p>The provision of affordable housing for the low and middle-income class may enhance quality life this social group. In addition, cooperation from stakeholders must be greater in promoting houses market. However, low-profit margin other constraints reduced supply homes by developers. Therefore, research examines factors attributes that affect developers supplying houses. Total 120 responses...

Taiwan is affected by three primary types of natural disaster: typhoons, earthquakes, and floods. Natural disasters in Taiwan can cause human causalities and loss of housing. Therefore, a method for evaluating the severity of losses caused by natural disasters would be beneficial for disaster management institutes in Taiwan when developing further supply chain management (SCM) strategies. To ev...

The housing shortage has become a major political concern in Sweden and Germany. To ease tension on housing markets, both the Swedish and German central governments aim to extend housing supply and have highlighted type approval of multi-family housing as an important concept in the provision of affordable housing. The article outlines the role of serial housing construction in a historical as ...

This paper examines the role of local housing supply conditions for social capital investment. Using an instrumental variables approach and data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, it is documented that the positive link between homeownership and individual social capital investment is largely confined to more built-up neighborhoods (with more inelastic supply of new housing). T...

Providing affordable housing has been a long-standing issue for governments of most countries. In an attempt to address the issue, affordable housing programs have been introduced with the aim of improving household’s access to housing, as well as sustain their wellbeing. This paper reports on a study of the activities of affordable housing program (AHP) in Papua New Guinea (PNG), using Port Mo...

This paper defines housing flippers as home buyers and sellers whose trading is motivated by the capital gains accumulated within a short time period. Non-flippers are rental housing investors and owner occupiers. We attempt to offer an alternative explanation to housing market mis-pricing by scrutinizing their differential trading abilities and analyzing the positive feedbacks of non-flippers ...