tradition of public sector enforcement and grant‐led intervention to help preserve the nation's private sector housing stock …. Recent housing policy changes have subsumed earlier grant legislation and provided a general provision for “assistance” to … mechanisms are required for home‐owners to carry out works to their homes as private sector housing grants continue to decline …

examine the attitudes of retirement housing purchasers to tenure, the effect of culture on these attitudes, and contrast some … of about 200 respondents was selected from all purchasers of retirement housing in the West Midlands region of the UK …. Findings – The findings in this paper demonstrate that culture is an important factor affecting retirement housing purchasers …

provision of housing units in rural communities in Ghana have come from both local and offshore resources. However, very little … quality and quantity of rural housing in Ghana. This paper explores the impact of one such initiative, namely the Habitat for … Humanity International Ghana's (HHIG) intervention in the rural housing subsector. Design/methodology/approach – To understand …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an analysis of the problems and prospects of housing development in … of the data. Findings – There is a substantial imbalance between the demand for and supply of housing units in Addis … Ababa. Accumulated demand for residential housing on the one hand and the low supply of residential land on the other have …

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the unaffordability of housing and limited access to finance … as limiting factors to the provision of adequate housing in the urban areas of Malawi. Design … were conducted with all major role players in the urban housing finance industry. Secondary data were obtained through …

formal finance systems in order to help such schemes to leverage finance for housing purposes. Design … housing loans. The results also suggest that the accumulated group savings and the savings schemes themselves act as good … workable business model to exploit this potential market. Research limitations/implications – Integrated community housing is …

premium for property in a planned residential community, despite the availability of cheaper housing within immediately …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how design of housing development affects a sense of neighbourhood … papers that looks at the correlation between housing design and residents' feelings of their neighbourhood in Asia.  …

‐agent relationship. The model explains effects on management, maintenance and housing quality observed under rent control. Design … deterioration of the housing stock, notwithstanding minimum habitability standards imposed by regulators. This dilemma argues … to provide affordable housing to the less fortunate in society. Economic and social effects of rent control have since …