INTRODUCTION There is a clear need for diverse, high quality housing that is not being met, and is not likely to be met through established methods. In Wales, we are building approximately half the new homes that are needed. Changing demographics mean that people need different forms of housing, in different locations. Much of the housing that is currently being built may not serve us well in t...

BACKGROUND Housing sheep in insulated, warm buildings, which is common in Norway, involves high buildings costs, but has not been reported to improve health and performance. Few studies have dealt with the association between housing and management and reproductive performance.Data on housing and management during the indoor period from a questionnaire were merged with herd level data from the ...

Numerous empirical studies have examined the effect of growth controls on housing prices.’ These studies have used many different techniques ranging from hedonic price model estimation to paired comparisons but have all come to the same conclusion: growth controls raise the price of housing. In theory, there are both demand and supply side explanations (which need not be mutually exclusive) for...

We examine the influences of urban redevelopment costs and land-use allocation efficiency and equity on the elasticity of housing development density with respect to urban demand shocks in the context of China’s urban growth from 1998 to 2004. We do so in an inter-city spatial equilibrium framework, where demand shocks are capitalized in urban land rent growth, which influences urban population...

In Great Britain the move away from rented accommodation to owner occupation is leaving behind a large group of households with low incomes, wages and hours of work, and high housing costs, who are increasingly in receipt of welfare transfers. The disparity along all of these dimensions between renters and owner occupiers has continued to grow since the 1970’s. The relationship between housing ...

In 1994, the Chinese government began a program that offered state employees living in state-owned housing the opportunity to buy their homes at subsidized prices. This paper analyzes the impact of housing policy and the creation of private property on individuals’ labor market decisions with a focus on entrepreneurship. Using the reform as an exogenous change in the mobility costs and credit c...

Chuck Newell and Michelle Heard For the third time in three years, Rice students will face an increase in food and housing costs. Strapped by the rising cost of food, utilities and labor, the Residential College Management Advisory Committee recommended a $200 increase in room and board to Dr. Hackerman last January 22. Room and board cost $1940 in 1977 and $1990 in 1978. Next year, student wil...

How did US housing markets articulate both with global financial flows and US domestic politics? During the long 1990s, the US economy benefited from a system of global financial arbitrage in which the US economy as a whole borrowed short term, at low interest rates, from the rest of the world, while lending back long term at higher returns. A temporarily self-sustaining housing market boom in ...