This study explored low-income and transitional housing environments of women sex workers and their role in shaping … of current dominant male-centred housing models. Within the physical environment, women described inhabitable housing … conditions in SROs with infestations of bedbugs and rats, leading women to even more transitional housing options such as …

This paper discusses women's strategies during the economic reforms with a focus on housing policies. It uses the … housing issue to address the importance of identifying impacts on both women as individuals and as family members when …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify how annual reports of public housing and commercial real estate … constitutes gender of the industry? Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of photographs in annual reports, 14 public housing … about how “gender is done” in annual reports, men alone are shown more often as employees and both women and men are …

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the possibility of integrating women‐centred savings schemes into … formal finance systems in order to help such schemes to leverage finance for housing purposes. Design … studies show that, if savings systems are flexible and suitable to their needs, women are capable of saving and repaying …

The article explores the transformations low-income women make to appropriate their housing that often goes unnoticed …. The aim is to document, acknowledge and make low-income women's efforts to appropriate their housing visible. Lessons … provision of housing designs that are conducive to low-income women. The study confines its investigation to the housing designs …

explore separate facets of livability (employment, housing, health service and walkability), their outputs flow through to the …

Developing countries have still shortage of housing due to natural disasters. Houses get destroyed wholly or partly and … it causes the increase of lack of housing stock of a country. In disaster management cycle, rehabilitation or … settlements are in a stable way. The paper describes the natural disasters and issues related to proper disaster housing for …

The present research provides a critical review of the housing industry efficiency and its future in Iran. Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate housing industry performance in different states based on the relevant data … government in finding a solution to the current housing problem.  …

along with the implications of the housing market developments for consumer spending, fiscal and monetary policy. The … possibility of a housing bubble and bust is examined along with its implications for the economy; policy options to minimize this …