The COST-Action (CA 18137) on Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe (MCMH-EU) has established a transnational scientific network to document the productions of middle-class mass housing built since 1950s order investigate this specific topic and share knowledge. Considering that dominates most our cities, research translates into study extensive development cities after World War II. breadth them...

The current trend in US public housing redevelopment is to replace existing high-rise, high density 'projects' with new lower density, mixed-income communities. The underlying assumption is that mixing together market rate and public housing units will result in social interaction of low-income and middle-income families, which in turn is to provide greater opportunities and reduce social isola...

Understanding the factors related to invasive exotic species distributions at broad spatial scales has important theoretical and management implications, because biological invasions are detrimental to many ecosystem functions and processes. Housing development facilitates invasions by disturbing land cover, introducing nonnative landscaping plants, and facilitating dispersal of propagules alon...

Many resort communities in the U.S. Rocky Mountain West are experiencing rapid inmigration and growth because the natural and built amenities in those areas attracted people and investment. This study uses an agent-based model to explore how homeowners’ investment and reinvestment decisions are influenced by the level of investment and amenities available in their neighborhoods in a case study ...

In pursuing the current housing policies, the government continues to focus on the needs of socially vulnerable people, making the new emphasis on resolving the housing problems of the bulk of working people who have middle income, savings, and homes in ownership after free privatization. The principal solution for these people is long-term mortgage lending, and this Concept reviews the possibi...

This study estimates and interprets the effects of macroeconomic and local housing market conditions on rents and occupancies in different segments of the multifamily rental housing market. The research uses longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of apartments drawn from the American Housing Survey to determine whether apartments of different quality grades are differentially...

Article history: Received 24 June 2010 Received in revised form 17 January 2012 Accepted 19 January 2012 Available online 27 January 2012 We build a panel of 14 emerging economies to estimate the magnitude of wealth effects on consumption. Usingmodern econometric techniques and quarterly data,we show that: (i)wealth effects are statistically significant and relatively large inmagnitude; (ii) st...