Essays about: "Low-income Housing"

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  1. 1. Growing Stronger Together: Cultivating socioeconomic community development through social mix housing policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gloria Saccone; [2023]
    Keywords : Social mix; social capital; housing policy; urban development; public housing; social housing; Denmark; meta-ethnography; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The thesis focuses on the use of social mix policies within the framework of Denmark's public housing system and their impact on economic connectedness and upward mobility for low-income, vulnerable beneficiaries. By conducting a meta-ethnographic review, the research aims to examine a total of six key ethnographic studies on the implementation of social mix strategies, with a view to generating a new, comprehensive conceptualisation of their contribution to socioeconomic mobility outcomes. READ MORE

  3. 2. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : AnaCapri Mauro; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Vulnerability; Volcanic Hazards; Disaster Justice; Risk Governance; Temporal Analysis; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. READ MORE

  4. 3. Assessing the Impact of Planning Practice on Mitigating Spatial Segregation : Study of Three Medium-sized Cities of Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema teknik och social förändring

    Author : Muhammad Hamza; [2022]
    Keywords : Segregation; Spatial Planning; Planners; Developers; Policy; Social Mix; Immigrants;

    Abstract : The increasing diversity of people in the cities due to global processes like immigration makes the cities multicultural. However, multicultural cities become prone to conflicts as the citizens of different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds are put together in the city. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Inflation Sensitivity of the Swedish Pension System : A study on how inflation affects the equality of consumption between Swedish pensioners

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Moa Torstensson; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish pension system; Inflation; Pension; Equality; Equality of consumption; Inflation sensitivity; Discretionary spending;

    Abstract : The much-debated topic of the pension system together with the currently elevated levels of inflation give rise to the question of how well the pension system is equipped to deal with a prolonged period of inflation. The current system was introduced in the 1990s and since then it has been operating in a period of low and stable inflation. READ MORE

  6. 5. Housing mix for socially mixed neighbourhoods : A study of socioeconomic residential segregation in Swedish midsized cities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Josefine Sjöholm; [2022]
    Keywords : residential segregation; socioeconomic; housing mix; social mix; housing market; boendesegregation; socioekonomi; bygga blandat; social blandning; bostadsmarknad;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study in how far housing mix contributes to social mix in Swedish midsized cities 2017. Social mix is a policy in Sweden argued to reduce socioeconomic residential segregation, by implementing housing mix to achieve heterogenous residential areas. READ MORE