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Inclusionary Housing
An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China
Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its
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Embracing market and civic actor participation in public rental housing governance
New insights about power distribution
In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chines
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Effective Public Rental Housing governance
Tenants’ perspective from the pilot city Chongqing, China
In the past decade, Public Rental Housing (PRH) has become the program of providing affordable rental housing to low- and middle-income households in China. Even though descriptions of the governance results are numerous, the previous studies are not underpinned by a theoretical
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Housing wealth and aged care
Asset-based welfare in practice in three OECD countries
The transition of the baby boomer bulge into old age and their increasing longevity will lift the numbers of elderly in residential aged care. Population ageing and associated fiscal pressures have motivated governments to shift responsibility for the financing of aged care to th
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Housing Equity Withdrawal
Perceptions of Obstacles among Older Australian Home Owners and associated Service Providers
Housing wealth dominates the asset portfolios of the older population in Australia and many other countries. Given the anticipated spike in fiscal costs associated with population ageing, there is growing policy interest in housing equity withdrawal (HEW) to finance living needs
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Housing vulnerabilities unravelled
Impact of housing policy changes on Dutch households that have difficulties making ends meet
While Dutch housing policy has been moving towards ‘more market’ influences in this century, in response to the triple recession that the Netherlands underwent in the period 2009-2013, government started promoting a participation society. In order to analyse the impact in practic
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Three contradictions between ESG finance and social housing decarbonisation
A comparison of five European countries
The regulation of financial markets according to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria has become a priority for the European Union (EU). Recent legislation, such as the EU Green Taxonomy, aims to identify sustainable investments enhancing transparency and accountab
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Homeownership taxation in Flanders
Moving towards ‘optimal taxation’?
Belgium devolved administrative and budgetary responsibility for the favourable income tax treatment of owner-occupied dwellings to its administrative regions in July 2014. This change allowed the regions to redesign their housing-related tax instruments. This paper examines a ta
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Housing Deprivation Unravelled
Application of the Capability Approach
The capability approach as a normative approach to wellbeing focuses on the real freedoms of people to choose the life they want to live (Sen, 1999). This approach is regarded as an alternative to the needs-based approach of paternalistic welfare states in Europe and seems to mat
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Future Bank: Connecting The City
Reinventing the bank in a radical way
The Graduation Studio of Interiors Buildings Cities (2021-2022) examines the possible future of the National Bank of Belgium, located in the city of Brussels. The Bank as a collective system has recently come under scrutiny because of the ongoing climate change and the switch fro
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(not) Our Forest
An Alternative Multispecies Approach to Forest and Landscape
This research begins with a fascination for nonhuman activeness. This is based within a theoretical framework of multispecies world, in which nonhumans are seen as active beings that continuously disturb. Seeing nonhumans as active beings causes some policies, or interventions, t
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Music & Cultural center Katoenveem
The redevelopment of the former cotton warehouse Katoenveem into a cultural center
You can work with your building’s surroundings, characteristics and features by repressing them, hiding from them, celebrating them, juxtaposing them, making fun of them, uplifting them, supporting them, replacing them, improving them, or even changing them. But to make a decisio
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The Urban Beach
An energy producing public infrastructure
The living standard of the people in Alamar
is missing quality. Although many issues,
like drinking water, have been solved locally,
but a stable electricity infrastructure cannot
be provided by the people themselves. The
instability of the electricity is traceable to
the constru
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Middle-segment housing by implementing passive land policyMiddle-policy
An exploratory case study on how middle-segment housing is developed by using land-use instruments in wicked problems and with low municipal landownership
The Dutch housing market has a shortage and especially a shortage in its middle-segment between, low-income, social housing, and higher-income, homeownership. Because of this, municipalities have become more active in creating middle-segment housing, but most Dutch municipalities
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First-time buyers on the Dutch housing market
An analysis of their (changing) position
Ensuring good living accomodation is a constitutional duty of the government, but there is now a shortage of 300,000 homes. Demand for housing has grown sharply in recent years. In the last two years, the housing market issue has been high on the political agenda again. In it, th
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CPC and affordable private rental housing
An explorative study of collaboration between parties
The middle-income households in the Netherlands are currently disadvantaged in finding affordable housing, as they are pushed towards the private rental market in which affordable private rental housing is scarce. Together with participation trends, this gives opportunities for c
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Subasta Alamar
Cooperative Auction for Urban Agricultural Products
With the fall of the Socialist block in 1989, the Cuban national economy collapsed, followed by a severe scarcity in gasoline, materials and especially food. Of Alamar, a socialist housingproject in construction in East Havana only the areas dedicated to dwelling were finished, l
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A place for all households in urban areas
An exploratory study of housing preferences and housing affordability of middle-income households in relation to rental housing supply
Due to several factors, under which the widespread flexibilization in the job market and the fact that it ended up becoming more difficult to take out a mortgage, middle-income households ended up not having access to owner-occupied housing in Dutch urban areas. Also, middle-inco
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Project management uncertainty, wicked problems and decision making
Project managers in practice solving wicked problems
This thesis explores project managers in practice solving wicked problems. The research are reached by conducting case study researcher focussing on three cases. Out of the research can be concluded that project managers solve wicked problems as it is a technical problem by using
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Broadened inclusiveness for urban renewal
A spatial design contributing to ecological justice for Carnisse. Rotterdam
The complex relationship between humans and the natural world is still visible in 2023s urban planning: a city is a place for humans, and nature gives space to all non-human species. The anthropocentric perspective within the urban environment puts humans above non-human nature.
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