housing,...

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Affordable Housing Policy

Affordable Housing Policy Part A of this document sets out background information that provides a context to the Council’s Affordable Housing Policy, set out in Part B below. It sets out a definition and benchm...

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Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing The document is intended to support pre-application discussions and will inform all involved in development proposals. It deals specifically with the provision of affordable housing through B...