Social Renting Research Articles

Characteristics associated with fruit and vegetable consumption in mid aged and older Chinese men and women: a cross-sectional analysis of the first wave of WHO SAGE China.

Adequate fruit and vegetable consumption is essential for healthy ageing and prevention and management of chronic disease. This study aimed to examine characteristics associated with fruit and vegetable consumption in Chinese men and women aged 50 years and over. Data from the first wave of the Chinese cohort (2008-2010) of the WHO's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) survey was used. Fruit and vegetable consumption was assessed by self-reported typical consumption in serves/day. Characteristics examined were age, education, financial security, home ownership, marital status, social cohesion and rural location. Associations with fruit and vegetable consumption were assessed using multiple linear regression adjusted for confounders and stratified by sex. Overall, women consumed more serves of fruit per day than men (mean (standard deviation): 2·6 (2·2) and 2·2 (2·1) serves/day, respectively) whereas men consumed more serves of vegetables than women (7·2 (4·0) and 6·7 (3·7)). Lower fruit consumption was associated with lower education, lower social participation, income insecurity, renting, being un-partnered and rural residency in men and women, as well as older age in women. Lower vegetable consumption was associated with older age, lower education and urban residency in men and women and lower social participation in men and being unpartnered in women. This study has identified characteristics associated with fruit and vegetable intake in a sample of mid aged and older Chinese men and women. Further research on the interrelationships between these characteristics and fruit and vegetable intake as well as longitudinal relationships is warranted.

A Study of the Prospects and Challenges of India's Government Social Rental Housing

This research explores into the complex world of social rental housing schemes run by the Indian government, looking at its prospective & challenges. It is the responsibility of the government to provide "housing for all," as this is a right incorporated in the Constitutional Directive Principles of State Policy. Social rental housing is a subset of rental housing that aims to include more people. In response, the government of India has launched several social rental housing initiatives to make affordable, good housing available to everybody. Essential components in reducing housing disparity, it assesses how well these programs foster social inclusion & sustainable urban development. Until recently, the topic of rental housing in India was mostly ignored. With the fact that there are 21.72 million urban rented houses, no legislative framework has been put in place to encourage private sector involvement in this crucial subset of housing, even though the country has been independent for 72 years.

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

A Theoretical Framework for Tracking Farmers’ Intention for Adoption of Organic Agriculture

This paper reviews the theories employed to explain factors behind farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture and synthesises a theoretical framework for future research. The results suggest that organic agriculture adoption is affected by a multitude of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. While the theories of reasoned action, planned behaviour, goal framing, and resilience captured the role of intrinsic factors, the theories of social capital, embeddedness, agglomeration, transaction cost, systems, rent and institutional theory try to capture the role of such extrinsic factors. However, no single theory suffices to capture all the factors. Thus, a holistic framework to study the intrinsic and extrinsic factors behind organic farming adoption, in totality, is provided. This theoretical framework can further be invoked to build a conceptual framework that may be tested in various country and regional contexts to establish the relative significance of all the factors. Such an exercise may be an important input in policy formulation for promoting organic farming. The policymakers can deploy this framework to commission research studies to look into the appropriateness and effectiveness of policy instruments in particular situations.

Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage

ABSTRACT Evaluating social impact and social performance offers an ongoing challenge for entrepreneurs due to the substantial complexity involved in analyzing and responding to nonpecuniary firm-, market-, and industry-level factors in the venture creation process. These difficulties are amplified by a lack of clear, reliable, and accessible social performance referents, and are particularly salient for new ventures attempting to solve issues stemming from market, government, or contract failures. Drawing from the foundational tenets of resource-based theory, we explore how ventures currently assess social impact and integrate research on competitive advantage to develop a conceptual model of social value creation strategy. We introduce two concepts to the literature—contributive advantage, defined as the ability of a firm to create more social value than the average performance of the referent competitor, and social rent, which we define as potential returns to a social factor in excess of opportunity costs—and explore the implications for research and practice.

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

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

An Australian housing conditions data infrastructure

For the past two decades, researchers and policy makers have known very little about conditions within Australia’s housing stock due to a lack of systematic and reliable data. In 2022, a collaboration of Australian universities and researchers commissioned a large survey of 22,550 private rental, social rental and homeowner households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian housing stock. This is the third and largest instalment in a national series of housing conditions data infrastructures.

What can we learn from administrative benefits data?

We present the opportunities and limitations of administrative benefits data held by local authorities for data linkage projects. Whilst the richness of this data has been exploited by practitioners for administration, its potential remains little explored by researchers. We discuss data quality, sample selection and legal gateways for data sharing.
 Drawing on our experience working with over 40 local authorities, we present the structure of three datasets: the Council Tax Reduction Scheme, the Single Housing Benefits Extract and the Universal Credit Data Share. We show what variables are usually included, under which legal gateways this data can be shared and how the cohorts represented within the data compare with the low-income population. We discuss how these datasets can be linked at the household level with a number of other data held by local authorities such as social rent and Council Tax arrears, Housing Benefit overpayments and Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs).
 Administrative benefits data provides a comprehensive snapshot of a household’s financial situation. Local authorities can proactively use and share this data with external data processors to fulfil their statutory duties if a legal gateway allows. By identifying households at risk of cash shortfalls before they reach a crisis point, councils can target support when administering local welfare schemes and preventing homelessness. By assessing eligibility for benefits, they can run data-driven uptake campaigns. This data captures a proportion of the population on national and local benefits within a local authority at several points in time. Attrition is of concern since households may leave datasets over time. Some will see their income rise and no longer qualify for benefits. Others will move out of the constituency.
 Local authorities routinely process longitudinal data on households receiving means-tested benefits by administering housing benefits, council tax support, and discretionary support funds. This data provides a unique real-time insight into the socioeconomic situation of low-income households. Yet, we show that its promising potential for policy research remains largely untapped.

Long-term housing challenges: the tenure trajectories of EU migrant workers in the Netherlands

Finding a new house is an essential but challenging undertaking for migrant workers. Current understanding of these migrant housing trajectories is rudimentary, contrasting migrants with non-migrants, or looks at the housing situation at a certain point in time. This article presents a fine-grained and longitudinal perspective on housing trajectories including less-studied alternative tenures. Using sequence and clustering techniques on Dutch register data, it identifies patterns in tenure registrations of EU migrant workers in the Netherlands, over time. In the first years, alternative private rental arrangements are common, after which some migrants move on to more secure accommodation, while others leave the Netherlands or continue to stay in precarious and/or shared-housing arrangements. A distinction is made between relatively progressive improvement (leading to social rental or homeownership) and stagnating trajectories (long-term private rent, long-term informal registration and long-term shared housing). Regression analyses show how these housing trajectories are differentiated across socio-demographic variables and the structural conditions of the arrival city, as well as by employment sector. The findings contribute to the literature on migrant housing careers and underline the wide diversity of housing challenges. Although migrant workers play a crucial role in the economy, especially lower-income, older and single migrants have limited access to permanent and secure housing.

Too many or too few? On the optimal number of firms in the commons

In this paper, we consider common-pool non-renewable resource industries and study the socially optimal industry size. Our analysis is conducted in terms of an infinite-horizon differential game (with either open-loop or feedback strategies). We derive two main results. First, we show that there exists a unique state-independent efficiency-inducing industry size, ranging between 1 and infinity, if and only if the elasticity of the price-cost margin (capturing static market power) and the elasticity of the difference between social and private resource rents (capturing the tragedy of the commons) are the same. Second, allowing for entry/exit, we show that the regulator can set a license fee to be paid by firms to get access to the resource such that the endogenous number of firms in the equilibrium with regulated entry is socially optimal.

The violent uncanny: Exploring the material politics of austerity

Austerity erodes the foundations of our being and stunts the modalities of our becoming. This paper turns towards the austere materialities of decomposition, through the out-of-place presence of mould in the home, to document the violence of the austere housing crisis. Through an empirical engagement with the housing worlds of private and social renting tenants across the central belt of Scotland, I build upon geographical concerns with precarious home ownership, and the loss of material ‘things’, and begin to explore the decaying materialities of homes not-yet ours in ways that highlight how austerity is felt through the growth of, occupation by and presence of material ‘things’, in this case mould. By bringing into conversation housing studies and the geographies of violence, I introduce the concept of the ‘violent uncanny’ – the changing relation(s) between (non-)human actants through the collapsing of spatial ecologies that reshape ‘known’/normative (spatial) relations between material things. In so doing, three broader contributions are made: (1) the paper engages with the housing crisis violently, arguing for the importance of using the language of violence, (2) it adds to existing work on austere materialities, thinking about the ways in which austerity materially ‘presents’ itself, in order to render visible aspects of austere living that remain hidden from view and (3) it introduces a new theoretical concept to interpret how austerity is experienced within the home. Together, these contributions seek to foreground the political importance of documenting lived precarity to expose austerity for what it is: violent.

Social Rental Flats: Perceptions of Emerald Sky Tenants, East London Eastern Cape

The right to sufficient housing was established for the first time in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, time and experience have demonstrated that achieving this correctly is tough. Social housing can take the shape of purchased and restored flats, homes, or townhouses on Greenfield, infill, or inner-city blocks. The study's goal was to determine if social housing rental apartments in East London were cheap for low-income households and whether tenants were pleased with the administration of the flats (Emerald Flats). The study's aims were to determine if rental flats in social housing are a viable alternative for the low-income class, to examine the renters' socioeconomic situations, and to determine how residents feel about the social housing rental flats. This research assessed the affordability, administration, and safety of social housing rental units. Emerald Sky Social Housing served as the research study location. This study employed a quantitative strategy, with structured questionnaire surveys serving as the quantitative research approach. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 was used for the statistical analysis. The study's major findings indicated that respondents in social renting apartments were unable to afford rent and their monthly utilities. The study findings present various challenges that are faced by social house rentals in Emerald Sky. Keywords: Social rental, Breaking new ground, Human settlements, Affordability

독일 베를린주 임대차 규제에 관한 공법적 검토

Criticism has been raised over the legislative process to the extent that the revised legislation on the so-called Three Rent Acts in 2020 is called legislative dictatorship. The rent law is the subject of civil law, but from public law perspective, it can be regarded as one of regulatory legislations as part of a kind of housing policy. It can be said that it is a very important element of evaluation of the regulatory legislation whether it has undergone an appropriate process of deliberation based on our economic reality. This study deals with the regulation on the rent control in Berlin, which has recently become a problem in Germany, and the decision on unconstitutionality of the German Federal Constitutional Court. The Berlin’s rent cap is a very radical legislative attempt comparable to our Three Rent Acts. But, it is difficult to compare them in that German civil law as a whole, because of regulations that are not in Korean civil law. The above decision has a simple logical structure that the Act that introduced the Berlin’s rent cap is unconstitutional because the federation used competitive legislative authority completely. However, by devoting very long pages to explaining the German legislative history on social rent law, it warns that the rationality and prudence of legislation are important. Through the discussion on German rent regulations, the level of avoiding ideological discussions shown by German law, the systematic and balanced German civil law system, and the importance of a step-by-step and unified response to housing rent regulation can be seen. The level of Korean law has already well developed for a long time, and it is exceeding the level of simply translating foreign law. Therefore, it is silly to imitate German legislation without analyzing or deliberating on our economic situation.

Natural Resource Rents and Social Capital Interaction: New Evidence on the Role of Financial Development

The varied opinions on financial developmental impacts on growth in different economies have been the subject of considerable debates among economists during the last two decades, especially in natural-resource-rich countries. However, the role of financial development on a crucial channel of growth, i.e. social capital, has been neglected. Unlike previous studies, the level of income in resource-based economies has been considered an important factor influencing the way financial development affects social capital-resource rents’ interactions. Thus, in this paper, the impact of financial development as an infrastructure to turn natural capital into social capital has been investigated in two groups of resource-abundant countries using a panel data model during 2009:Q1-2016:Q4. The empirical results in the case of high-income economies show that a high level of financial development can ensure resource rents, positively influencing social capital. However, findings indicate an adverse impact of natural resource rents on social capital in medium-income countries.

ПОСТАНОВКА ПРОБЛЕМ ТЕОРИИ И ПРАКТИКИ СИСТЕМЫ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ВОСПРОИЗВОДСТВОМ ЖИЛИЩНОГО ФОНДА НА РЕГИОНАЛЬНОМ УРОВНЕ

Within the framework of this article, the author formulated a hypothesis about the need to formulate and solve problems of theory and practice of the housing stock reproduction management system at the regional level. The concepts of scientific justification for posing problems are singled out: technocratic, economic, mathematical, psychological, cultural. The reasons for posing problems are substantiated, the concepts of apparatus are developed, a variety of tools and methods, mechanisms, structural elements of the housing stock reproduction management system are systematized. The features of the existing system are highlighted: imbalance, monopoly, data bias, demographic recession, psychological preferences, territorial differentiation. The management of the reproduction of the housing stock takes the form of state externalities, carried out with the help of legislative and administrative acts that are social in nature and determine the conditions for social rent, social mortgages, the disposal of maternity capital, the provision of property tax deductions, the resettlement of a dilapidated fund, the provision of housing for the military, subsidies for young families , subsidies to those on the waiting list, the poor living in housing below social norms. A SWOT analysis of the management system was carried out. The most important qualitative and quantitative problems of the housing stock reproduction management system at the regional level have been identified.

A mechanism for forming an affordable housing market: russian and international characteristics

Today, the formation of the affordable housing market is one of the priorities of Russia’s socioeconomic policy. Its significance is due to the severity of the housing problem, deformations of the forming housing market, which are speculative in modern conditions with a constant rise in housing prices, and further limiting of its availability for the majority of the Russian population. The relevance of the study is confirmed by the high social significance of housing as a commodity, the presence of significant socioeconomic contradictions in the housing sector as well as the need to find ways to attract significant investment in the housing sector. Currently, about 83% of the housing stock is privately owned, about 13% is in social rent, and 4% in commercial rent. This structure is not effective enough, as it reduces the business and life activity of a large part of the population.

Intra-firm wage model: logic in the context of the rent concept T. Dolinina

The article presents the theoretical foundations of designing an intra-firm wage model that allows you to formalize this process. As the basis for the construction of the intra-company labor model, a labor complexity matrix is proposed, according to which labor is divided, on the one hand, into unskilled, qualified and highly skilled, on the other hand, into reproducible and unique. On the basis of the author's concept of social and labor rents, a functional and rental structure of wages for various types of wages with balance links of its elements has been developed. It allows you to design an intra-company wage model and define its parameters based on the distribution of the wage fund according to the types of key payments that implement the functions of the wage process.

Social variations in uptake of disability benefits: A census-based record linkage study.

Significant variation in disability-related social security benefits receipt might highlight sub-populations and groups with unmet needs and also have implications for areal indicators of disadvantage that are largely derived from uptake of benefits. In this paper we examine Disability Living Allowance (DLA), a non means-tested contribution towards disability-related living costs for disabled people aged less than sixty-five. ology: Three census-based measures of self-reported health (number of chronic physical disabilities; activity limitation (a little; a lot); and chronic poor mental health) were linked to contemporaneous DLA records. The 2011 Census returns provided individual demographic, socio-economic, social and area-level characteristics. DLA uptake was modelled using logistic regression, stratified into 0-15 and 16-64 year old age groups. Overall, 118329 (8.4%) of this population received DLA. Poor health outcomes were the main determinants for uptake, which was higher amongst females, those non-married and those of lower socio-economic status: for example those with no qualifications compared against third level education (ORad=1.80: 95%CI=1.75-1.85); and those social renting compared against those in more expensive owner occupation (ORadj=1.92: 1.83-2.02). Uptake was lower amongst Protestants than Catholics (ORadj=0.75: 0.74-0.77) and amongst immigrants (ORadj=0.36: 0.34-0.39) and slightly lower in rural communities. Poor health is the predominant determinant of disability benefits uptake but other social and socioeconomic factors have influence. These findings may assist in the reshaping of outreach programmes leading to better targeting of benefits, and therefore a more indirect influence on the derivation of area deprivation measures in the United Kingdom.

Инновационное отставание как фактор выкачивания ресурсов

The fundamental differences between the development of the economy based on domestic and imported innovations are revealed, shown by the example of agriculture in Russia. The formulas for creating value and generating profit in these two cases are given. A scheme has been drawn up that demonstrates the mechanism of pumping resources from innovatively backward countries to developed countries through the extraction of economic, environmental, social and political rents by using specific tools. The conclusion is made about the growing technological superiority of developed countries and the aggravation of the lag of innovation-dependent states in the case of conservation of their backwardness.

Международный опыт обеспечения жильем детей-сирот и детей, оставшихся без попечения родителей

the article presents an analysis of international experience in solving the housing problems of orphans and children left without parental care. These practices create certain opportunities for their adaptation in the conditions of the Russian Federation, taking into account the existing restrictions and socioeconomic risks. Among the promising opportunities for adapting international experience, the following can be distinguished: support of educational trajectories of orphans, ensuring their effective entry into the labor market, development of the institution of mentoring in the form of both state support and public charitable initiatives, development of the practice of social renting of housing from the municipal fund without the right to transfer it into the ownership of another person, expanding the representation of non-profit organizations in the field of social support for orphans and children left without parental care.