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the direct impact of housing conditions on children's development. A literature review of over 100 research studies was … undertaken to examine evidence of a ‘housing effect’ on children's health, learning, safety and behaviour. The results found … strong evidence of a relationship between poor housing conditions and children's health and some evidence that growing up in …
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Issues raised here are drawn from the findings of a housing investigation that explored harassment and abuse of older … health and housing. The article highlights financial abuse directed towards these older people and examines implications for …
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construction industry with special focus on a low‐cost housing scheme. The benefits of QFD on the aspects of reliability in quality …, cost and time for low‐cost housing from the customers’ viewpoint are also presented.  …
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augur well for housing delivery; job creation and economic empowerment are the primary catalysts for increased disposable …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into lessons learned so far on the in situ upgrading and eradication of informal settlements in South Africa. This is with a view to accessing progress made to date, the line of focus and to ascertain whether in situ upgrading or...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine problems of housing delivery in Nigeria and propose some guiding … principles that will lead to successful housing delivery in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted through … in-depth analysis of some documents related to housing sector in Nigeria. These include National Housing Policy of …
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approach and investigates the relationship between geographic areas’ intensity in housing construction, showing how activity …
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fifties to think ahead about their future housing needs.  …
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, location, government and culture, Canada and the USA remain strikingly different in terms of housing finance. Public policy … objectives toward housing followed quite different paths over the past 70 years and fundamental differences in banking practices … constraints concerning the finance of the domestic housing sector, focuses on the economics and public policy choices that have …
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professionals involved in the use of the definition of “Existing use value for social housing”, and the “Tenanted market value …/value – The paper is specifically relevant to valuers required to use the Red Book provisions for valuing social housing and for …
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