Rental Room Research Articles

State-subsidised housing designed for income generation: the case of K206 housing in Johannesburg

State-subsidised housing in the Global South often receives criticism for ­failing to meet the economic needs of low-income citizens. The K206 housing project, situated in Alexandra, Johannesburg, stands out as a unique case by not only addressing housing requirements but also addressing the economic concerns of its low-income homeowners. This response included the incorporation of state initiated formal built-in rental rooms and provisions for incremental extensions to support income generation. This paper aims to explore both of these options that allowed residents to use housing as a means of income generation, and examines household strategies and the motivations behind using these options for extra income. Twenty-one resident interviews and spatial analyses provided insights on how the K206 housing facilitated income-­generating opportunities for its residents and analyses whether households capitalised on these opportunities and the factors influencing their decisions to do so. The findings were that state built-in backyard rooms did not generally work for income generation due to poor allocation strategies that caused conflict. Incremental extensions, even in unintended locations proved more effective for generating income. Incrementally added backyard rooms served multiple purposes and had the potential to generate income to address cash shortfalls, contribute to ­pension plans, and facilitate investments.

Trends in the Utilization of Outsourced Marketing Departments by Landlords of Boarding Rooms in Ho Chi Minh City

In an era marked by escalating competition, the adoption of Outsourced Marketing practices emerges not only as a cost-saving measure but also as a catalyst for the enhancement of operational efficiency, and market competitiveness. The deployment of outsourced marketing strategies proves to be especially germane to the operational business of boarding-room enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City, rooted in features of operational scale, industry domain specificity, and responsiveness to evolving technological paradigms and consumer information acquisition demand. Fundamental advantages of outsourced marketing services to boarding room landlords encompass cost mitigation; revenue augmentation; simultaneously, increased time for specialized pursuits, brand equity amplification, and recognition level for the rental rooms system. This article principally discusses the trends in the utilization of outsourced marketing departments by boarding room landlords in Ho Chi Minh City, according to three focal domains: (1) The scale of outsourcing, (2) Process of managing and performing outsourced marketing, (3) The influence of outsourced marketing on the operational outcomes of boarding rooms enterprises.

Factors That Shape The Decision to Have a Boarding House at Bu Tin's Boarding House in West Surabaya

The definition of boarding house is a type of rental room that is rented for a certain period oftime in accordance with the room owner’s agreement and the agreed price. High demand for boardinghouse in West Surabaya led to higher boarding house competition. By knowing factors that influenceconsumer’s purchasing decision could help Bu Tin’s boarding house withstand in the competition andincrease occupancy rate. The results obtained are that exploratory factor analysis can be used to determineconsidered factors in determining factors that influence consumer’s purchasing decision. It is based oneigen value of seven factors that has value more than one. The formed factors were insurance, mobility,property design & layout, property facility, service convenience, curfew flexibility, price.

<i>Nhà Trọ</i>, Rental Rooms for Fragments of Life. Temporary Footprint of Rural Migrants in Ho Chi Minh City

In Ho Chi Minh City, private complexes of rental rooms designated in Vietnamese asnhtrọform one of the cheapest housing stocks, targeting the working-class, including internal rural migrants. This article combines the insights of both migration and urban studies to analyze the occupation of thenhtrọthrough the concept of temporariness. It addresses the tensions between present constraints and long-term plans of rural migrants as well as their translation into the occupation of the urban space. The method draws upon observations of rental housing and interviews conducted in two suburban neighborhoods of HoChiMinhCity in 2020 and 2021, with migrants coming from deltaic and coastal rural areas of Vietnam. It is found that thenh trọprovide housing for rural migrants who are in a long-term temporary situation, within a tight urban fabric with scarce opportunities for access to urban land ownership. Informants have moved to the city up to thirty years ago. Both the move and the duration are explained by multiple factors, from economic and social mutations to environmental pressures on the deltas and the coast. Relative job stability and trust-based interpersonal relationships in the city may strengthen over time, encouraging migrants to stay. Nevertheless, no matter how long they remain in Ho Chi Minh City, many migrants perceive their stay as temporary before a projected return to the hometown, where their permanent residence registration remains. The occupation of thenhtrọobserved, their adaptations, and the narratives of migrants reveal the relative nature of temporariness in migration and draw the contours of the spatial footprint of low-skilled rural migrants in Ho Chi Minh City.

Female Subordination and Spatial Representation under The US Military Occupation of Japan and Okinawa：Focusing on Tatsuhiro Oshiro’s White Season and Akiko Hiroike’s Only ones

This paper will examine how public health measures instituted under the U.S. military occupation of Japan and Okinawa were reflected in the spatial organization of novels of the period through a comparison of the novels White Season by Tatsuhiro Oshiro and The Only Ones by Akiko Hiroike. It will then re-read “Koza” and “Tachikawa” as connected spaces of the occupation of the female body. The description of the entertainment district in the newspaper novel White Season, evinces the results of the laws promulgated by the U.S. military. The collusion between the U.S. military and a local doctor through the exchange of a prostitute leads to the gaze on the part of the doctor that evokes both the city and the female body as hotbeds of crime. The novel’s conclusion reveals that the elimination of the military base leads to the rediscovery of the natural landscape and true love. Next, I will argue that the representation of the “rental room” in The Only Ones is a space that produces money while masking women’s sex work, and at the same time it is a place where prostitutes evade the law and live together. I will also argue that the depiction of the most corrupted of the multiple prostitutes captures the military space of the Korean War.

Pengaruh Promosi Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian

A place to live is an important requirement for students because where they live they can rest after carrying out the process of learning activities during campus or after doing other activities. For that they need a place to live, whether they choose to live with their family for those who have a family in the city where the college is located or a boarding house that suits their needs. A boarding house is a type of rental room that is rented (booked) for a certain period of time. Generally, a room rental is carried out for a period of one year and has a function as a temporary residence. The function of this boarding house is what makes migrant students prefer alternative boarding houses because of the cost and time saving considerations because a nearby place will be the initial destination for someone to move. The boarding house has a positive function, namely a place as a temporary house, a place to study, and a place to rest. If it is related to the function of boarding houses, it is found that there are many phenomena of moving boarding houses carried out by tenants. In order to get a boarding house as desired, there are several factors that students may consider before deciding which boarding house to choose. This study aims to determine the effect of promotion on student decisions in choosing boarding houses in Tulungagung.

Perancangan Peningkatan Fungsi Hunian Masyarakat Di Lingkungan Pariwisata Untuk Menunjang Perekonomian Di Tampaksiring

Today's development requires humans to be more creative in seeing potential as a source of income. For a house that is in a tourism location, the house not only functions as a residence, but also has a high economic value, which can be rented and combined with other businesses so as to maximize the function of the house. Mancingan is one of the areas in Tampaksiring that has a huge natural tourism potential. Many domestic and foreign tourists travel to Tampaksiring, because they offer natural tourism based on local wisdom which is their own characteristic. This potential is a very potential thing to be utilized by the local community to improve the level of the family's economy while still preserving the Balinese tradition. In Tampaksiring there are still not many accommodation facilities, so it is a huge opportunity for local people to take advantage of these conditions. Generally the land from local people's houses is very wide and there is a lot of empty space, this is because it is still thick with the application of the Traditional Balinese Architecture concept which is characterized by this. Residential dwellings can be used with special planning to be used as a residence as well as functioning as a rental room. Circulation planning absolutely must be the main consideration to determine the zoning of the spaces in it to have optimal privacy and comfort. The position of the bedroom is good for family use or rented absolutely must get a positive view, as well as natural lighting and air to maximize the potential of the site into the building. Likewise for the concept of Traditional Balinese Architecture in the form of Natah as open space which is the center of the orientation of the building is still applied in this residence, because it is a source of strength from the environment itself. In designing the appearance of the building also still refers to the Traditional Balinese Architecture, namely the concept of Tri Angga which divides the building imaginatively into Legs, Bodies, and Heads. In its application, it is still combined with Modern Tropical Architecture to support more complex building functions.

Pengaruh Lokasi, Harga dan Fasilitas terhadap Keputusan Sewa Kamar Kost Mahasiswa Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Samudra

ABSTRACT
 The objective of the research was to find out the location, price and facilities of rental room decisions of the students Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Samudra. Data analysis method using multiple linear regression, with multiple linear regression analysis equation in research are: Y = 2.597 + 0.184X1 + 0.184X2 + 0.044X3. The value of Adjusted R Square obtained by 0,17 or 17,0% indicates the ability of the location, price and facilities of rental room decisions of the students Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Samudra, while the remaining 83.0% is influenced by other variables that are not in accordance with this study such as research, security and other relationships etc. From the results of trials on the location of the lease significant to the rental room decision and the hypothesis accepted, the price does not matter significantly to the rental room decision and the hypothesis rejected, and the facilities are not significant to the rental room decision and the hypothesis rejected. From the trial results prove the location, price and simultaneous facilities significantly influence room rental decisions the students Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Samudra and the hypothesis accepted.
 

The Dynamics of HIV-1 Epidemic Among Older Adults in Eastern China: Identifying the Role and Linkage of HIV Transmission

Background: While an unhalted upsurge of HIV/AIDS epidemic among older adults has recently been witnessed in China, the HIV transmission pattern and characteristics among older adults have not been elucidated clearly. This study aims to identify determinants and linkages along the HIV transmission pathway among older adults, and to have a better insight of HIV dynamics in China. Methods: In this epidemiological field survey, we recruited HIV-positive individuals and their close HIV-positive contacts diagnosed in one county with skyrocket-increase HIV epidemic in eastern China, Zhejiang province. We used phylogenetic analysis to verify a potential transmission network in the region. Findings: A total of 200 HIV-infected individuals in SY County, Zhejiang province were enrolled. Most of them were males (142, 71·0%), aged ≥50 years at HIV diagnosis (129, 64·5%), and with household registration in SY County (179, 89·5%). A molecular cluster of 71 participants with CRF 08_BC was identified, including three commercial sex workers (CSWs), 48 male clients (41 of them aged ≥50 years at HIV diagnosis). Each CSWs in this cluster had 23-66 virus linkages with other participants. Among participants aged ≥50 years at HIV diagnosis, 65·9% (85/129) were infected through commercial sex, among them, 97·4% (75/77) were clustered and 75·3% (58/77) were infected with circulating recombinant form virus (CRF) subtype CRF 08_BC. While, the corresponding percentages for participants aged <50 years at HIV diagnosis were 50·7% (36/71), 71·9% (23/32) and 46·9% (15/32). Most of the commercial sex occurred in street-based rental rooms, while sex-money exchange through gambling cards, and having sex while nursing older males were found to be emerging patterns of commercial sexual in rural areas. Interpretation: We found evidence of sustained commercial sexual behavior in diverse and concealed patterns between CSWs and older males through epidemiological investigation and phylogenetic analysis. One of the untreated CSW played a crucial role in HIV transmission among male clients and further leading HIV transmission within families. Public health intervention should target on controlling the infections of HIV diagnosed patients and decreasing risk behavior to reduce onward HIV transmission among seniors in China. Funding Statement: Health Commission of Zhejiang province, China, Funding number: 2019KY356 to JJ. Declaration of Interests: No other competing interests exist. Ethics Approval Statement: Ethical approval for this study was granted by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All experiments were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.

Reviews and price on online platforms: Evidence from sentiment analysis of Airbnb reviews in Boston

There is a growing interest in deriving value from user-generated comments and reviews online. For businesses and consumers using online platforms, the reviews serve as quality metrics and influence consumers purchasing decision. This study examines the relationship between guests' reviews, used as a proxy for quality, and the price set by hosts on the Airbnb platform in Boston. Using sentiment analysis to derive the quality from the reviews and a hedonic spatial autoregressive model applied to rental room prices on Airbnb, we find that prices are strategic complements and are influenced by the review score, the characteristics of the room, and the features of the neighborhood. The marketing implication is that consumers respond to the contents of online reviews, in addition to customer ratings. Policies that improve the quality of the room for one host will have a spillover effect on the price of rooms offered by other hosts.

Research on the Price of Online Short-Term Rental Rooms Based on Fusion of User Reviews

With the rapid development of the Internet and travel market, the availability of online short-term rental rooms has emerged, making good use of limited room resources. In current research, only structured data of room characteristics, such as the location of the room, are considered in the price of the room. As unstructured textual data, online user’s reviews containing the emotional responses of users influence the price of online short-term rental rooms. In this research, user reviews are considered in a hedonic price regression model to improve the performance of regression. First, structured room characteristics are input to build a traditional hedonic price regression model. Then, fusion of emotion scores transformed from unstructured user reviews is input to build a fusion hedonic price regression model. Finally, the traditional model and the fusion model are compared statistically. Experimental results indicate that the fusion of user reviews can improve the performance of hedonic price regression model.

Designing Neighborhood for Communal Activities: The Case of Low-Rent Housing for Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Chinese migrants transfer from their rural settlements to establish city lives, but their sense of identity and family network remain grounded in a village culture. The rich communal activities can be understood as one aspect of the adherence to the village culture and lifestyle of their rural settlements. This study investigates the transitional spaces combined with functions shared among such Chinese migrants in their urban settlements are to allow communal activities to emerge. The sharing of certain functions situated in the transitional spaces, namely, in front of the rental room, in front of the rental house and between the rental houses, always provides opportunities for communal activities to take place. I defend that the role played by the transitional spaces must be joined with functions that residents can share or must share with each other. The shared functions situated in the transitional spaces actually allow communal activities to take root.

ОТ ГОСТИНИЦЫ ДО СЪЕМНОЙ КАЗАРМЫ: МОТИВ ДОМА В РОМАНАХ «НОВОЙ ДЕЛОВИТОСТИ»

The article examines the motif of home in novels of the “new objectivity”, which is embodied in images of a hotel's room, a room to rent and rental barracks. In the course of research we studied the novels “Hotel Savoy” by J. Roth, “Fabian” by E. Kastner and “The artificial silk girl” by I. Keun. The research into the motif of home in novels of the “new objectivity” is based on modern studies on spatial structures in modernist literature, which consider a hotel as a type of space perfect for the man of the modern era, who is living outside of the existing traditions. The images of the hotel, rental room and barracks are close due to several common features: the hero is living there temporarily; there is no connection between the space of the house and the hero’s individuality; living there means breaking with family tradition; these spaces make privacy permeable and establish the type of relationship between people combining intimacy and detachment. The motif of the temporary house is connected, on the one hand, with the motif of the hero’s constant movement and, on the other hand, with the motif of waiting, the hero’s inability to make a decision about his future. The article puts forward the hypothesis that the image of the temporary home appears in the “new objectivity” as a crisis phenomenon, which includes social and individual components. The heroes’ temporary house reflects the era of transition, when the freedom and independence of the hero are associated with loneliness and inaction.

A Public Service-Oriented Government Building Path in Chinese City: An Example From Public Rental Housing of Chongqing

A public service-oriented government has become the core purpose of Chinese municipal government’s reform, central and local government has tried many times to explore, but effective paths are still in short. Chongqing City puts forward to improving the local livelihood of the people and providing public products and services to construct a public service-oriented government. Public rental room as a people’s livelihood of common goods to deal with marketing failures, not only eases the housing difficulties of vulnerable land ,but for the construction of the Chinese city public service-oriented government from top design, the governance structure, supporting systems will produce strong demonstrating effect.

Pengaruh Lokasi, Harga dan Pelayanan Terhadap Loyalitas Penghuni Kamar Kos di Cempaka Putih Tengah Jakarta Pusat

This research is made to analyze some factors which have influences such as location, price and service towards room tenants loyalty at region of Central Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta. The research will become a guidance for rental room owners in doing business and they need to know factors which may influence the tenants’s comfort and loyalty. Three factors such as location, price and service may become references to provide consumers loyalty. The research design is done by testing correlation among location, price and service towards loyalty trough questionnaires which are distributed to room tenants as respondents. The room tenants are mainly students of university and corporate employees. The analysis result shows that coefficient determination (R²) figure is 0.42% meaning that 42% of room tenants loyalty in the region are determined by three factors; location, price and service. Based on F – test (Anova) that these three factors simultaneously influence the room tenants loyalty. F- test figure is 11,119 at significance level 0.000 1,679 (t table) means that there is significant influence. Variable (Price) has t calculation 2,388 > 1,679 (t table) means that there is significant influence. Variable (Service) has t calculation 2,872 > 1,679 (t table) means that there is significant influence.

AN ANALYSIS OF OCCUPANCY AND VACANCY LENGTHS OF TENANTS IN OFFICE BUILDINGS IN TOKYO FIVE WARDS

In this article, we analyze the occupancy length and vacancy length of tenants located in 52 rental office buildings in main five wards of Tokyo by using survival analysis. Since the rental office market tends to change periodically, we model the phenomenon of the periodic change of 2-dimentional time-series data of tenant and vacancy rate by the ellipse approximation method.Average occupancy length is about 13 years. Attributes contributing to the increase of the occupancy length are building age and image of the rental room and etc. Average vacancy length is about 88 days. Attributes contributing to the decrease of vacancy length are good rental room image, high land price per floor-space ratio and the market condition such that its state is recovery or boom state, and etc.

FILIPINO VILLAGE IN SOUTH KOREA

This is a case study of Filipino migrant workers, most of whom are low-wage factory workers living in an industrial city of suburban Seoul in Korea. Filipino Village is the centre of their community in the city. This study describes Filipino immigrants’ housing and their community in the city. Factory jobs, cheap rental rooms, and the support of the church and migrant centre made the Filipino Village today. It explores the meaning of ‘the place’ that Filipino workers occupy in Korean society. Their basement rooms and furniture taken from the street clearly show the nature of their lives. The boundary between Koreans and immigrant workers is obvious and deep. Korean society continuously gives immigrant workers the strong message that Korea cannot be the dream country where they settle with their children. Este es una investigación del caso de los trabajadores inmigrantes filipinos. La mayoría de ellos trabajan en las fábricas recibiendo un bajo salario, y viven en las ciudades industriales en el suburbano de Seúl, Corea. El barrio filipino es el centro de su comunidad en la ciudad. Los trabajadores de fábrica, viviendas baratas, el soporte de la Iglesia y el Centro de inmigrantes formaron el barrio de hoy. Esta investigación analiza el sentido del término ‘lugar’, donde ocupan los filipinos en la sociedad coreana. Las habitaciones subterráneas y los muebles recogidos de la calle demuestran claramente sus vidas. El límite que hay entre los coreanos y los trabajadores inmigrantes es lógico y profundo. La sociedad coreana da continuamente un fuerte mensaje de que Corea no es el país soñado en que ellos desean establecerse con sus hijos.

User-Initiated Extensions in Government-Built Estates in Ghana and Zimbabwe: Unconventional but Effective Housing Supply

Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have large stocks of government-built housing, which, for various reasons, is in poor physical condition and/or does not conform to occupants' expectations. In many countries, occupants of such housing make unauthorized but quite considerable changes and extensions to their dwellings for their own use and for renting out. These changes and extensions are generally known as transformations, and may contain useful models for future policy concerning existing housing estates and policy on new developments. This paper examines user-initiated transformations to government-built housing in Ghana and Zimbabwe.1 Both cases were surveyed in a DFID-sponsored research program. The 733 dwellings (398 in Ghana and 335 in Zimbabwe) surveyed show how relatively low-income households are capable of supplying new rooms and services both to improve their own housing conditions and to supply rental rooms or accommodation for family members living rent-free. In addition, the new construction is often of a quality at least as good as the original structures and sometimes envelops the original in a new skin. Thus, transformation can be seen to be a means of renewing the housing stock at the same time as adding accommodation and services. The research demonstrates that conventional views of housing design should be rethought with long-term users' involvement allowed for and encouraged. It also demonstrates that extensions tend to turn modern bungalows into traditional compounds. Through workshops, it has had some success in changing official attitudes in Ghana and Zimbabwe. Suggested policies to encourage transformations include the provision of loan finance and the planned colonization of open space next to the dwellings where plots are not provided. For new housing, transformations demonstrate that designs should take account of the likely increase in housing on site over decades. This, in turn, indicates larger plots, rather than smaller ones, and wider ones, rather than narrower.