One commonly observed issue in the vast majority of Asian cities is economic growth that pushes land prices up, especially in urban and inner-city areas. Consequently, lowand middle-income households are priced out of land markets. As affordable housing in Asia is a serious and considerable challenge, governments have implemented housing programmes, policies and institutional arrangements to pr...

This data article describes a dataset of 1,668 cases representing self-reported assessments of housing inadequacy and perceived housing stress. The dataset also contains person-level and household-level demographic data to contextualize the above measures. A second supplemental file contains the text of the survey instrument. Discussion of theoretical background and measures development as well...

extended abstract 1. introduction after industrial revolution, complex economic and technical developments led to wide changes in the size of cities, the proportion of the population in urban areas, and the growth rate of urbanization (johnson, 1998). more than half of the world population currently lives in urban areas and the uncontrolled expansion of cities is becoming a global concern. it i...

Purpose The challenge of accessibility to adequate housing in several countries by a large percentage citizens has given rise different programs designed facilitate access affordable housing. In South Africa, the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) was created provides loans low- and middle-income earners. Thus, purpose this study evaluate implication macroeconomic risk elements on perf...

A necessary condition for justifying a policy such as subsidized low-income housing, either via tenant-based rental assistance or construction of public or private projects, is that it has a real effect on market outcomes. In this paper, we examine one aspect of the real effect of subsidized housing – does it increase the housing stock? If subsidized housing raises the quantity of occupied hous...

To make effective decisions, consumers, executives and policymakers must make predictions. However, most data sources, whether from the government or businesses, are available only after a substantial lag, at a high level of aggregation, and for a small set of variables that were defined in advance. This hampers real-time prediction. A critical advance in IT research has been the development of...

According to a report by world health organization (WHO) in 2018, the population of the elderly over 60 years will double from 2015 to 2050, and will increase between12% to 22%. Also, in 2050, 80 % of the elderly will be from low and middle-income countries. Though population changes toward aging has begun from developed countries such as Japan, but in the middle of the 20th century, the elderl...

Jafari-Shakib Reza, Rafiei Alireza, Ansari Mostafa, Khalilian Alireza, Hajilooi Mehrdad Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rasht Medical School, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht; Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Sari Medical School, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari; Department of Internal Medicine, Ekbatan Hospital, Medical School, University of...