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van der Laan, F.B. (author)The gap between the number of detailed satellite images (of e.g. Landsat) recorded and the number actually used is increasing rather than decreasing. A major cause for limited use of potentially available imagery is the cost. A complete range of national, continental and worldwide applications has not developed for that reason. A sketch is made...report 1987
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- Abeloos, A.L.M. (author), Mulder, M. (author), Van Paassen, R.M.M. (author) conference paper 2002
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Norris, M. (author), Coates, D. (author), Kane, F. (author)Workshop 3. Session B.conference paper 2006
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Kramer, B. (author)Papers workshops. In recent years, Dutch housing associations have introduced a number of innovative types of sale, having in common that a house is sold to the tenant at a discount. In this way, buying a house becomes affordable for lower-income households. On the other hand the housing association obtains cash, which can be used for (social)...conference paper 2008
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Nubi, T. (author), Oyalowo, B. (author)The aim of this paper is to show how the interplay between social needs and economic realities affects housing policy in developing countries. The paper addresses the very topical issue of housing finance policy for low-income dwellers in rapidly urbanizing African countries. The paper locates housing finance firmly within the neo-liberal...conference paper 2010
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Heylen, K. (author), Haffner, M. (author)In this paper the affordability of housing in the Belgian region of Flanders and the Netherlands is analyzed, using both the expense-to-income ratio and residual income as indicators of affordability. Residual income is obtained by deducting net housing expenses from disposable income, whereas the former is the ratio of net housing expenses to...conference paper 2010
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Boumeester, H.J.F.M. (author)Housing became more expensive in the Netherlands between 2002 and 2006, a trend which has been demonstrated using various measures of affordability. The expenditure-to-income ratios calculated for households confirm that the average cost of housing rose for tenants and homeowners, as well as for most income groups generally. This contribution...journal article 2010
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Heylen, K. (author)Recently housing affordability has reached the agenda in Flanders and the Netherlands, giving a good reason to present a review of the concept of affordability and different definitions. The concept of short-term affordability, which is concerned with financial access to a dwelling and is based on cash flows, is combined with the concept of long...journal article 2011
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- Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. (author), Boueri, J.J. (author) conference paper 2011
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Cuperus, Y.J. (author), Smets, D. (author)This paper reports on the URBox concept encompassing the high tech end of solar energy and informal low cost and affordable housing. It aims to contribute to solving the global energy crisis by building solar energy settlements in deserts where land is affordable and sunshine in abundance. First the award winning Solar City 2050 is described and...conference paper 2011
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Coolen, H. (author), Meesters, J. (author)The aim of this special issue is to further our understanding of ‘house’, ‘home’ and ‘dwelling’ by presenting five empirical studies that investigate different aspects of these concepts. All three are complex, multi-faceted and multi-layered concepts, whose diverse connotations are often used interchangeably. For example, the word home is used...journal article 2012
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Haffner, M. (author), Lennartz, C. (author), Dol, K. (author)Housing outcomes are predominantly compared in terms of individual indicators, in-cluding such items as quality or affordability measures, where the outcomes of the individual measures are often not linked in a preceding research step. However, the creation of a composite indicator of housing outcomes, in which these individual measures are...report 2012
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Dol, C.P. (author), Heylen, K. (author)Combating poverty and social exclusion is a core policy issue in the European Union (EU). The Statis-tics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database facilitates analyses of the extent of poverty and social exclusion. One of the indicators built from the database is the at-risk-of-poverty indicator. Applied to households, it indicates...report 2014
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- Belanger, H. (author), Coolen, H.C.C.H. (author) conference paper 2014
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)The decreasing importance of socio-economic factors in choosing a place to live gives more room to other motivational factors. These can be examined using affordance-based theory (Gibson, 1979), which explores what use the environment has to the user. In a telephone survey, 738 respondents were asked for their preferred residential environment...conference paper 2015
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)In this Briefing Paper the focus is on the EU-SILC and on the questions: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pan-European data set EU-SILC, which stands for ‘European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions’? How useful is this database when making international housing comparisons? The examples in this paper are based on my...journal article 2015
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Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Marais, L (author)Subsidised housing often creates a segmented housing market, with some home owners falling into a gap between the subsidised and non-subsidised types. This gap particularly affects middle-income buyers, whose income may be too high to qualify for subsidy but too low to buy a non-subsidised house. Western Europe has policies and affordable...journal article 2016
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Hamidi, A. (author)Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine is a safe and effective vaccine that can prevent meningitis and pneumonia caused by Hib disease. Hib vaccine is recommended for all children under 5 years. Despite the availability of safe and effective Hib vaccines since early 1987, Gambia was the only low-income country that had introduced...doctoral thesis 2016
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Tola, A.T. (author)Cities under rapid urbanization such as Addis Ababa offer a set of challenges for today’s designers and planners. The urgent need for access to affordable and decent living environments presses city administrations, whose primary response tends to be a top-down approach of public housing projects and allocating plots through a bidding process in...book chapter 2017