Providing Post-Disaster Affordable Housing: Lessons from Housing Strategies in Low-Income Urban Neighbourhoods

Financing Affordable Housing for the Low-Income in Urban India

Introduction With vast investment and employment opportunities, India's urban areas have already become the engine of the country's development, drawing in everyone from the global real estate firm to the displaced marginal farmer. The World Bank estimates that urban areas currently house 32 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion, the highest proportion in Indian history.

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

The Implications of Post Disaster Recovery for Affordable Housing

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

Home safety and low-income urban housing quality.

OBJECTIVES Living in substandard housing may be one factor that increases the risk of fire and burn injuries in low-income urban environments. The purposes of this study are to (1) describe the frequency and characteristics of substandard housing in urban homes with young children and (2) explore the hypothesis that better housing quality is associated with a greater likelihood of having workin...