Housing is a human right and is considered an essential infrastructure in any community. Being able to access affordable and appropriate housing helps people secure and maintain a job, keep families safe, raise...
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This guidance note has been prepared by Hart District Council’s Housing Strategy and Development Team for landowners, developers, and Registered Providers of Social Housing (RPs). The aim of this guidance note ...
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This affordable housing statement is submitted in support of an application for full planning permission made by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (‘the Applicant’) regarding Twickenham Riverside, Twic...
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Life cycle energy of buildings is associated with different phases of buildings, which include embodied energy (EE), operating energy (OE), and energy required for demolition and disposal. Of these, the major p...
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The Council on Federal Financial Relations established the Affordable Housing Working Group (AHWG) in 2016 to investigate innovative financing options to attract greater private and institutional investment in ...
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There are differences in the definitions of Alternative Building Materials (ABM) and differences in the terminologies that are used in describing ABM by different researchers in the construction industry. ABM i...
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Bhutan is steadily urbanizing. The share of the urban population increased from 30% in 2005 to 42% in 2021, driven by an average annual growth rate of 1.9% over that period. The urbanization rate is projected t...
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Vertical growth is viewed as the solution to the problem of urban housing. The present study aims to be multifocal in approaching the phenomenon of apartment living in Lahore, Pakistan. The primary focus of the...
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In the European Union, 220 million building units, or 85% of the building stock were built before 2001 and 9 out of 10 of the buildings that exist today will still be here by 2050. These buildings are not energ...
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Approximately over a billion of the world’s urban population do not have access to adequate housing and therefore live in slums and squatter buildings. Most of these victims of homelessness and inadequate acces...
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The development of models to assess air pollution exposures within cities for assignment to subjects in health studies has been identified as a priority area for future research. This paper reviews models for a...
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Low-budget hybrid construction is a type of idea that deals with efficacious costing and following of techniques that avail in truncating the cost of production via the usage of remote to be had material in the...
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The paper’s main objective is to study Mass housing, its current status, various challenges, and planning for its implementation. Different megacities are experiencing a massive trend of Urbanization, whi...
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The dire shortage of affordable housing in the United States is unconscionable. The Housing Coalition’s 2020 annual report showed that rental rates are out of reach for nearly every worker in the bottom 50% of ...
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Housing finance is the provision of finance or capital for housing. There are three ways of interpreting this: housing finance can be taken to mean the capital required for the construction of housing or housin...
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The global housing deficit in both developed and developing countries is increasing – driven by demographic and other mega-trends including urbanization and income inequality. Global pension fund assets, on the...
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Current Condition: Limited access to formal housing finance. 70% of the total workforce are informal sectors, nonpayroll and most of them are associated with poverty –> deemed non-creditworthy. The vas...
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The lack of affordability is a persistent problem in socialized housing programs in the Philippines. Affordability is a critical component of the right to adequate housing. Without access to affordable housing,...
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The housing dimension in Kolkata has been changing in recent years. Since 1991, the city has initiated housing reform that has taken many forms and manifestations characterized by the reduction in social alloca...
The socio-economic condition of the slum dwellers is generally poor because of the lack of basic social amenities; functional skills, proper education, a source of income, hygiene, and health resources. However...
