The impact of living in public rental housing on employment has been the subject of much debate internationally. Theory suggests that restrictions on residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and the place-based housing subsidy itself contribute to the higher rates of unemployment often observed among public housing tenants. However, recent evidence from Europe and Australia show that when pr...

In this paper, aimed as a background for further research, the author examines the effect of urbanisation on housing for the low income earners in Kampala. The author discusses Kampala’s housing environment by looking at low-income earners’ access to housing in the city under conditions of rapid population rise, growing housing demand, rising land prices and growing poverty. Findings show that ...

The exemption of student housing from the BC Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) in 2002 left thousands of student tenants without rental rights. In the wake of this legislative change, student housing contracts have become one-sided, without due attention to procedural fairness, and often ignoring the rights of the tenant, in favour of the institution. These contracts treat student housing as univer...

The construction industry in the United States has experienced a remarkable downturn in the past five years. In the mid 1980s, new housing starts averaged nearly 1.8 million per year, slightly below the record pace of 2 million per year in the late 1970s. By 1991, however, the number of new housing starts was just above 1 million. The share of GNP devoted to residential investment fell to 3.3 p...

The household's decision to invest in a home is complicated by the fact that owner-occupied housing plays a dual role as both a physical good generating housing services, and as a component of the wealth portfolio. For many homeowners, housing represents both the largest single element of the monthly expenditure, and the most important asset in the wealth portfolio. Given the availability of re...

Over the past year, there has been a very sharp rise in loan approvals for investors in housing, with the result that investors now account for over 40 per cent of all housing loans approved. This represents the continuation of a decade-long trend which has seen the share of investor loans in total housing loans more than double since the early 1990s (Graph 1). This strong growth in borrowing b...

This paper examines geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and America. Americans downsize housing much more than the British largely because Americans are much more mobile. The principal reasons for greater mobility among older Americans are two fold: (1) greater spatial distribution of geographic distribution of amenities (such as warm weather) and housing costs a...

Since 1978, China has embarked on the ambitious transition from a planned economy toward a market economy, which has resulted in profound changes in every aspect of the society, including the provision and consumption of housing. With privatization in the housing system and the emergence of a housing market, the rate of homeownership in urban China has sky-rocketed from around 20% in the 1980s ...