Background Vietnam has experienced a strong wave of migrants to urban and industrialized areas. This is a challenge for both local and national governments, which need to address the problems of the poor and socially marginalized, including providing housing for rural-to-urban migrants. Poor housing and the economic burden of house renting are increasingly recognized as determinants of both phy...

Development of science and technology and the growing trend of globalization has pushed the urban communities toward competition on absorbing foreign capitals and construction of macro-scale projects. This competition has affected not only developed countries but also developing countries such as Iran- since it is expected that each urban development will finally result in an increase in the qu...

This research investigates the relationship between housing wealth and residential satisfaction. Using household panel survey data from UK, we find that individuals’ asymmetric responses to changes in distribution, is, loss aversion experienced by worse-off group, could offset gain an increase at aggregate level. Consequently, growth does not necessarily improve satisfaction for society as a wh...

PURPOSE Our purpose in this study was to explore relationships between aspects of objective and perceived housing in five European samples of very old adults, as well as to investigate whether cross-national comparable patterns exist. DESIGN AND METHODS We utilized data from the first wave of the ENABLE-AGE Survey Study. The five national samples totalled 1,918 individuals aged 75 to 89 years...

This paper analyzes subjective well-being in Romania in 2001, 11 years after the collapse of the communism and the beginning of the transition to a market economy. Using a survey among 1770 individuals, we analyze the effects of various variables on self-reported measures of life satisfaction, and find that life satisfaction increases with housing standard, health status, economic situation, ed...

Prioritizing of environmental and socio-cultural factors the community in housing design will be able to create a home that is natural flexible with various conditions lives its occupants from time time. Thus, provide comfort satisfaction occupants. This study aims review identify concept traditional Malay houses suitable applied modern development towards improving occupant’s aspects The liter...

This research used neural networks to develop a decision support system, and model the relationship between one’s living environment and residential satisfaction. Residential satisfaction was investigated at two affordable housing multifamily rental properties located in Atlanta, Georgia. The neural network was trained using data from Defoors Ferry Manor and the network was validated using data...

The aim of this article is to introduce an integrative and more comprehensive approach to understanding and measuring perceived housing in old age. First, four conceptual domains of subjective housing were introduced, based on the assumption that each of the domains brings a unique perspective to the understanding of perceived housing: housing satisfaction, usability in the home, meaning of hom...

Using the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), I investigated the impact of family-friendly policies (FFPs) on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the private sector of South Korea. Paid leave, childcare leave, and support for housing are positively related to both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Sick leave is positively related to organizational commitment...