Over time, the economic and social conditions determined expansion contraction processes of domestic space (from cave to castle, from castle studio flat) with important consequences on people’s life quality. This evolution stimulated development cultural debates design experiments theme flexibility. In contemporary scenario, flexibility has a big value because it represents an strategy meet nee...

Apart from being perennially underfunded in a country recording rapid population growth, public housing policy is rarely innovative or exciting interest. There is a story, however, in Victoria that needs to be broadcast and given some fanfare. It concerns a social initiative by a volunteer group in the field of affordable housing aimed at the marginalised. It is a scheme, too, that receives lit...

In the aftermath of catastrophic natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes, emergency management agencies come under intense pressure to provide temporary housing to address the large-scale displacement of the vulnerable population. Temporary housing is essential to enable displaced families to reestablish their normal daily activities until permanent housing solutions can ...

A central principle underlying government policy is to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. In particular, there has been a long-standing policy to reduce admissions to care homes. Extra care housing is a development of sheltered housing that aims to meet the housing, care and support needs of older people, while helping them to maintain their inde...

Housing can be considered as one of the most important needs of each family and the provision ofsuitable housing for people has always been considered as one of the indicators of progress in any country. Because ofthe specific attitude to the issue of housing in Iran, in other words, turning it into an investment, the major part of thehouseholds' income has been accounted for housing. Given the...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to examine the role of gender as it relates to access to housing among individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) in Canada. DESIGN An exploratory, qualitative approach was used to assess the perspectives of Canadian housing experts. The focus of inquiry was on the role of gender and associated intersections (eg, ethnicity) in pathways to housing access a...