Sustainable Housing in Australia - Fiscal Incentives and Regulatory Regimes - Current Developments - Policies for the Future

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Blazey ◽  
Peter S. Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Fiscal Incentives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Regulatory Regimes

scholarly journals Sustainable housing as an approach to adaptive built environment to COVID-19 (case study: Keudah walk-up flat in Banda Aceh)

2021 ◽  
Vol 881 (1) ◽  
pp. 012012
Author(s):  
Dyah Erti Idawati
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Domestic Activity ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Banda Aceh ◽  
Private Individual

Abstract A home is one of the basic humans needs. In Covid 19 era, the conventional concept of a home has been challenged by the new face of requirement for covid 19 protocol. A home is not only functioned as a private individual domestic activity but it has also been used as a response of its new tasks as an office (WFH concept) or as a healing facility (self quarantine system). Another challenge for development nowadays is the limitation of natural resources. Thus, it is essensial that every development need to considered sustainable approach. This paper will explore on how sustainable approach implemented in walk-up flats and how the design adapts to global pandemic. Qualitative methods will be used with observation and interview as the main data collection. The finding of this study reveals that most of sustainable criteria has not yet implemented in Keudah walk-up flat. Accordingly, sets of design concepts for walk-up flats in Banda Aceh are proposed. Finally, the proposed concept can be used in the future, in order to adjust the need to prevent covid 19 as well as other pandemic in the future.

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

Interactive Exhibition as a Form of Participation in the Future of Sustainable Housing

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
Juan Bautista Echeverría ◽  
Iosu Gabilondo ◽  
Teresa Meana Rodríguez ◽  
Juana Otxoa-Errarte ◽  
Claudia Pennese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Color Code ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
The City

The Gipuzkoa branch of the Basque and Navarre College of Architects organized, within the MUGAK Architecture Biennial, the exposition “The Transgenerational House.” It took place in a pavilion specially built for the purpose in a public space in the city of San Sebastian (Spain). In it, both a conventional furnished home and an alternative one, with the possibility of allowing free spatial divisions and furnishing distribution, were recreated. Some architectural teams showed their experiences on housing. A set of components with a color code was developed to link the two homes and the work of the architects. The pavilion was opened to the public, which had access to the contained information in a partially directed way and participated answering to posed specific questions. Additionally, 10 structured workshops with different collectives were organized, making specific proposals on the alternative home. The overall exposition is shown, reflecting on the advantages and limitations of citizen participation as an instrument of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Life Chances: thinking with art to generate new understandings of low-income situations

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Debbie Watson ◽  
Sue Cohen ◽  
Nathan Evans ◽  
Marilyn Howard ◽  
Moestak Hussein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Regulatory Regimes ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Families With Children

This chapter explores how contemporary social practice art materialises interactions between regulatory regimes and low-income families with children and enables disruptions of regulatory regimes in ways not possible using traditional social science approaches. It focuses on a research team that included artists Close and Remote. Here, the chapter explains how the team co-produced, with community members and academics, a socially engaged artwork — Life Chances — that aimed to generate new knowledges about the regulatory regimes that low-income families with children experience. Aiming towards a form of improvisational empathy, Life Chances worked with Thomas More's (1516) Utopia and Ruth Levitas's (2013) Utopia as Method as ‘a form of speculative sociology of the future’. By staging and troubling contradictory notions of ‘life chances’ through art, the chapter specifically asks how the regulatory services that families encounter in two urban settings — the Easton area of Bristol and Butetown, Riverside and Grangetown in Cardiff — shape, constrain, and enable the life chances of individual families and communities.

scholarly journals Exploring Housing Policies in Five Swedish Municipalities: Alternatives and Priorities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Heller ◽  
Lisa Ekstam ◽  
Maria Haak ◽  
Steven M. Schmidt ◽  
Björn Slaug
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
Policy Solutions

Abstract Introduction: Housing shortage due to population growth within metropolitan areas, combined with an ageing population has put pressure on current housing provision policies in Sweden. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of how municipalities currently address housing accessibility issues and to explore what types of policy solutions they consider for the future.Material and methods: Five Swedish municipalities were selected to represent a diversity of the population, housing provision approaches, and geographical areas. To understand current housing policies, two key actors (e.g. public officials, housing adaptation grant managers, city architects, etc.) from each municipality participated in semi-structured interviews (N=10). Subsequently, those key actors, two senior citizens, and three researchers participated in a research circle to explore future policy solutions. Data were analyzed using content analysis.Results: The interviews revealed common approaches to deal with housing accessibility issues such as regular renovations and maintenance, individual adaptations based on specific needs, and seeking collaboration with private housing actors on housing provision matters. Possible measures suggested for the future included increasing the national coordination of housing accessibility policies, amending legislation to only allow the construction of housing according to strengthened accessibility standards, and introducing economic incentives for seniors to move from housing with poor accessibility to more accessible accommodations,Conclusions: Municipalities struggle with the lack of accessible and affordable housing for the ageing population. The results suggest that collaboration needs to be improved between all actors involved in housing policies. The overall housing standard in Sweden is high, but preventive measures within the current law may be needed to strengthen the construction of more accessible and affordable housing for the population ageing in place.

scholarly journals Economic capital for defined benefit pension schemes: An application to the UK Universities Superannuation Scheme

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE T PORTEOUS ◽  
PRADIP TAPADAR ◽  
WEI YANG
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Capital Requirements ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Regulatory Regimes ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis article considers the amount of economic capital that defined benefit (DB) pension schemes potentially need to cover the risks they are running. A real open scheme, the Universities Superannuation Scheme, is modelled and used to illustrate our results and, as expected, economic capital requirements are large. We discuss the appropriateness of these results and what they mean for the DB pension scheme industry and their sponsors. The article is particularly pertinent following the recent European Commission Green Paper on the future of European pensions systems, its call for advice on reviewing the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive and the introduction of the Basel 2 and Solvency 2 risk-based regulatory regimes for banking and insurance, respectively.

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