This research examines changes in residential built-environment flood exposure within the current boundaries of the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan statistical area, by estimating the number of housing units that are located within the floodplains of the region. Housing unit data at the block level from the 1990 to 2010 decennial censuses are used to estimate housing unit exposure to floods using...

OBJECTIVE Adverse living standards are associated with poorer child health and safety. This study investigates whether adverse housing and neighbourhood conditions contribute to explain country-level associations between a country's economic level and income inequality and child mortality, specifically injury mortality. DESIGN Ecological, cross-sectional study. SETTING/SUBJECTS Twenty-six E...

In New Zealand, as in many other countries, housing in the private-rental sector is in worse condition than in the owner-occupier housing sector. New Zealand residential buildings have no inspection regime after original construction signoff. Laws and regulations mandating standards for existing residential housing are outdated and spread over a range of instruments. Policies to improve standar...

The paper uses data from a household survey in Beijing to explore the impact of China’s two primary homeownership-oriented housing policies: the Housing Provident Fund (Zhufang Gongjijin) compulsory savings scheme and the subsidized construction of ‘affordable housing’ (Jingji Shiyong Fang). With respect to the former it attempts to establish whether owners that are beneficiaries of the program...

This is a study that deals with the creation of people’s lifestyle expectation, part of a broad investigation on the evolution of domestic space in Recife, Brazil. It is focused on the apartment building, nowadays the most popular middle-class housing form. It looks at the advertisement campaigns publicised by housing developers, with the interest to identify and describe the attributes used in...