Search for dissertations about: "housing policies"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words housing policies.
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6. Housing Decay and Maintenance : The Case of Public Housing in Tanzania
Abstract : The dominant discourse in Tanzania is that home ownership is the most sustainable strategy towards solving housing problem. As a result, housing policy orientation has been towards promotion of home ownership through a land-housing linkage strategy that manifests in improvement of access to identified categories of people usually classified on resources constrained criterion. READ MORE
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7. Pollution, Health and Housing Markets : Essays on the Consequences of Environmental Policy
Abstract : The objective of the thesis is to estimate the health and housing market effects of environmental policies and estimate how these effects are distributed among individuals.The first essay estimates the health effects of a noise mitigation program that provided dwelling insulation and noise barriers. READ MORE
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8. Institutional prerequisites for affordable housing development : A comparative study of Germany and Sweden
Abstract : This thesis was written against the background of intense public debate on increasing housing shortages and housing policy reform in Germany and Sweden. Potential reforms to increase housing development volumes, especially in the affordable segment, are analysed using theories of institutional change with focus on urban planning, building law and housing policy. READ MORE
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9. Organizational and economic aspects of housing management in deprived areas
Abstract : This dissertation consists of five papers with different objectives. The overall objective is to improve knowledge of effective policies regarding socially deprived large housing estates. All studies deal with the real estate context from a housing company decision-making perspective. READ MORE
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10. User involvement in housing recovery : Cases from Haiyan affected areas in the Philippines
Abstract : The aim of this study is to develop a better understanding of the relation between housing recovery and user involvement from a capability perspective. The thesis studies housing recovery in areas affected by typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines on 8th November 2013. READ MORE