scholarly journals Public Housing for Lower-Middle-Income Families: New Jersey’s State Housing Program in the Late 1940s

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Keisuke Jinno
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Bond Referendum

This article addresses a lost housing alternative at the dawn of post-New Deal, homeowner-centered America. At the end of the 1940s, the State of New Jersey attempted to launch a state public housing program for lower-middle-income families who had been left out of both the private market for prospective homeowners and the existing public housing projects. The program, however, was incompatible with business-backed plans to create a mass homeownership society. Galvanized by anti-tax sentiment among current and prospective homeowners, voters rejected a state housing bond referendum necessary to the program. An additional factor was white residents’ politics of exclusion that produced anti-public housing hysteria. Finally, plan proponents’ lack of consensus about financial resources and grass-roots activities failed to sway public opinion and resulted in low voter turnout in central places.

scholarly journals Assessing the Egyptian Public Housing Policies and Governance Modes (1952-2020), Towards Achieving a Sustainable Integrated Urban Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Hager Abdel-Rahman ◽  
Yasser Elsayed ◽  
Doaa Abouelmagd
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Governance Modes

Public housing provision is one of the most urgent problems in Egypt; over the last 70 years, the leading provider was the state, problems were coping with the high demand, as well as the quality of the units concerning household's requirements.This paper discusses and analyzes the development of the international housing policies for low-income categories, from direct provision to sustainable integrated approach, compared to Egypt's public housing policies, governance modes during the last 70 years. This paper divides this period into four main phases according to the state political and economic approach in each phase, starting with the first intention for public housing projects through socialism, passing by the open door policy, capitalism, and the variety of housing schemes. Finally, the state initiatives after 2011 through the national social housing program.

A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Unitary Model ◽  
The Right

This chapter sets out why the connection between housing and the environment urgently needs to be moved centre stage in both the housing and climate debates. It links climate change and housing together conceptually through the centrality of home to the human existence. It sets out a new housing plan: a Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland which details the key solutions for transforming our housing systems to provide affordable, sustainable homes for all. This includes a new housing plan, A Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland: Affordable Sustainable Homes and Communities for All, including mixed income public housing for all, a dedicated Affordable Sustainable Homes Building Agency, reimagining public housing, transforming social housing from being treated as a stigmatized form of accommodation restricted to very low-income households to becoming a model of desirable housing available and attractive to a much broader range of low- and middle-income households, using public land for public and not-for-profit affordable sustainable homes, how the new housing model can be financed, and why a new housing model should be underpinned by the right to housing as foundation of housing policy and law. It develops indicators for assessing housing models: and compares the market (dualist) model and public, affordable, sustainable, human rights (unitary) model.

Users Satisfaction Of Public Housing Projects In Libya

2018 ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Huda Mohamed Elathtram ◽  
Mohammed Ramadan Almousi ◽  
Mahmed Wali Abdalgader Alsharef ◽  
Arch Basheer Musbah Khalifa Alnnaas
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Projects

‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe using space syntax

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Mark David Major
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Charles Jencks

Pruitt-Igoe, in St Louis, Missouri, United States, was one of the most notorious social housing projects of the twentieth century. Charles Jencks argued opening his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, ‘Modern Architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite.’ However, the magazine Architectural Forum had heralded the project as ‘the best high apartment’ of the year in 1951. Indeed, one of its first residents in 1957 described Pruitt-Igoe as ‘like an oasis in a desert, all of this newness’. But a later resident derided the housing project as ‘Hell on Earth’ in 1967. Only eighteen years after opening, the St Louis Public Housing Authority (PHA) began demolishing Pruitt-Igoe in 1972 [1]. It remains commonly cited for the failures of modernist design and planning.

scholarly journals The implications of political decisions on the economic situation in Egypt: انعكاسات القرارات السياسية على الوضع الاقتصادي في مصر

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdel Samie Allam
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Quantum Leap ◽  
New Suez Canal ◽  
Political Decisions

During the ten years before the revolution of January 2011, Egypt experienced political and economic conditions. During the period of its rule, the political system tried to issue political decisions that served the system of government and its control without making decisions in favor of the citizen. The economic situation became intolerable. The volume of spending on health and education has declined, unemployment has increased, and politically there has been a falsification of voter turnout and abuse of power by the security forces, In the Brotherhood, the situation was worse than that of President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's credit rating fell to low. The decrease in the credit rating means that Egypt's ability to pay its external and internal obligations has decreased. Unemployment indicators rose to 13.5% and poverty rates in Egypt rose to 25.5% in 2013 after official indicators showed that the poverty rate in Egypt was 23.5% During 2012. The volume of inflation rose to more than 17.5%, and the value of the local currency (Egyptian pound) declined and lost more than 18%. As for the economic situation under the current regime, there has been a quantum leap in the volume of national projects, which has influenced a series of positive political decisions. These include the establishment of the new Suez Canal, low-income housing projects and electricity sector restructuring projects, which gave a huge economic boost that led to the appreciation of the Egyptian pound against other foreign currencies

scholarly journals The Public Perception of People's Housing Program (PPR) for Slum Settlement Handling in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Yurnal Yurnal ◽  
Anis Shafika Binti Saiful Adli
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Housing Programs

The purpose of this study was to describe public perceptions of people’s housing programs for handling slums in Malaysia. Malaysia has begun organizing and fostering communities that have lived in slums since 1998 in the 'slum-free Malaysia vision 2005' program, and today Malaysia can be said to have successfully resolved slums, through public housing programs. The type of research used is this research is descriptive qualitative, using accidental sampling as sampling technique. Data collection methods used are interview and documentation methods, with research instruments in the form of interview guidelines. The results showed that the community strongly agreed with the existence of The People’s Housing Program (PPR), especially for the lower middle class and poor people in Malaysia. This program is able to realize the dream of the poor to be able to have a place to live that is suitable for living with family. Furthermore, the program itself is acknowledged by the community as being able to deal with slum settlements in Malaysia, and the poor who are biased in occupying slum areas voluntarily move to the houses provided by this PPR. So, people's perception of the Public Housing Program is very supportive especially to deal with slums in Malaysia.

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