Shared Housing Research Articles

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

Book Review: In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

Book Review: In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

In search of a home: rental and shared housing in Latin America

In search of a home: rental and shared housing in Latin America

Gilbert, Alan in association with Oscar Olinto Camacho, René Coulomb and Andrés Necochea, "In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America" (Book Review)

Gilbert, Alan in association with Oscar Olinto Camacho, René Coulomb and Andrés Necochea, "In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America" (Book Review)

Options For Older Women to Share Housing

The impetus for the Older Women's Shared Housing Project arose from a number of issues identified in the consultation with Victorian women on their housing issues (Barclay et al 1991). These issues included: 1) the need to increase the range of viable housing options open to women; 2) the particular needs of older women, particularly thoseliving alone and on low to middle incomes; and 3) the interest shown and the concerns expressed by women with respect to shared housing as a relevant but under utilized option for women.

Dietary intake and growth status of young homeless children

Families with children have become the fastest growing segment of the homeless population; they accounted for 34% of the homeless in 1990 ( 1. US Conference of Mayors A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1990. A 30-City Survey. US Conference of Mayors, Washington, DC1990 Google Scholar ). The Institute of Medicine ( 2. Institute of Medicine Homelessness, Health and Human Needs. National Academy Press, Washington, DC1988 Google Scholar ) estimates that there are at least 100,000 homeless children every night, and approximately half of these children are younger than 6 years of age ( 3. US General Accounting Office Children and Youths: About 68,000 Homeless and 186,000 in Shared Housing at Any Given Time. in: 10th ed. GAO publication. PEMD-89-14. US General Accounting Office, Washington, DC1989 Google Scholar ). Despite recent studies examining the health of homeless children ( 4. Alperstein G Rappaport C Flanigan JM Health problems of homeless children in New York City. Am J Public Health. 1988; 78: 1232-1237 Google Scholar , 5. Miller DS Lin EHB Children in sheltered homeless families: reported health status and use of health services. Pediatrics. 1988; 81: 668-673 Google Scholar ), little research has been done on homeless children's dietary intake or growth status ( 6. Fierman AH Dreyer BP Quinn L Shulman S Courtlandt CD Guzzo R Growth delay in homeless children. Pediatrics. 1991; 88: 918-925 Google Scholar , 7. Wichea JL Dwyer JT Dunn-Strohecker M Nutrition and health services among the homeless. Public Health Rep. 1991; 106: 364-374 Google Scholar ). This article provides information about the diets and physical growth of preschool boys and girls living in shelters for the homeless in Baltimore, Md, and suggests ways for dietitians to work with homeless parents and shelter staff to improve diets available to homeless families.

BOOK REVIEWS

Shared Housing for the Elderly. Edited by Jaffe DJ Westport, CT, Greenwood Press Inc., 1989. 204 pages. $39.95.

Shared Housing for the Elderly.

Shared Housing for the Elderly.

Supportive Relationships in Shared Housing

This study surveyed a random sample of 144 house shares of one of the country's oldest matching programs to investigate which types of persons house share, reasons that people choose house sharing, the types of assistance house sharers need and provide for each other and the types of housing sharing relationships that exist. It found that primary reasons for sharing were financial (44%), companionship (21%), and help in home and health care (19%). Almost one-third of housesharers were frail and while they received a significant amount of housesharers were frail and while they received a singificant amount of assistance from their partners in household tasks, not all of them were in matches in which services provided or exchanged. And, contrary to other research that suggests matches are not conducive to intimacy, almost half the sample indicated moderate to strong levels of friendship as well as willingness to confide intheir partners on personal matters.

Shared housing for the elderly

Shared housing for the elderly

Logement et modes de cohabitation des étudiants parisiens

Housing and types of accommodation of students in Paris. Within Greater Paris, housing market conditions only allow to a minority of students to live alone on their own. Most students have to find shared housing accommodations: within their own families, with other relatives, with friends, in university halls, or as married or unmarried couples. According to housing accommodations, student residential spaces are identified by means of a typology.

Agency-assisted shared housing: the nature of programs and matches.

Agency-assisted shared housing: the nature of programs and matches.

Housing Policies for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

Abstract A large proportion of the urban population in developing countries lives in informal settlements due largely to rapid population growth and widespread poverty. Traditional regulatory measures—price control, minimum physical standards, eradication of squatter settlements, and urban growth control have failed to improve the housing conditions among the poor. More recently, international donor agencies have encouraged new policies based on affordability for consumers, and many developing countries are shifting their priorities to upgrading existing informal settlements and to sites and services projects for low-income settlements. Both traditional and recent government policies are guided by three key norms—unique occupancy, minimum physical standards, and one-step regularization—which are not in line with the individuals' behavior in the housing market. Therefore, governments and donor agencies need to critically examine the impacts of these norms and to consider alternative strategies such as multiple occupancy, adaptable shared housing, and multistep housing development.

Income effects on living arrangements: Differences between male and female householders

This study analyzes the effects of income on the decision to marry, live alone, or share housing with unrelated individuals. It was found that the effects of income on household formation differed for male and female householders. A positive relation between the income of male householders and the probability of marriage was found. This positive relation was visible for the female householders only for the youngest group. It was also observed that householders tend to choose housemates with incomes similar to their own.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Housing

This article reviews recent developments in the field of shared housing by the elderly, differentiating 3 types of shared housing by their level of association with social service agencies. An examination of the stated advantages and disadvantages of sharing, reported by 79 occupants of agency-assisted and agency-sponsored shared housholds in the Washington, D.C. area, leads to consideration of the varied roles of this housing option and possible variations in the development of shared housing programs.

Shared Housing: Making Alternative Lifestyles Work

Changing lifestyles mean that fewer people are living in traditional families and that demands for innovative styles of housing are increasing. Many young people live in shared houses. Such housing offers relatively cheap and flexible accommodation and also has the potential to make a positive contribution to individuals' quality of life. This paper considers the factors that contribute to the success of these households: successful conflict management, the personality and expectations of sharers, the social interaction within the house and its physical design. It concludes with a consideration of ways in which sharing could be encouraged as a housing option.

The Evolution of Local and Regional Housing Studies

Abstract Housing studies have evolved over eighty years from a set of disparate techniques into comprehensive fair share housing allocation plans. During this evolution the individual studies also have served a variety of political purposes, although housers and planners have not always admitted to them. In the latest development, a few states have sought to implement these plans by explicitly bringing them squarely into the political arena. They have done so by using analysis and plan as an agenda for improved vertical and horizontal intergovernmental sharing of control over land use decisions. This article provides a historical review of the evolution of these studies and their political uses. It concludes with some possible next steps in the evolution of housing studies.

Sharing and subdividing private market housing.

A 1980 national housing survey revealed that 2.5% of all older Americans lived with nonrelatives, another 7% were interested in sharing their current unit with others, and 8% of older homeowners were interested in converting part of their home into a separate rental unit. They are mostly the healthy young-old. Many, however, reported housing-related problems. The authors recommend public policy changes to target shared housing to the low-income aged and the disabled.

The Elderly in Context

Older people must be understood in terms of changes that occur both in themselves and in the world around them. The transactions between older people and their environments are discussed in terms of the support-autonomy dialectic and specific behaviors involving environmental reactivity and proactivity. Three examples of research are discussed to illustrate how autonomy is maintained on one level while necessary support is accepted on another level (environmental multiplexity): shared housing, intrainstitutional relocation, and the household environment of impaired people.

Shared housing: cheap, sometimes enjoyable, but contrary to norms

Shared housing: cheap, sometimes enjoyable, but contrary to norms