scholarly journals Inclusion by Co-Production of Social Housing: The Slovak Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Maria Murray Svidronova ◽  
Beata Mikušová Meričková ◽  
Juraj Nemec
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Housing Allowance ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

The field of social housing is one of many subjected to the potentials of co-production. Specifically, the Sustainable Development Goals target 11.1 is “By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums”. The current Slovak “State Housing Policy Concept to 2020”, among others, defines specific objectives, e.g. increasing or at least maintaining the same share of public expenditure on housing, introducing a new housing allowance, and supporting the development of the non-profit sector in housing provision. The goal of this article is to investigate to what extent co-production – as joint working of the public, private for profit and private not-for profit sectors – has the capacity to address the gap in the provision of social housing in the Slovak Republic. Using the method of case study, the scale and forms of co-production in social housing are investigated and the key factors and barriers of co-production in this area are analysed. The authors suggest that co-production of social housing is the most efficient method of delivery of social housing, improves sustainability, and helps to include the beneficiaries into society. However, this approach requires extra energy from the stakeholders – especially from public officials – and is thus still rarely used in practice.

ADOPTING NON-CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DELIVERY

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignatius Omuh ◽  
Patience Tunji-Olayeni ◽  
Rapheal Ojelabi ◽  
Adedeji Afolabi ◽  
Yimika Erinle
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Waste Incineration ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Partial Replacement ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Development Goals

The second greatest human need is shelter and this indicates the necessity for everyone to be housed. Adequate housing provision reduces a host of other risk that the sustainable development goals are expected to reduce or even eliminate. However, due to policies, rapid population growth, rural-urban migration, housing provision for the homeless populace fall short. This paper highlights the prospects and problems of using non-conventional materials for low cost or affordable housing provision. The non-conventional materials investigated included earthworm cast as partial replacement of cement, stabilized earth bricks, bamboo, ash from waste incineration. A survey research was designed, and 200 questionnaires were distributed to both professionals and end users of housing. The findings showed that funding was a major obstacle to affordable housing provision, but this could be improved by employing non-conventional sustainable materials. The findings also showed that thought there was inadequate funding, lack of awareness of some of these materials were critical to the utilization of these materials. It was recommended that the potential users be sensitized to promote sustainable construction practices.

scholarly journals Innovative Arrangements between Public and Private Actors in Affordable Housing Provision: Examples from Austria, England and Italy

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard van Bortel ◽  
Vincent Gruis
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Private Actors

Affordable housing is increasingly developed, financed and managed by a mix of state, third-sector, market and community actors. This has led to the emergence of various hybrid governance and finance arrangements. This development can be seen as part of a general long-term neoliberal trend in government policies, and social, cultural and economic developments. It is therefore likely that the hybridity and variety of governance and finance of affordable housing will continue to grow. This article discusses innovative hybrid arrangements from Austria, England and Italy, in which governments, private and non-profit actors collaborate to increase the supply of affordable housing. These cases illustrate how the provision of affordable housing in a neoliberal context can benefit from the involvement of market actors and communities. Nevertheless, they also show that governments continue to play a crucial role in initiating and facilitating these arrangements.

scholarly journals Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing?

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony (Tony) D H Crook ◽  
Christine M E Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Guidance Note ◽  
Planning Gain ◽  
Policy Guidance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Current Mechanism

The current mechanism for providing affordable housing through the planning system in England is based on negotiation within the framework of Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 and Circular 6/98. In this paper the authors examine three groups of questions. First, on the development of the policy, they look at how the need for affordable housing is assessed, how the policy evolved, and how it is currently operated. Second, on the principles and potential outputs of the policy they look at how the approach fits into the principles of betterment taxation, what the results are likely to be ‘on the ground’ in terms of price and output of housing, and whether these are consistent with taxation principles. Third, they examine what the evidence is so far on the impact of planning obligations on affordable housing provision. Finally, the authors develop a typology of likely outcomes, particularly regarding who pays for affordable housing.

The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Rental Sector ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
Main Form ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Lost Decade ◽  
Housing Benefit

This chapter outlines the ‘lost decade’ of social housing provision in Ireland: the austerity and marketisation policies that resulted in the collapse of social housing building from 2009 to 2019. It shows how austerity measures involved an intensification of the ongoing neoliberal shift from the direct building of social housing by local authorities to the marketisation of social housing provision through the private sector. The forms of marketisation are detailed including the increased use of the private rental sector for social housing (via subsidies and leasing), but also the purchasing of units from the private market. It details how from 2010 onwards, the provision of social housing via subsidies to the private rental sector almost entirely replaced direct building of social housing. This includes the Governments housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland which embedded marketisation and austerity, by using the housing benefit - the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) as the main form of housing provision. It details how HAP and other private market forms of social housing provision worsens the housing supply crisis, is poor value for money, results in tenant insecurity and discrimination, and facilitates the financialisation of housing. And how this is one of the main reasons the Irish housing system suffered such a major shock with the emergence of a new homelessness crisis in 2013.

scholarly journals Understanding #WorldEnvironmentDay User Opinions in Twitter: A Topic-Based Sentiment Analysis Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Reyes-Menendez ◽  
José Saura ◽  
Cesar Alvarez-Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
High Level

The main objective of this exploratory study is to identify the social, economic, environmental and cultural factors related to the sustainable care of both environment and public health that most concern Twitter users. With 336 million active users as of 2018, Twitter is a social network that is increasingly used in research to get information and to understand public opinion as exemplified by Twitter users. In order to identify the factors related to the sustainable care of environment and public health, we have downloaded n = 5873 tweets that used the hashtag #WorldEnvironmentDay on the respective day. As the next step, sentiment analysis with an algorithm developed in Python and trained with data mining was applied to the sample of tweets to group them according to the expressed feelings. Thereafter, a textual analysis was used to group the tweets according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), identifying the key factors about environment and public health that most concern Twitter users. To this end, we used the qualitative analysis software NVivo Pro 12. The results of the analysis enabled us to establish the key factors that most concern users about the environment and public health such as climate change, global warming, extreme weather, water pollution, deforestation, climate risks, acid rain or massive industrialization. The conclusions of the present study can be useful to companies and institutions that have initiatives related to the environment and they also facilitate decision-making regarding the environment in non-profit organizations. Our findings will also serve the United Nations that will thoroughly review the 17 SDGs at the High-level Political Forum in 2019.

Municipal financing for sustainable development: A case of South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 757-774
Author(s):  
CJ Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

This article explores the financing of the sustainable development goals through the budget process with the aim of achieving sustainable development. Existing theory points out that local government budgets play an important role in pro-poor service delivery. However, underfunding can be seen across all areas in South Africa, resulting in municipalities that cannot function properly and look after the needs of their inhabitants. Based on a study of selected municipalities in South Africa, this paper tries to answer the question of whether municipalities allocate and spend their financial resources to pursue the 17 sustainable development goals. The findings indicate that as the medium for achieving the sustainable development goals, the focus of local government budgets has to shift from merely providing basic services to creating and facilitating an environment suitable for achieving sustainable development. If the emphasis of municipal spending does not change, governments will find it difficult to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Mobile Services for Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 342-354
Author(s):  
Alan Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

This chapter discusses the impact of mobile services in developing nations. It focuses on the opportunities for academic research to improve the services which contribute to the lives of citizens in the developing world and make progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. In many instances, the business models used in the developing economies serve to make the services more sustainable, and relieve some of the burden on governments which have traditionally been responsible for health, energy, sanitation, education and other basic services. This article also investigates the key role of co-creation in defining and developing the services that contribute to development. It concludes with a set of research challenges for furthering the progress towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals through the use of mobile technologies.

scholarly journals The barriers to re-purposing not-for-profit real property assets

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Andrea Sharam ◽  
Ian McShane ◽  
Lyndall Bryant ◽  
Ashton De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Content Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Land Holdings

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the barriers to the re-purposing of under-utilised real property assets owned by Australian not-for-profit (“NFP”) organisations for affordable housing provision. Design/methodology/approach – Exploratory research was undertaken with five diverse (non-housing) NFP organisations. Findings – The research indicates that NFP organisations who are not principally engaged in housing provision, but hold surplus or under-utilised land and property assets, may be willing partners in affordable housing provision. However a range of institutional and structural barriers would need to be overcome for housing developments to occur on under-utilised NFP organisations land holdings. Research limitations/implications – The small scale of the study limits generalisation from the research findings. However, the findings point to an opportunity for innovation in housing land supply that warrants larger scale research. Practical implications – This research provides evidence that a source of well-located land is potentially available for future affordable housing provision, but that NFP organisations would require skills and financial resourcing in order to make their land available for this purpose. Social implications – Well-located land is a major cost input for the provision of affordable housing, and the re-purposing of NFP organisations land or assets for affordable housing could make a significant contribution to the stock of social housing. Originality/value – There has been no research on how NFP organisations view opportunities to repurpose their land for affordable housing despite this sector being actively encouraged to do so. This paper reports the first Australian study of dispositions and barriers to the re-use NFP organisations land assets.

Non-Profit Organization Involvement Into the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-179
Author(s):  
Jarmila Duháček Šebestová ◽  
Zuzana Palová ◽  
Petr Kantor ◽  
Vojtěch Beck
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Research Gap

Non-profits are an essential part of the community, reaching many sustainable development goals (SDG) without naming and promoting them. They can be empowered to do more. Non-profits should make the SDGs a prominent point to demonstrate why clients and consumers should buy or use their services to reduce waste and recycle. According to the research gap within the Czech environment, the chapter's main point is to present the current situation by qualitative evaluation based on three case studies of a non-profit organization. SDGs are divided according to benefits to the community, such as social, economic, and environmental. Case studies show how difficult it is to identify involvement in individual goals and conflict with its strategy. The uniqueness of the chapter lies in the presentation of its self-evaluation tool, suitable especially for non-profit organizations.

scholarly journals Key factors for ensuring sustainable development of rural regions of Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
A.R. Soltangazinov ◽  
◽  
A.S. Narynbayeva ◽  
D.A. Ilyassova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

Main problem: Currently, there are various socio-economic and environmental problems in the development of rural regions, among the key ones: access to basic services, lack of transport connectivity, inadequate social, housing infrastructure, and others. Achieving sustainable development of the territory is one of the important priorities, which is of great importance for any state. Sustainable development is understood as harmonious development from the perspective of the economy, social sphere and ecology. At the same time, the sustainable development of socio-economic and natural systems is not possible if many factors and conditions are not taken into account that can directly affect the current state and long-term sustainability of their functioning and interference is not created on these processes within the framework of the implementation of various policies by the state. Purpose: In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify and study the key factors that determine and contribute to the balanced development of rural regions of the country in the context of sustainable development goals and objectives. Methods: Empirical methods of economic cognition, methods of induction and deduction, synthesis, as well as logical methods were used in the framework of scientific research. Results and their significance: When classifying significant factors that influence the formation of sustainable rural development, it is necessary to take into account an essential feature of sustainable development – a harmonious combination of economic, social and environmental components of social development. Taking into account the logic of this study, based on the variety of factors contributing to the sustainable development of rural a reas, their systematization has been carried out.

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