Residential Housing Research Articles

Political uncertainty and housing markets

This paper examines the causal effects of political uncertainty on housing markets. We used US gubernatorial elections from 1982 to 2018 as a source of exogenous variation in political uncertainty and exploited the regional variations in residential housing markets. We used neighboring states without elections and counties at the state borders without elections as control groups. We found that higher political uncertainty causes (a) a decrease in house price growth; (b) a decrease in the number of housing transactions; and (c) an increase in the number of building permits. These effects are stronger during election years when election outcomes present higher uncertainty. We further examined the impact of political uncertainty on mortgage markets and found that mortgage demand and supply decrease in election years.

Greening residential quarters in China: What are the roles of urban form, socioeconomic factors, and biophysical context?

Residential greenspace has great intracity variations. Its driving factors have been widely investigated in Western countries (e.g., in Europe and North America), where residential areas are mostly privately owned, but few studies have examined the determinants of residential greenspace in China, where land is owned by the government. Taking the subtropical city of Changsha, China, as an example, this study mapped the percent green cover (PGC) in residential quarters with a fine-resolution satellite image. We also investigated its driving factors measured from multisource geospatial data. The results show that (1) the PGC in the residential quarters showed great spatial variation, with an average of 36.6% (0–85.7%) and a standard deviation of 18.3%. (2) Urban form, biophysical context, and socioeconomic factors together explained 49.18% of the variation in the PGC, and they independently explained 22.87%, 11.17%, and 2.31% of the variation, respectively. (3) Residential quarter size, PGC in the surrounding buffer zone, residential quarter age, housing value, and population density significantly and positively impact the PGC, while percent building cover, floor area ratio, and distance to city center had significant negative impacts. The strongest positive and negative impacts came from PGC in the surrounding buffer zone and percent building cover, respectively. Socioeconomic factors, the dominant driving factors in Western countries, show little impact on residential PGC. These findings expand our understanding of the intracity variation in greenspace coverage and the driving factors, which sheds light on the effective planning and management of urban greenspaces in China.

Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison. For many, the transition back to society includes a mandatory stay in residential housing. I estimate the effect of residential housing on reincarceration using administrative data from Iowa. I address selection into residential housing by instrumenting for residential housing assignment with the recommendation rate of randomly assigned case managers. I find no evidence that Iowa’s costly investment in residential housing results in reduced reincarceration relative to parole. Instead, residential housing increases reincarceration due to violent crimes and technical violations, while decreasing drug and public order crimes. (JEL K42, R23, R31, R38)

Zero-Carbon Power-to-Hydrogen Integrated Residential System Over a Hybrid Cloud Framework

The study pioneers in proposing a hybrid cloud-based framework for designing a totally stand-alone, green residential house, stable over load variations and fluctuations of renewable energy sources (RES). The framework uses wind turbine (WT) and photovoltaic panels (PV) as the main power supplies, while employing a fuel cell (FC), fed with an electrolyzer, as the secondary source of energy. A battery is also used, which together with the FC and electrolyzer, constitute the compensation system in the proposed framework. Taking into account the various types of residential electrical loads, including an electrical vehicle (EV), and applying a deep learning method, the proposed framework makes the day-ahead scheduling of all components in the house based on the forecasted profile of load demand and the energy generated by the RES. The compensation system comes into use to balance the real-time scheduling error caused by the uncertainties of the main sources of power. To ascertain the practicality of the proposed framework for real-life implementation, it is examined on a residential house considering components with authentic technical features. The real-time operation of the suggested residential system is also tested on the SpeadGoat real-time simulator, whose results corroborate the practicability of both the real-time and day-ahead operation of the proposed framework.

Optimizing Modularization of Residential Housing Designs for Rapid Postdisaster Mass Production of Housing

Postdisaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) is a highly complex process because of the large number of recovery projects for affected communities and the shortage of resources after a disastrous event. PDHR also needs a strategy that reconsiders it as a large-scale integrated portfolio of projects instead of individual building reconstruction projects. However, this complexity and the lack of a holistic, systematic approach for planning frequently lead to an ad-hoc or case-by-case decision-making process. To resolve this critical challenge in postdisaster housing mass production, this study investigates and develops a systematic approach that optimizes the design modularization of housing recovery projects considering manufacturing, transportation, and assembly factors for a cost-efficient and sustainable implication of modular construction (MC) in PDHR. Using the genetic algorithm-based optimization method, the proposed method addresses the possible trade-offs between the commonality and suitability of the module configurations for PDHR projects. In addition, the authors used a set of feasible configurations of a variety of modular housing designs created from the AI-based generative design system and conducted the mass production scenarios after a disaster to validate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed methodology. The results clearly show that the proposed method significantly improved optimization and decision-making of MC design and construction processes and considerably enhanced rapid and logical responses to the demands of the postdisaster recovery process. The newly developed method is expected to assist the planners in formalizing the commonality concept in the PDHR process and achieving an optimal level of modularity and commonality that meet the required variation while maintaining the advantages of mass production.

Investigation of thermal comfort conditions by heat pump Hybridized with phase change Material-based solar desiccant cooling system

In response to the challenge of providing energy-efficient thermal comfort in hot and high-humidity cities, this study investigates innovative cooling systems that can mitigate issues of overcooling and excessive energy consumption seen in conventional air conditioning systems. Also, conventional cooling systems contribute to global warming by emitting high levels of greenhouse gases. In this research, two systems Phase Change Material (PCM)-based Solar Desiccant Cooling System (PSDC) and Heat Pump Hybridized with a PCM-based Solar Desiccant Cooling System (HP-PSDC) were investigated for a typical residential house located in Doha (Qatar), Vancouver and Toronto (Canada), and Bangkok (Thailand). According to the findings, the PSDC system provides thermal comfort conditions in Vancouver and Toronto with COP of 1.05 and 1.44, respectively. While in Doha and Bangkok, the innovative system that is HP-PSDC system has better performance when the COP (Coefficient of Performance) of the former is 4.98 and the latter is 4.5. The novelty of this work lies in the approach to balancing thermal comfort conditions with energy consumption. Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) were determined to set design criteria for the selection of the proper system based on the weather conditions of each city by using Design of Experiment (DOE) analysis. According to DOE, the dry bulb temperature, the wet bulb temperature, and the absolute humidity of the ambient air are three key characteristics that must be considered when choosing the appropriate system to provide thermal comfort conditions. It was found that if the wet bulb temperature of the building location is more than 21.5 °C, utilizing the HP-PSDC system can guarantee thermal comfort condition. However, for wet bulb temperatures less than 18.5 °C, the PSDC system is recommended. This research presents implications for the design of sustainable cooling systems, offering energy efficiency improvements and climate-specific system selection guidelines.

Factors of cyclone disaster deaths in coastal Bangladesh

Bangladesh's success in disaster risk management is often evidenced by referencing the reduction of deaths caused by tropical cyclones — the Cyclone Gorky 1991 caused 147,000 deaths, the Cyclone Sidr 2007 caused 4500 deaths and only 6 deaths by the Cyclone Mora in 2017. This raises questions of how deaths occurred by tropical cyclones in the past and what factors still might contribute towards deaths from cyclone hazards? This study answers these questions through face-to-face interviews with 362 residents, field visits and observations across coastal Bangladesh. The findings indicate that there have been improvements in house structures and design, warning responses and evacuation processes to public cyclone shelters and informal cyclone shelter centres. In the past, due to a lack of built infrastructure, strong residential houses and public cyclone shelters, deaths occurred whilst living in fragile houses; attempting to survive through holding trees and floating in storm surges. The top ten factors that may still cause deaths by tropical cyclones include: (1) Living adjacent to the coast without an embankment or lack of embankment, or the failure of an established embankment; (2) the repeat of a 1991-like cyclone; (3) non-evacuation following early warning; (4) poor roads in remote areas to facilitate mass movement; (5) distance to and insufficient number of public cyclone shelters; (6) lack of protective measures for the rising number of elderly and disabled people; (7) community's unawareness; (8) communication failure during the emergency period; (9) failure to evacuate people from remote locations; and (10) Poor radio signal and mobile network issues resulting in no warning information being effectively and timely communicated. This study provides several key recommendations addressing these factors of deaths, to be implemented by individual, community, private sectors, non-government organisations (NGOs) and public sectors across coastal Bangladesh.

Peranan UMKM Di Desa Kajang Untuk Meningkatkan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat Dalam Tinjauan Maqāşid Syarī’ah

Introduction: UMKM is the most strategic sector of the national economy and concerns the lives of many people so that they become the backbone of the national economy. Such is the case with UMKM in Kajang Village, Sawahan District, Madiun Regency, which makes UMKM an effort to improve welfare. Research Methods: The research method used is a qualitative descriptive research method which is a problem-solving procedure by describing circumstances based on facts that appear as they are. Results: The existence of UMKM can provide benefits to the community supported by an increase in the number of UMKM in Kajang Village and can improve the quality of human resources which are expected to have many new innovations able to meet the four benchmarks of community welfare and also the three levels of sharia maqasid. The obstacles faced come from internal factors and external factors. Conclusion: UMKM in Kajang Village has a very important role in the community which is able to open new job opportunities. The people of Kajang Village have met all four indicators, namely income, residential housing, education, and health. In the analysis of maqāṣid syarī'ah, the people of Kajang Village have fulfilled three levels, namely dharuiriyyah, hajiyyah, and tahsiniyyah.

Job Search, Spatial Constraints, and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis of the Cameroonian Case

The individual transition from unemployment to employment is conditioned by various elements. If some of them concern directly the individual characteristics of workers, while others implicate indeed their environment when searching for a job. The residential location, housing status, and high travel distances to each labor market area are factors that can influence the exit rate of unemployment. This paper aims to integrate, in a job search model with endogenous intensity, the spatial horizon of prospecting. This horizon is introduced through the prospecting distance, which influences both the arrival rate of offers and the search costs. The equilibrium properties of the model lead to an indeterminate effect of the prospecting distance on the unemployment duration. The micro econometric estimation of the structural model allows us to deal with this ambiguity. The method adopted takes into account not only the selection rule on access to employment but also the endogeneity of the choice of spatial mobility. Results highlight that the exit from unemployment is shorter as the prospecting distance increases, but the increase in this prospecting distance does not lead to a decrease in the reserve wage.

Bhubaneswar Smart City by Using GIS

Abstract: Smart City Bhubaneswar: A Citizen-Centered Approach for Smart Growth. Bhubaneswar is the capital of the state of Odisha in India. Known as “The Temple City”, it is an emerging hub for education, health and information technology, as well as a popular tourist destination. The projects detects the origins of Bhubaneswar Smart Cities Mission is to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local area development and harnessing technology, especially technology that leads to Smart outcomes. Hereby in the project, The transition towards greater smartness is an emerging trend in the development of modern cities. Urban Sprawl, also called Sprawl or Suburban Sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation

Enabling circularity for food safety: the rooftop farming model

Population growth, environmental change, urbanization, consumption patterns, waste, the global political climate, conflicts, and infectious diseases all exert a strain on global food security. Access to sufficient and nutritious food is becoming increasingly problematic, particularly for individuals living in less developed and developing countries. More individuals are becoming aware of the significance of developing a "Green Economy" approach to ensure global food security. A multifaceted strategy is required to ensure global food security. This study emphasizes the need for regional self-sufficiency for the transition to a green economy, and as a model proposal, it is suggested that it would be beneficial to encourage and develop farming operations on the roofs of residential, commercial, and public housing in urban regions. Rooftop farming, as one of the urban agriculture practices, can be utilized as a strategic instrument to achieve a variety of key aims, including enhancing the local economy, reducing inequality, internalizing responsible production and consumption by society, improving the quality of urban life, and more. Furthermore, because of the novel production processes seen in urban agriculture, circularity in production and consumption, a key component of the transition to a green economy, can be realized. "Self-sufficiency" is one of the concepts underlined in this study. The study also includes real cases highlighting the potential benefits of rooftop farming.

The Idea of Building A House of Maqashid Sharia Perspective

This study discusses the construction of residential houses in accordance with sharia principles, both in the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and residential houses, which is then called architectural fiqh. Residential construction in addition to paying attention to architecture must also pay attention to aspects of Islamic law. Attention of classical and contemporary scholars very few specifically talk about architecture from the point of view of jurisprudence. So far, studies on architecture have mostly studied Islamic architecture, but no one has studied architecture in a fiqh approach. So, through the fiqh approach, a new study was initiated, namely architectural fiqh. This research is a literature study with a focus on fiqh studies in building sharia residential houses using a conceptual approach and an architectural fiqh approach which is analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The findings of this study indicate that the construction of residential houses so far only pays attention to architectural aspects, so there is a need for a fiqh and architectural approach (architectural fiqh), namely building houses according to sharia signs such as aspects of worship, muamalah, neighborly etiquette and ‘urf or adat. That occurs in society. Through the architectural fiqh approach, it directs to build and maintain sharia residential homes in accordance with sharia maqashid, namely maintaining religion, soul, mind, lineage, and property.

The Thermal Image of Sun Orientation and Openings in Residential Buildings with Modern Tropical Design Concept in Medan City

This study aims to analyze thermal imagery of the sun's orientation and the formation of openings in residential houses with a modern tropical design concept in Medan. The method used is temperature measurement and building thermal identification using a digital thermal imaging tool, namely Flir CX-3, which is carried out during the day, as well as measuring the WWR (window-to-wall ratio) value of the building. The results of the thermal image analysis show that the North-South orientation gets lower temperatures compared to the East-West orientation, even though it has a larger WWR value of 12.9% and 20.9%. Based on the results of this analysis, it is suggested to consider the orientation of the sun in designing residential houses in the city of Medan. Houses with a North-South orientation are the best choice for maximum thermal comfort and natural lighting, supported by large openings as one of the characteristics of modern tropical architecture.

Analyzing Factors Influencing Purchase Intention for Residential Property Developer on Bandung Barat Regency : A Study on Advertisement, Sales Promotion, Online and Social Media Marketing, and Product Attributes

MSMEs is the most important pillar to the Indonesia economy because the contribution of this segment is 60,5% to the GDP of Indonesia. Also contribute 96,9% of total national absorption employment. One of the MSME sectors is residential construction. In 2020, the backlog of Indonesia is 12,75 million which means there are 12,75 million families that did not own the house so the demand for residential property is high. There are many residential property companies that serve the low income segment. One of them is a residential property developer that the author does research for and is one of the residential property companies that is now experiencing decline in sales. They sell the house in the low income segment in Bandung Barat regency in Indonesia. So when a pandemic hits, the buying power of this segment is getting lower. They focus on buying the essential daily needs such as food and drink, the plan for buying a house will be postponed until their economy gets better. To this scenario, the company must change the segment market to target new potential customers or adjust the product to still be affordable to this segment. Based on preliminary research, the author found that there is a shift on choosing the channel for seeking a house from offline to online. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence residential property company house sales and to increase sales of house products. This study uses qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method utilised in preliminary research by interviewing business owner and employee of the company. The quantitative method utilised by questionnaires that are distributed to potential customers. The sample of this research consists of 200 respondents taken by non-probability sampling. The questionnaire will use a likert scale with 5 levels, representing an interval scale. The data analysis methods used are validity test, reliability test, and hypothesis testing using SPSS. Based on the research result, advertising, sales promotion, online and social media marketing, and product attributes have a significant influence on purchase intention.

The emergence and evolution of workers’ villages in early New China

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the emergence of China’s workers’ villages, and their changes over time in the 1950s in terms of residential planning and housing design characteristics. The new socialist regime realized in the 1950s numerous workers’ villages around China. Along with the fluctuant Soviet impact and China’s domestic realities, workers’ villages built in different phases during this decade show diverse features in their plans and styles. In this article, the characteristics are analysed by selecting typical cases in each phase. The findings show the workers’ village in early New China was driven mainly by triple reason: realistic demand, political commitment, and ideological instruction. In the first years, before the design and construction were Sovietized, the neighbourhoods were realized by following a western way. Since 1952, Soviet models were applied in China’s workers’ villages. But quite rapidly Chinese architects nationalized the Soviet prototype. From the mid-1950s, workers’ neighbourhoods were gradually simplified due to political and economic policy adjustment. By analysing the evolution of worker villages impacted by multiple factors, this article sheds lights on China’s socialist architectural discourse and supplements the existing scholarship on the transnational socialist architecture.

El desajuste entre la oferta y la demanda de vivienda, y su relación con los precios

Rationale Analysis of recent housing supply and demand trends, and of the factors contributing to them, is extremely useful to detect the emergence or existence of imbalances in the housing market, which is characterised by long lead times for house building. Takeaways •After the initial impact of the pandemic, the recovery in demand for owner-occupied housing nationwide has outpaced the recovery in supply, which is less flexible in the short term. This has led to a certain mismatch between supply and demand and to upward pressures on house prices. •In recent years, there has also been a widespread supply shortage at the regional level. The prices of owner-occupied housing have risen more in regions where housing has been in relatively shorter supply. •Although the cost of credit has risen, house prices will foreseeably continue to show greater downward stickiness, in nominal terms, than residential housing market variables such as house sales or building permits, owing to the dearth of new construction work, the high costs of building materials and the favourable financial situation of the different housing market agents.

Analysis of Residential Property Market Value Using Market and Cost Approach

Banks require guarantees as a benchmark for lending and alternative payments when there is a bottleneck in credit payments. This research aims to determine the market value of residential property in the form of a house which is used as a basis for guaranteeing debt in the Malang City area. The market value is obtained with a market approach using a market data comparison method and a cost approach with a market data comparison method to find land market values ​​and the depreciated replacement cost method to find building market values. This type of research is descriptive quantitative. The data used was a medium-sized residential house as the object of valuation and three comparative data in the form of residential houses that have the same characteristics to find the market value of residential houses using the market approach. While in the cost approach, three comparative data of vacant land were used to find the land market value. This valuation resulted in a market value of IDR 3,009,000,000 which was obtained from the reconciliation of market values ​​in the market approach of IDR 3,175,529,000 and the cost approach of IDR 2,758,384,000. The liquidation value is set at 70% of the market value, which is IDR 2,106,000,000.

Reading the Façade of Shiraz residential houses in the Qajar Era

The research uses a qualitative method. A review of library and also 3d modeling of three types of the Qajar Era houses, led to the selection of 10 houses out of 290 registered houses of this era. The findings suggested an interrelationship among all buildings. The houses are mainly characterized by the symmetry of the windows, doors, and stairways while differing in terms of the decorative work, whether or not the houses belong to the officials, landlords’ livelihood status, and their area. Analyses suggest that most facades have a horizontal skyline and a horizontal rhythm with 1/4 and 1/3 ratios. The main materials used in these facades include woods, stone, simple and colored glass, and glazed tiles and bricks on the bodies. Decorations at the entrances include five-door, three-door, and seven-door designs, mostly made of glass. Thus, it is concluded that the entire facades of this era include visual and mental elements, while other elements are used to strengthen this aspect.

Style evolution rules of Tibetan dwellings in the Amdo Tibetan region: An architectural typology perspective

The Amdo Tibetan region is one of the three major Tibetan regions in China, along with the Jiarong Tibetan region and the Kangba Tibetan region. The Amdo Tibetan region is located in the Tibetan-Qiang-Yi corridor, where many ethnic groups have migrated for a long period, and the Tibetan dwellings in the region have typical characteristics such as the intermingling of multiple cultures and various construction methods. With post-disaster reconstruction and rural revitalization work, the architectural landscape of the dwellings in the region has gradually become homogenized with that of other Tibetan regions, suffering construction damage and distorting the architectural culture. However, the current academic circle lacks a description of the evolution rules of folk styles in the Tibetan areas of Amdo. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper selected typical folk styles in Jiuzhaigou Valley in the Tibetan areas of Amdo as the research subject. Based on the perspective of architectural typology, this paper classified folk styles based on field research and constructed a quantitative analysis framework using a “classified-iconic index- characteristic calculation index.” Finally, the following conclusions were reached: (1) The Tibetan dwellings in Jiuzhaigou, as a whole, are evolving in a direction that reflects originality in the plans, modernity in the structure, and autonomy in construction. (2) In the rural settlements of the Ando Tibetan region, the environment, managers, and villagers interact with each other, and the method and degree of influence are intuitively reflected in the appearance of the dwellings. The results of the above study reveal the evolution of the residential landscape in the Tibetan area of Amdo, enriching the theoretical perspective and implementation approaches for the study of residential landscapes, and providing new ideas for the conservation and development of residential houses in ethnic areas in the future, contributing to rural revitalization.

Identification of People's Preference Towards the Use of 3D Construction Printing Technology as a Method for Home Construction Method in Indonesia

Various sectors have undergone changes and developments with the existence of technology. One of the sectors affected by the development of the technology industry is the construction sector. The construction sector is experiencing slow development compared to other sectors. The construction industry in Indonesia is still influenced by using quite a lot of human labor. One of the technologies in the construction industry is 3D construction printing. This technology is claimed to be able to build houses faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. The community as a market and players from the construction sector take an important part so that development using this technology becomes right on target, especially in the construction of residential houses for the community. The purpose of this study is to find out people's preferences regarding the existence of 3d construction printing technology for residential construction to open the potential for alternative methods of house construction other than conventional methods. The research method is carried out using a qualitative approach. The data collection method is carried out with an open-ended online questionnaire and distributed freely (non-random sampling). This research also showed about what kind of community category that interested to build their home using this technology. The collected data then analyzed qualitatively content analysis using JMP program. The results showed categories of public opinion regarding the use of 3D construction printing technology as a house construction method including Impressive, Sustainability, Innovation, Effectiveness, Inexperienced, Usefulness, Efficiency, Complexity, High construction costs, and Quality Test. Furthermore, regarding people’s preferences for using 3D Construction Printing as a method for building their homes, 41% said yes, 41% said maybe, and 16% said no, this shows that this technology is mostly accepted by the public but due to lack of understanding, research, and knowledge so that many answers as possible. The community category that most interesting to use this technology to build their homes are people who have a monthly income of around 3-6 million rupiah, and the occupasion are government employees and entrepreneurs with the same percentage 0,6 than other occupations are below 0,5.The categories are inexperienced, and usefulness. The results of this study are expected to be a consideration for stakeholders in building houses using the 3D construction printing method that can be used for residential homes in Indonesia. TRANSLATE with x EnglishArabicHebrewPolishBulgarianHindiPortugueseCatalanHmong DawRomanianChinese SimplifiedHungarianRussianChinese TraditionalIndonesianSlovakCzechItalianSlovenianDanishJapaneseSpanishDutchKlingonSwedishEnglishKoreanThaiEstonianLatvianTurkishFinnishLithuanianUkrainianFrenchMalayUrduGermanMalteseVietnameseGreekNorwegianWelshHaitian CreolePersian // TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster PortalBack//