Decarbonising housing is a key UK government policy to mitigate climate change. Using discourse analysis, we assess how low carbon housing is portrayed within British broadsheet media. Three distinct storylines were identified. Dominating the discourse, Zero carbon housing promotes new-build, low carbon houses as offering high technology solutions to the climate problem. Retrofitting homes emph...

Evictions, perhaps more than other civil remedies for controlling crime and disorder in public housing, have seized the attention of policy makers and housing directors during the 1990s. Nonetheless, public housing authorities have been slow to enforce the federal "one strike" policy, which grants site managers the authority to evict suspected offenders after an administrative hearing, without ...

This thesis investigates management change in housing associations in London since the Housing Act of 1988. Previous work on housing management has tended to focus on the adoption of new public management principles, assuming that policy from 1988 has resulted in a cultural shift towards individualism. This study makes use of ‘grid-group’ cultural theory to challenge this assumption by tracking...

This review paper traces the origin of formal urban housing problems in Kenya. It indicates that formal urban housing problems have their origins in the colonial period where discriminatory policies led to the skewed housing provision. The problems were further compounded during the post-colonial period, where the independence government operated for a long time without an explicit policy on ho...

Recent years have seen an increased focus on the role of house construction and retrofitting within the broader agenda of sustainable development and climate change. To date this focus has largely targeted middleand upper-income residential neighborhoods in urban areas. However, in the United States, and in middle developing countries such as Brazil and Mexico, there is growing recognition that...

BACKGROUND Tenants in multiunit housing are at elevated risk for exposure to secondhand smoke at home because of smoke migration from other units. COMMUNITY CONTEXT In 2004, tobacco control advocates in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area began to address this issue by launching a campaign to work with landlord and tenant advocates, private- and public-sector property managers, and other ...

This is an interesting paper on a timely topic. As the authors argue, the recent global financial crisis has its roots in increased mortgage delinquencies caused by the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States. By what mechanism does such an increase in mortgage delinquencies affect the rest of the economy? And how should policy react to it? To address these issues, the authors devel...

This article evaluates the Global South housing policy for low-income earners by utilising Nigerian example to analyse public strategies used provide earners. The materials employed in study were programme documents provided various ministries that are linked between 1991 and 2020. subjected qualitative content thematic analysis. analysis of selected showed seven key intended strengthen afforda...

Ageing population in Australia is exerting unprecedented changes in housing demand, location of housing and appropriate dwelling types. Availability of suitable, comfortable, affordable and accessible housing is important for older people, and will be a priority as the population in Australia ages. Current planning policy settings and reliance on market forces for housing provision is unlikely ...