Essays about: "Cooperative housing"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 26 essays containing the words Cooperative housing.

1. 21. Participation in Sustainable Housing: A case study of participation in a Swedish housing cooperative’s sustainability efforts

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Lara Hale; [2012]
   Keywords : participation; deliberation; sustainability; social learning; regeneration; urban; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Sustainable development is now a part of environmental, social, and economic agendas all over the world. Sustainability projects are cropping up in urban areas, including projects in the housing sector aimed at sustainable regeneration. Simultaneously, it is now recognized that public participation is an essential character of implementing change. READ MORE

3. 22. Rental or cooperative aperment : A cost and risk analysis of the housing market in Malmö

   University essay from Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU

   Author : Christoffer Wallertz; Karolina Henningsson; [2012]
   Keywords : Housing market; Malmö; housing cost; risk; consumption space; risk margin;

   Abstract : This thesis is analysing the housing market situation in Malmö. The reason for the research is the always equally relevant choice between two types of housing- cooperative apartments and rentals. Cost and risk is compared between the two in order to see what accommodation is preferable from cost and risk aspects. READ MORE

4. 23. Conversion of municipal rental units into cooperatively owned dwellings - an empirical study of which factors that affect the price and the conversion decision

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Johanna Lannvik; Sara Damberg; [2011]
   Keywords : Rental property valuation; Rent regulation; Housing cooperative conversion;

   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to investigate which factors that determine the acquisition price per square meter for rental properties, when converting a municipally owned rental property into cooperatively owned apartments, and on the tenant's decision to go through a conversion. We arrive at the conclusion that there are statistically significant indications that variables as rent per square meter, the tenure type leasehold and the share of vacant apartments in the property to be converted affects the price. READ MORE

5. 24. Giving Voice to the Choices and Strategies of Poor People in Reaction to what they Imagine Housing Policies to be: A Micro-Ethnographic Study On ‘Juntando Manos’, a Housing Cooperative Located in the Reparto Mariana Sanzon, Leon-Nicaragua

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Solange Sanchez Diaz; [2010]
   Keywords : Economic Capital; Choices and Strategies of poor people.; Agency; Key words: Field; Habitus; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this micro-ethnographic study was to bring to light the choices and strategies of poor people in reaction to what they imagined housing policies to be in Nicaragua. The analysis used four of Bourdieu’s concepts which are Habitus, Capital, Field, and Agency and his structuralistic constructivism and interpretivism within a mainly phenomenological approach. READ MORE

6. 25. Public spaces in Bolivian context. SEMAPA as a case study, Cochabamba, Bolivia

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad

   Author : Ida Marttila; [2005]
   Keywords : Bolivia; Cochabamba; Developing country; Third World; Spatial planning; Public spaces; Cooperative housing; MFS;

   Abstract : In 1984, employees from the water company SEMAPA founded the housing area of SEMAPA. The area is a sub-area of District 1, a city district situated in the north part of the city of Cochabamba. This area consists of detached houses provided with technical infrastructure, such as water and sewage network. READ MORE