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Building An Equitable And Inclusive City Through Housing Policies: Singapore’S Experience, Sock Yong Phang
Building An Equitable And Inclusive City Through Housing Policies: Singapore’S Experience, Sock Yong Phang
Research Collection School Of Economics
Inequality is an age-old concern. In recent years, the rise of income inequality has received worldwide media and policy attention, beginning with the Occupy movement of 2011-2012 and a wave of notable scholastic books such as Stiglitz (2012), Piketty (2014), and Atkinson (2015). Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, an unlikely bestseller, contained a vast amount of data showing that the rich are taking rising shares of income and wealth in the advanced economies. Piketty’s approach towards capital and wealth is an aggregative one, and he does not treat real estate or land as a different or distinct form of …
Policy Innovations For Affordable Housing In Singapore: From Colony To Global City, Sock Yong Phang
Policy Innovations For Affordable Housing In Singapore: From Colony To Global City, Sock Yong Phang
Research Collection School Of Economics
Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality. Singapore’s success in making home ownership possible for 90% of its population has attracted much attention internationally. This book represents a culmination of research by the author on key housing policy innovations for affordable housing. Housing policy changes were effected in the 1960s through reforms of colonial legislation and institutions dealing with state land acquisition, public housing, and provident fund savings. The comprehensive housing framework that was established enabled the massive resettlement of households from shophouses, slums and villages to high-rise government-built flats. In …
A Cross-Sectional Exploration Of Household Financial Reactions And Homebuyer Awareness Of Registered Sex Offenders In A Rural, Suburban, And Urban County., John Charles Navarro
A Cross-Sectional Exploration Of Household Financial Reactions And Homebuyer Awareness Of Registered Sex Offenders In A Rural, Suburban, And Urban County., John Charles Navarro
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
As stigmatized persons, registered sex offenders betoken instability in communities. Depressed home sale values are associated with the presence of registered sex offenders even though the public is largely unaware of the presence of registered sex offenders. Using a spatial multilevel approach, the current study examines the role registered sex offenders influence sale values of homes sold in 2015 for three U.S. counties (rural, suburban, and urban) located in Illinois and Kentucky within the social disorganization framework. Homebuyers were surveyed to examine whether awareness of local registered sex offenders and the homebuyer’s community type operate as moderators between home selling …
Avoiding The Mistakes Of The Past, Tom Dunne
Avoiding The Mistakes Of The Past, Tom Dunne
Articles
Tom Dunne explores the long term drivers of dysfunction in Ireland's housing markets and what a more sustainable housing system would look like.
All Party Oireachtas Committee On The Constitution Ninth Progress Report, Tom Dunne
All Party Oireachtas Committee On The Constitution Ninth Progress Report, Tom Dunne
Reports
Ireland, like many other countries with high rates of economic growth, is urbanising rapidly. There has been considerable emphasis on planning for this through the National Development Plan, the National Spatial Strategy, development guidelines and other measures. Through these the state intends that a proper planning process will lead growth rather than leaving it to market forces to drive development in what are regarded as undesirable directions. The latter it is feared will lead to unsuitable social, economic or physical outcomes. Unintended results have flowed from the implementation, or flawed implementation of many of these policies and have given rise …
Town Of Amesbury, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Amesbury, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report explored the town of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Amesbury’s municipal government was supported by diverse citizen groups and business organizations. The town was a suburban community with abundant natural resources and a delightful village core.
Town Of Boxford, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Boxford, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report explores the town of Boxford, Massachusetts. Boxford is a unique rural community in the Merrimack Valley and the Boston metropolitan area. It has no traffic lights, sidewalks or signs, and very few streetlights, or commercial or industrial activity. Because of its 50-year old 2-acre zoning and close proximity to Boston, which contribute to its high housing costs, this community is out of reach for most Massachusetts residents.
Town Of Lawrence, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Lawrence, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report takes a look at the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence, originally a rural farming town, was transformed into a major industrial center when Boston Entrepreneurs developed huge textile mills on the Merrimack River to use the power of its water falls. The mill owners built canals, a dam and reservoir, boarding houses and a machine shop for locomotives, creating one of the first industrial complexes in the country.
Town Of Andover, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Andover, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
Andover is a suburban community of 32 square miles with a population of 29,000. The town is located just 20 miles south of Boston at the intersection of I-93 and I-495. With easy access to the city and Logan Airport, Andover is home to many of the largest high-technology firms such as Hewlett-Packard, Raytheon, Digital, Gillette, and Genetics Institute.
Town Of Georgetown, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Georgetown, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report focuses on the town of Georgetown, Massachusetts. While it was still widely forested, with many acres of open and recreation land, the town also had a walkable village core as well as industrial and commercial development. The town was renowned for its thriving antique industry and also boasted an organ manufacturing company, a supermarket and an expanding public golf and country club.
Town Of Merrimac, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Merrimac, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
Starting out as a farming and maritime community in the 1600’s, Merrimac, Massachusetts became an active manufacturing community through the 19th century with thirty-one different carriage factories, and today has developed into principally a residential community.
Town Of Methuen, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Methuen, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
Methuen, Massachusetts played a significant role in this country’s industrial revolution, which began in the Merrimack Valley. In the mid-to late 19th century, mills along the Spicket River and Spicket Falls produced hats, shoes, and textiles.
Town Of Salisbury, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Salisbury, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
Salisbury, Massachusetts has the history and the skeleton of a typical New England village, but has lost much of the identifiable character to post 1950 regulated development. (Town of Salisbury Local Partnership Committee Economic Development Plan, 1996) Today Salisbury has two identifiable centers. The historic town center, known as Salisbury Square, and the Salisbury Beach…
Town Of Groveland, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Groveland, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report takes a look at Groveland, Massachusetts. Groveland is a small residential community that retains all of the characteristics of a friendly rural town in the setting of a convenient suburb. The town was incorporated in 1850, and changed gradually from an agricultural community to one that is almost wholly residential.
Town Of Newburyport, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of Newburyport, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
Newburyport is a diverse and thriving city that harmonizes commercial, residential and industrial needs. Nestled on the shores where the Merrimack River meets the Atlantic Ocean Newburyport is among the smallest cities in the state.
Moving Toward The Millennium With Open Space In Huntington, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Moving Toward The Millennium With Open Space In Huntington, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report includes presentation and examination of community, environmental and conservation/recreation issues. The information is then analyzed according to the needs of the town and incorporated into recommendations for future action.
Laying The Groundwork: Preparing For A Master Plan In Deerfield, Ma, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Laying The Groundwork: Preparing For A Master Plan In Deerfield, Ma, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
In April of 1998 a Master Plan Committee was established to start work toward the first Master Plan for Deerfield, Massachusetts. A major catalyst for this decision was chronic septic failure throughout much of Deerfield. This failure raised the question of whether or not Deerfield should expand its public sewer. Expanding the system would solve the immediate problem of septic failure, but could potentially encourage unwanted development and create a new cycle of problems.
Town Of North Andover, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Town Of North Andover, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
North Andover, Massachusetts lies along the banks of the Merrimack River and is surrounded by the Towns of Methuen, Haverhill, Boxford, Andover, Middleton, North Reading, and the City of Lawrence. The settlement of the town began in 1640 and was incorporated as Andover in 1646. North Andover is governed by an open Town Meeting form of government, a five-member Board of Selectmen and a Town Manager pursuant to a Home Rule Charter that went into effect in 1986.
Impacts Of Growth A Buildout Analysis, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Impacts Of Growth A Buildout Analysis, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This study was constructed to develop and submit a build-out analysis report to the town of New Salem, Massachusetts. The town's Planning Board was interested in finding ways to direct the potential development to preserve the town's in inherent character and maximizing revenues. In particular, they wanted to incorporate some of these measures in the subdivision regulations which were being rewritten.
Indsutrial Revitalization Plan Liberty Taylor Corridor, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Indsutrial Revitalization Plan Liberty Taylor Corridor, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report was designed to begin the community renewal program for Liberty-Taylor Industrial Corridor located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The objectives of the report was to describe current conditions the Liberty-Taylor Corridor; to analyze and update previous planning studies of the Corridor; to identify key roadblocks to investment in the Corridor, and to present possible solutions in order to stimulate reinvestment.