Building on lessons learned : too high hopes without HOPE VI? by Wang, Kristen J

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Property, Proportionality, and Marginality by Rachael Walsh

“…<p>On 31 January 2022, the Irish Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment that collapsed, at least in respect of remedies, a previously rigidly-drawn distinction between the private law rights and the public law obligations of housing authorities. The judgment breaks important new ground in emphasising the underprivileged and marginalised status of the Travelling community, and furthermore, in identifying that status as a factor that could weigh against the granting of an injunctive remedy.…”
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Writing texts, editing books, making history: the ‘Coleção Documentos Brasileiros’ and the changing of national historiography (1936-1960) by Fábio Franzini

“…This article presents an overview of the Coleção Documentos Brasileiros’ golden age (from the 1930s to the 1950s, contemporaneously to other similar projects) and intends to show how it housed authors and books committed to the production of a new knowledge about Brazil, particularly as regards to the History. …”
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How to Promote Purple Martins in North Florida by Holly K. Ober

“…In the Eastern United States, a shortage of natural housing options has left these fascinating and attractive birds completely dependent on man-made housing. Author Holly K. Ober tested seven commercially available martin houses to determine what is best for martins in north Florida and provides recommendations in this 4-page fact sheet published by the UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. …”
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Maximising the potential of administrative data to examine homelessness in Northern Ireland by Siobhán Murphy, Eileen Mitchell, Dermot O'Reilly

“…However, it is possible that a proportion might remain unknown to local housing authorities due to personal circumstances, changes in legislation or eligibility criteria etc, which might mean that formal applications underestimate the true scale of homelessness. …”
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Towards a Smart Community Welfare as a response to the housing emergency by Matteo Giovanardi, Matteo Trane, Elisa Biolchini

“…Following an analysis conducted on several levels and the involvement of local social housing authorities, we identified guidelines that are both programmatic – in the context of policies for the home – and project-related – regarding the physical and digital space, able to foster peculiar social-care relationships. …”
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Unlocking green financing for building energy retrofit: A survey in the western China by Mingshun Zhang, Ya Lian, Hui Zhao, Chun Xia-Bauer

“…This paper, based on a survey of 469 samples and on-site visiting to and interviewing relevant 50 actors of ESCOs, financial institutions and local housing authorities, identifies main barriers of accessing to green financing at both systemic policy level and operational meso and micro level in China, and analyzes good practices at local level that overcome the barriers. …”
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Refurbishment of Social housing: a survey of the building stock owned by ATC Torino by Andrea Levra Levron, Donatella Marino, Riccardo Pollo

“…The public policies adopted in the last decades have pushed the supply of housing by the private sector and supported the sale of the assets by the public housing authorities. Those buildings are often degraded and obsolete. …”
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Environmental challenges to sustainable development in housing sector at Gaza strip by Shehab, A. M., Kandar, M. Z.

“…This research paper offers interesting implications for local housing authorities and construction industries by pointing out the challenges of sustainable development in the housing sector in the Gaza Strip.…”

Indoor environment sustainability of residential-industrial housing in Malaysia by Zakaria, Rozana, Mohd. Said, Mohd. Ismid, Yang, Jay, Yahya, Khairulzan, Haron, Zaiton

“…This study has suggested that proactive and integrated involvement by housing authorities from all levels of government in Malaysia should be encouraged in order to rationalise the approaches to develop better planning solutions for such mixed-used urban developments. …”
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Nonlinear relationship between housing supply and house price in Malaysia by Geok Peng Yeap, Hooi Hooi Lean

“…The evidence of inverted U-shaped housing supply curve in Malaysia shows that housing authorities have taken steps to overcome the challenges of oversupply by reducing the approvals for housing development projects. …”
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Limits to Ecological-based Planning in Zimbabwe. The Case of Harare by Archimedes Muzenda, Innocent Chirisa

“…It explicates that in developing countries efforts by housing authorities have been on housing provision irrespective of the environmental threats to sustainability. …”
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Developing affordable housing design for low income in Sana'a, Yemen by Alaghbari, Wa'el, Salim, Azizah, Dola, Kamariah, Abang Ali, Abang Abdullah

“…The first one was to examine the requirements and needs of low-income groups, while the second was to analyze the feedback of professionals in relevant housing authorities in Sana'a. An affordable house design methodology was used to design alternatives of low-income housing in order to minimize cost and environmental impact while maximizing the social acceptability in housing projects. …”
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Waste of Space in the Design of Contemporary Local Dwelling Units by Hamid Turki Haykal

“…This conclusion should be considered by housing authorities, designers, investors, and other stakeholders to avoid wasted spaces that also causes waste of national resources.…”
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Exhibiting Reform: MoMA and the Display of Public Housing (1932–1939) by Rixt Woudstra

“…This article explores how MoMA was instrumental in introducing and promoting the concept of public housing to the American public by cooperating on several exhibitions with local and federal public housing authorities, such as 'Housing Exhibition of the City of New York' (1934), 'Architecture and Government Housing' (1936) and 'Houses and Housing' (1939). …”
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The right to comfort in the century of the self by Zara Ferreira

“…Whether through welfare state systems, as mainly evidenced in Western Europe, under the prospects launched by the Plan Marshall (1947), or through the establishment of local housing authorities funded or semi-funded by the government, or through the support of private companies, civil organizations or associations, the time had come for the large-scale application of the principles of modern architecture and engineering developed before the war. …”
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The right to comfort in the century of the self by Zara Ferreira

“…Whether through welfare state systems, as mainly evidenced in Western Europe, under the prospects launched by the Plan Marshall (1947), or through the establishment of local housing authorities funded or semi-funded by the government, or through the support of private companies, civil organizations or associations, the time had come for the large-scale application of the principles of modern architecture and engineering developed before the war. …”
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Socio-Spatial Analytic of Low-Income Housing Units in Egyptian New Cities, Case Study Teba City by Riam Elmorshedy

“…The issue for people who cannot afford buying their own homes is: “what kind of place they should live in” as their homes are determined by housing authorities, planners, architects, politicians, and social philanthropists, depending on universal and local standards. …”
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Bernard Lewis dan Apologia Barat by Adian Husaini

“…Lewis was so close to the White House authority and it caused his views containing political thought which guided the United States of America to decide their foreign policy. …”
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Publishing habits and perceptions of open access publishing and public access amongst clinical and research fellows by Robin O’Hanlon, Jeanine McSweeney, Samuel Stabler

“…Data on publications authored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center fellows between 2013 and 2018 were collected via an in-house author profile system and citation indexes. Journals were categorized according to SHERPA/RoMEO classifications. …”
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