The Housing Choice Voucher Program (“HCVP”) is one of the largest housing subsidy programs targeting low-income households. Despite its history and scale of the program, however, the impact of the HCVP is still unsatisfactory. One of the reasons is landlord discrimination agains…
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Shared housing is a symptom of a housing affordability problem. Sharing, co-residence, and doubling-up all describe non-nuclear living arrangements and household adaptations to housing market conditions. Employing three conventional measures of housing affordability, I find that…
Officially, over 43% of the Egyptian population lives in urban areas, posing a real challenge to meet people's needs in this predominantly arid environment, especially considering that only around 6% of Egypt's land is populated (CAPMAS, 2016; MHUUC, 2012). The official data und…
Paradigms of housing policies in developing countries have undergone significant changes since the 1940s in the post-colonial era. The involvement of international development agencies such as the World Bank and the United Nations with their substantial financial and technical r…
The aim of the study is to draw attention to the need for a housing design policy forming part of a comprehensive approach to the totality of production and with an understanding that the production activities of an individual or a society are the principal activities for its ex…
There are many historical inequities regarding housing in the United States, such as the lack of access to affordable and secure housing for people of color, which is a result of centuries of exclusion. These problems remain ineffectively addressed or unaddressed by policy. Inde…
For the past twenty years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) to measure the performance of local public housing agencies in their implementation of the public housing program. Among the more than 3,500 publi…