Public Rental Housing Research Articles

A Study on the Planning Factors for the Improvement of the Status of Vacant Houses in Public Rental Housing

A Study on the Planning Factors for the Improvement of the Status of Vacant Houses in Public Rental Housing

Development of Rent Adjustment Factor of Integrated Public Rental Housing- Focusing on the Case of Seoul -

Development of Rent Adjustment Factor of Integrated Public Rental Housing- Focusing on the Case of Seoul -

Mismatches between the Supply and Demand of Public Rental Housing in Chinese Cities

Mismatches between the Supply and Demand of Public Rental Housing in Chinese Cities

Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Public and Social Rental Housing in the Nordic Countries, part two

Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Public and Social Rental Housing in the Nordic Countries, part two

Research on green assessment method for prefabricated buildings

In view of the problem that the current evaluation of prefabricated buildings in China focuses more on the ‘assembly rate’, this paper puts forward a green assessment method suitable for prefabricated buildings in China, which determines the evaluation index system according to four aspects: green design, intelligent construction, assembled building quality and comprehensive benefit. In addition, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory method is used to optimise the index weight, and then the analytic hierarchy process–entropy weight method is used to determine the weight of the index system, and the evaluation index set is quantified and graded. Finally, taking the Hutuo Village public rental housing project in Xi’an City of Shaanxi Province as an example, this paper uses the evaluation method to conduct a green assessment and gives suggestions for improvement in each stage of the project.

Changes in Housing Satisfaction and Fertility Intentions of Married Young Households After Moving into Public Rental Housing

Changes in Housing Satisfaction and Fertility Intentions of Married Young Households After Moving into Public Rental Housing

Physical Infrastructure Analysis for the Convenience Facilities Inside and Outside Small-Scale Haengbok Public Rental Houses

Physical Infrastructure Analysis for the Convenience Facilities Inside and Outside Small-Scale Haengbok Public Rental Houses

Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China

ABSTRACT Public housing is a crucial means of providing sufficient housing solutions worldwide. However, many experts criticize the harsh architecture, the absence of public space, and lacking social infrastructure in these densely populated public housing projects in the Global North. In China, previous research has mainly focused on the effect of public rental housing (PRH) on real estate values, employment trajectories of rural migrants, and their life challenges. Few studies have explored the dynamic relationship between rural migrants, their daily social life, and how it interacts with the environment. By conducting multiple site observations and 120 semi-structured interviews with rural migrants living in three different PRH sites in Chongqing, this study addresses these gaps and uncovers the complexities of their daily social lives. The findings show that rural migrant residents have established neighborhood networks, provided mutual support, and developed a sense of place attachment to their new homes through various strategies in their daily social lives. The research enriches the theoretical debate on migration theories and deepens our understanding of rural migrants’ social experiences in urban settings. It also sheds light on China’s sustainable urban development and the overall well-being of migrating populations.

The Difference and the Influence Factors of Universal Design Principles on Habitability by Types of Residents’ Characteristics of Public Rental Housing

The Difference and the Influence Factors of Universal Design Principles on Habitability by Types of Residents’ Characteristics of Public Rental Housing

DESIGN OF PUBLIC RENTAL SETTLEMENTS BASED ON GREEN AND LOW-CARBON RESEARCH: EXAMPLE OF COURSE DESIGN FOR A SENIOR DESIGN CLASS

ABSTRACT Public rental housing has received widespread attention from the government and the public, and with the global response to climate change and the goal of “carbon peak and carbon neutral,” the development of green and low-carbon rental housing has become an important trend. Against this background, the design of public rental housing in this project is designed with the hope that students will take the problem as the guide, performance optimization as the means, and start from the perspective of architectural design to explore the combination of low-carbon strategy or green technology and design in order to create low-carbon public rental housing. The paper analyzes and shows four groups of assignments in detail, which, through crowd demand analysis and site analysis, propose corresponding low-carbon driven design solution strategies from four aspects: the design of shared carbon-saving living patterns, the pattern organization of innovative central corridors that facilitate lighting and ventilation, algorithm-driven form generation, and the composite optimization of radiant heat in the façade.

They must live somewhere! The geographical dimension of residualized social rented housing in urban Norway

The residualization of public rented housing is a prevalent phenomenon throughout Europe, and strongly present in the small and strongly means-tested social housing sector in Norway. In this article, we discuss the contested geographical dimension of residualization. Scientific studies of the geographical and locational aspects of social housing are scare in Norway and modest internationally. Based on qualitative interviews with representatives of social housing administrators in the fifteen largest urban municipalities in Norway, this paper contributes to the literature by exploring how these social housing bureaucrats perceive, reflect on, and respond to, questions related to the spatial localization of residual social housing. Does it matter where social housing is located? What are the consequences of the geography of social housing for tenants, their neighbours, and the wider socio-spatial development of cities? These are questions pondered in the interviews. In our qualitative analysis, we identify three broad themes. First, the theme of the internal social milieu – inclusive communities versus neighbour complaints and conflicts in the public housing projects. Second, the theme of neighbourhood effects; how concentrated poverty is influencing the local community in general and the upbringing of children in particular. Third, the theme of response from external neighbours and communities, in the form of either predominantly exclusive strategies (NIMBYism – Not in My Backyard), but also less prevalent inclusive strategies like (PHIMBYism – Public Housing In My Backyard).

Beyond ownership: assessing diverse housing typologies and policy interventions for affordable housing in Dilla, Ethiopia

AbstractThis research addresses global housing crisis, a secondary city of Dilla in Ethiopia as a case study. This study seeks to fill the empirical knowledge gap in popular housing typologies and tenure types in urban development in the Global South outside metropolitan areas. Drawing from an in-depth study of 18 households, the focus is on housing choices of middle- and low-income households in a secondary city of Dilla, Ethiopia. Such cities so far have been less in the focus of researchers, compared to capital regions. The studied housing types are tenures of homeownership, private rental and a rent-free model as housing types, with informal arrangements playing a role in the last two types. Our study underlines the necessity of not only acknowledging, repairing and formalizing the existing semi- and informal housing developments but also of proactively planning for peripheral housing developments and future expansion, a strategy with broader applicability to the region and the Global South. Such anticipating measures include the development of water and energy infrastructure, land earmarking for much-needed public rental housing, and the establishment of robust tenant rights through legislative foresight.

중국 공공임대주택의 주요 내용과 개선방안

China plans to build 6.5 million units of affordable housing in 40 cities from 2023 to 2025 to address housing issues, and local governments in cities such as Beijing and Chengdu are also announcing large-scale housing construction plans in line with the government’s public rental housing policy. As the Chinese government pushes forward with the construction of affordable housing, particularly public rental housing, related legal systems are being established and revised. This paper examines the newly introduced or revised legal systems related to public rental housing, to consider the main aspects of China’s public rental housing. For this discussion, we will first look at the significance of affordable rental housing and the meaning of public rental housing in turn, and then analyze the core contents of public rental housing that are currently being discussed. Additionally, through this, we aim to identify problems related to China’s public rental housing and suggest improvements.

미국의 사회주택 공급을 위한 입법 동향에 대한 소고

Recently, as damage from rental fraud has emerged as a serious social problem, there are growing voices calling for a stronger housing security net. As an alternative, we are seeking ways to expand the supply of public rental housing, and establishing a systematic legal system to support the construction of public rental housing is a very important issue. Social housing is defined as residential rental housing allocated to achieve a purpose according to certain rules and provided below market price. It is a concept commonly used in most European countries, but recently, countries around the world are preparing different laws to provide social housing that suits their own circumstances. The United States has implemented laws to support the supply of public housing at the federal level. Recently, some state and local governments have introduced the concept of social housing and are enacting laws or ordinances to increase it as they experience rapid increases in real estate prices and serious housing shortages. The latest legislation in the United States can serve as a legislative reference in that it establishes a legal system consisting of the following four aspects on the supply side. First, a limited for-profit housing company is being established as a corporation that pursues limited profit suitable for the supply of social housing. Second, separate from the existing public housing agency, an independent agency dedicated to the provision of social housing will be established. Third, related organizations operate a revolving loan fund to raise the funds necessary for public developers to build social housing. Fourth, public developers are required to deposit a portion of the profits generated from social housing operations into a revolving loan fund and reinvest the remaining profits in social housing construction. In addition, on the demand side, beneficiaries of social housing are not limited to low-income groups but also include the middle-class.

Living in public rental housing is healthier than private rental housing a 9-year cohort study from Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study

Housing tenure is an important aspect to determine health. However, even though renters tend to have more socioeconomic disadvantages than homeowners, mortality risk between private and public renters compared with homeowners remains unclear. Japanese public rented housing, such as the Urban Renaissance Agency, has been developed for supplying an adequate living environment since 1950s. This study aimed to examine the mortality risk among older Japanese residents living in private and public rented houses compared with those living in owner-occupied houses using 9-year follow-up data. This study drew upon a 9-year follow-up of participants in the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a population-based cohort study of Japanese independent adults aged ≥ 65 years. Mortality from 2010 to 2019 was analyzed for 44,007 respondents. Housing tenure was defined by a questionnaire. Cox regression models were used for calculating the hazard ratio for mortality. Bonferroni correction was used to account for multiple testing between rental houses. Overall, 10,638 deaths occurred during the follow-up period. Compared with housing owners, all rental housing groups had a significantly higher risk of mortality. Among renters, participants who lived in public rental housing had the lowest risk of mortality even after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, health status, social status, and environmental status. Multiple testing among renters with Bonferroni correction showed that public renters had 0.80 times (95% CI 0.72–0.89) lower mortality risk than private renters. Although Japanese older adults living in public rental housing had a higher mortality risk than homeowners, this risk was lower than that among private renters. A positive neighborhood environment based on well-planned urban development may have contributed to this result. The results suggest that planned urban development lowers the risk of mortality in older renters in Japan.

The impact of outdoor environments in public rental housing complexes on residents’ psychological restoration

PurposeThis study examines the impact of outdoor environments in public rental housing complexes on residents’ psychological restoration, taking into account the interconnectedness of physical and psychological factors in human health. Drawing on Kaplan and Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory and Ulrich’s Supportive Design Theory, the research investigates the factors influencing residents’ psychological restoration within these outdoor spaces.Design/methodology/approachThe Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS), which is based on the Attention Restoration Theory and the Zuckerman Inventory of Personal Reactions (ZIPERS) are used to assess residents’ restorative experiences. Field research was conducted to collect data on the outdoor environments, and surveys were administered to the residents. The study analyzes the data using SPSS, including both factor and correlation analyses, to explore the relationship between the restorative effect and emotional factors.FindingsThe study verified a significant influence of positive emotions in ZIPERS on PRS’ overall restorative effect, thus supporting the utilization of both PRS and ZIPERS factors together to assess comprehensively the impact of outdoor environments on residents’ psychological restoration.Originality/valueBy employing a multidimensional approach involving residents’ experiences and emotions, this study quantified emotional and psychological data, which were hard to quantify. These results provide a basis for developing more objective restoration environment design guidelines and programs in the future.

Antecedents of Housing Satisfaction in Public Rental Housing: Realizing Residential Welfare by Securing Social and Psychological Housing Quality

Antecedents of Housing Satisfaction in Public Rental Housing: Realizing Residential Welfare by Securing Social and Psychological Housing Quality

An Analysis of the Impact of Universal Design Principles on Habitability Based on Public Rental Housing Supply Types

An Analysis of the Impact of Universal Design Principles on Habitability Based on Public Rental Housing Supply Types

공공임대주택 거주자의 주거만족도 영향요인 연구 - 서울시 행복주택을 중심으로

This study aims to comparatively analyze the influencing factors of residents’ housing satisfaction of public rental housing types in Seoul, focusing on Happy Housing, and provide policy implications. The analysis methods were t-test and multiple regression analysis using the SPSS program. Based on the result of the analysis, we find that the more satisfied the residents of Happy Housing are with their living environment (convenience of public transportation, amenities, access to public facilities, etc.), the lower the burden of economic characteristics such as security deposit or monthly rent, the higher their housing satisfaction. Residents of Happy Housing were more satisfied with their housing when the number of household members was smaller and the duration of residency was longer. However, the internal condition of the house (housing performance, interior quality, facility condition, etc.) and external condition (recreation/green space, parking/community facilities, facilities for the disabled/elderly, etc.) were not statistically significant. Based on these research findings, policy implications were recommended to improve the housing satisfaction of residents of public rental housing.

A Study on Spatial Planning Characteristics Related to Indoor Comfort of Housing Units in Public Rental Housing for Seniors

A Study on Spatial Planning Characteristics Related to Indoor Comfort of Housing Units in Public Rental Housing for Seniors