Browsing by Subject "Housing"

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    Addressing the Challenges of Dilapidated and Substandard Housing in Stevens County, MN
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2013-08-16) Ehrenberg, Scott; Moore, Olin; Fredrick Wang, Laura
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    Age of Concrete: Housing and the Imagination in Mozambique's Capital, c. 1950 to Recent Times
    (2015-05) Morton, David Simon
    This thesis is about what historically has been one of the greatest preoccupations for residents of Maputo, Mozambique: the securing of a place to live. For most, this has meant the construction of a house in the flood-prone informal areas of the city, known as the subúrbios, and the maintenance of that house over successive generations. To consider where people have lived is to explore how they have lived, what they have cared about, and what they have worked for, and so ultimately this thesis is about how housing has long embodied not just the “making do” of urban living – the emphasis of much of the scholarship on African cities – but also some of people’s most keenly felt aspirations. The period studied embraces the colonial and postcolonial eras in roughly equal measure, beginning in the late 1940s when Maputo, now a metropolis of some two million, was a small port city called Lourenço Marques. Because Maputo was one of the relatively few cities in Africa where explosive growth took place for a full generation while still under colonial rule, the city’s built landscape offers a window onto the changing dynamics of everyday life at very different historical moments. My research rests on a rigorous project of oral history, with interviews with approximately 100 individuals in Mozambique and Portugal over several years. Addressed are how people responded in the past to the ever-looming threat of removal; how they negotiated with landowners; and how they contended with neighbors with whom they shared an all-too-elastic boundary line. I investigate the myriad unwritten rules that governed space, how such rules were enforced, and how disputes were resolved, or not resolved. The result is to demonstrate how, through the medium of housing, urban Mozambicans not only gave specific content to their visions of modernity, but also to authority, governance, and the state – conceptions that took on a new relevance in the years after independence from Portugal in 1975. As a new state struggled into being, and focused on rural issues, the nature of urban citizenship was being shaped considerably from below.
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    American Indians on the East Side of St Paul
    (2000) Community Outreach Partnership Center; American Indian Research and Policy Institute
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    Bottineau Corridor Housing Needs & Affordability Assessment
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2014-05-19) Porter, Dean; Davies-Deis, David; Damiano, Anthony; Johnson, Wesley
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    City of Ramsey Housing Engagement Plan
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2017) Bai, Shunhua; Degerstrom, Andrew; Gemheart, Adrienne; Kohlhass, Alex; Lauderdale, Casey; Schneider, Olivia
    This project was completed as part of the 2017-2018 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Ramsey. Ramsey’s housing plan was last updated in 2008. The plan identified numerous strategies for achieving the City’s housing goals, including increased housing density, redeveloping underutilized land, and engaging underserved populations. Since then, the City has made good progress in terms of achieving its workforce and senior housing goals, but public support for some of the City’s other housing goals has not been as strong. The City requested assistance developing a communication/outreach strategy to make the case for underrepresented housing types and the value they add to the community. Students in Dr. Dan Milz’s Planning and Participation Processes addressed some of the myths around higher density housing, identified strategies for engaging the public around housing issues based on case studies of other communities, and piloted a mapping engagement strategy that can be used with the public. The students’ final report and poster are available.
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    East Seventh: A Cosmopolitan Corridor
    (2001) Daniel, Thomas
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    The effect of light rail transit service on nearby property values: Quasi-experimental evidence from Seattle
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2018) Ransom, Michael R.
    This paper examined the effect of the construction of light rail transit stations on surrounding residential property values in Seattle, Washington. It studied sales of homes in the areas around the seven stations that serve primarily residential areas in the Rainier Valley, using a difference-in-differences regression technique to obtain plausibly causal estimates of the effect of new rail service. For these seven stations, the estimated impact of light rail service was positive for only one station and negative for two stations. Estimated impacts for the other stations were small and statistically insignificant. These results suggest that light rail service did not provide value to the neighborhoods in the Rainier Valley of Seattle. I speculate that the transport service provided by light rail was not a significant improvement relative to the bus lines that serviced the area before light rail was built.
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    Essays on subcontracting, competitive bidding, and dynamic housing demand.
    (2009-10) Miller, Daniel Patrick
    The first essay quantifies and compares the impact of contractual incompleteness on subcontracting and in-house contracting costs. I examine 2,200 individual construction work items (i.e. drilling, concrete, traffic striping) on 32 bridge projects procured by the California Department of Transportation through competitive bidding. I use ex-post revisions to work item contracts to construct a measure of contractual incompleteness. I model strategic bidding behavior and derive a new structural approach to estimate costs from bids. The results show that contractual incompleteness raises procurement costs, up to 12% for subcontracted work. The effect for in-house work is much smaller. The results provide one of the first pieces of quantitative evidence supporting the incomplete contracting theories of the firm. In the U.S., macroeconomic policy makers are concerned about how consumers will respond to falling incomes, nominal home prices, falling income, rising mortgage interest rates and tightening credit standards. In the second essay, we estimate and simulate a dynamic structural model of housing demand. The model allows for realistic features of the housing market including non-convex adjustment costs from buying and selling a home and credit constraints from minimum downpayment requirements. We use the forward simulation procedure of Bajari, Benkard and Levin (2007) to estimate the structural parameters using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Given the estimated parameters, we simulate the partial equilibrium consumption and housing and financial asset accumulation response by consumers to negative income and home price shocks and a tightening of credit constraints. The simulation results demonstrate that many households do not adjust their stock of housing, but rather absorb the negative shocks by depleting home equity and reducing consumption. The intuition behind this result is simple---households only move two to three times before retirement. Because they are locked in, changes in housing market conditions do not influence their level of housing stock.
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    Expanding Opportunities for Single Parents through Housing. Guidelines for New and Existing Housing and Neighborhoods that Meet the Needs of Single-Parent Families.
    (Minneapolis: Minneapolis/St. Paul Family Housing Fund., 1988) Cook, Christine; Vogel-Heffernen, Mary; Lukermann, Barbara L; Pugh, Sherie; Wattenberg, Esther
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    Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
    (2018-02) Alkhenaizi, Ghadeer
    Bahraini households have witnessed a transition from tradition to modernity since the 1960s, in response to the fleeting economic prosperity of the era of oil exportation in the region, by moving from the traditional courtyard house to the single family house. But subsequently, the global economic downturn in 2008 forced a gradual end to oil dependency, causing a detrimental impact on living standards, particularly housing, for a majority of the Gulf region residents. The constantly shifting and transforming social and political climate created significant pressures on the welfare mechanism, which then placed citizens on twenty-years-long waiting lists for social housing services. To alleviate the burden, many families opted to provide housing for their adult children to accommodate their new families, by adapting and expanding their existing dwelling. This paper uses mixed methodologies to study and examine the sustainability of the remodeled housing in support of transitioning extended families.
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    Has Mexico City’s shift to commercially produced housing increased car ownership and car use?
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2015) Guerra, Erick
    Mexico City’s principal form of housing production has shifted over the past two decades. More households now purchase houses in large commercially built housing developments than move into informal settlements. Looking at 1500 households in two suburban municipalities from a 2007 metropolitan travel survey, this study is the first to quantify differences in car ownership and car use across households in informal settlements and commercial housing developments. Accounting for income, proxies for wealth, household composition, and geography, households living in commercial housing developments are likely to own more cars and drive more than similar households in neighboring informal settlements. A test for residential self-selection finds no unobserved correlations across households that own cars and live in commercial housing developments, suggesting that the included controls do a good job of capturing the effects of residential self-selection or that the effects are limited. Something about the local land use and design of new commercial housing developments appears conducive to car ownership and use. Differences between the two settlement types, including more parking, wider streets, less-connected street-grids, and less accessible transit stops in commercial settlements, likely play a role.
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    Homelessness, housing, and health geography: the impact of housing on the health of chronically Ill homeless adults.
    (2011-08) Petroskas, Dawn
    Interventions are needed to reduce the health disparities that exist in homeless populations. Housing, often viewed as an outcome to be achieved, has become increasingly recognized as an innovative health care intervention. Through the lens of health geography, this study sought to understand how housing is health care for formerly long-term homeless adults with chronic illnesses. The study (a) explores how the places of homelessness impact disease management, (b) identifies the processes by which the home becomes a therapeutic landscape, (c) explicates the place effects of housing on health, and (d) uncovers nursing‟s „place‟ on supportive housing teams. A sample of formerly homeless adults (n=16) was interviewed. Nursing (n=2) and non-nursing (n=9) service providers participated in focus groups. Findings reveal that homeless adults face extreme environmental, spatial, and social conditions, demanding creative strategies to manage illness. Closing the door on homelessness and making the home into a therapeutic landscape involves: negotiating home space with old and new social networks, finding a place that meets needs and desires, setting up a personal home, and enjoying home‟s sensual pleasures. The home affords a sense of normalcy and a desire to care for one‟s health. It also gives one the ability to care for health. Home essentials for health include: water, shelter, a private bathroom and shower, one‟s own bed for sleep and recovery, kitchen amenities, an electrical outlet, four walls, space and place for medications, an address and telephone, a place for pets, and a safe neighborhood. Nurses can be figurative stepping-stones out of homelessness and into health care. As care navigators, they assume some of the burden of disease management and triage, which is important for those newly housed and entering care for the first time. Providing care work on the street and in the home gives nurses an intimate knowledge of how „place‟ impacts a person‟s health narrative. These narratives are shared to advocate for client needs and encourage moral and political action. It is hoped that findings spur research on housing‟s effect on chronic illnesses; support homeless, housing, and health care policy; and guide nurses in place-based care work.
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    HOMELink Hmong Program Evaluation
    (2000) Xiong, Kong Sue