tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91733380965669938672024-02-07T11:59:43.818-08:00Up-Site housing - Official Community of Practice BlogThe concept of fast, cheap, integrated housing is fleeting unless it is strictly regulated, flexible and profitable to do so. Due to low cost construction, sub-standard design and low maintenance, housing in this range often results in overcrowded, unsightly and unhygienic conditions. Inevitably, neighboring real estate values fall, squatter or slums might develop and incidences of petty crime might increase. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-87973603488569326472020-06-10T19:16:00.000-07:002020-06-10T19:17:08.140-07:00Post Covid relook at Foreign Dormitory standards<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-57641821295084173752019-02-18T23:39:00.004-08:002019-02-18T23:45:42.838-08:001960's Soviet-era housing facing demolition <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The Kowa Public Apartment Complex was planned in Mihama, a coastal town in Aichi prefecture that has suffered from depopulation. A number of 2 and 3-story </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">danchi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> buildings built in the 1950s plagued with structural deterioration and vacancies were to be torn down and replaced. But rather than building up, the town wanted to prioritize a warmer style of living that was closer to the ground. One that would be friendly to parents raising children but also seniors.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-68166684087325897952018-12-26T01:17:00.001-08:002018-12-26T01:18:37.425-08:00Best Modular Housing Unit: MOVIT by Pod Structures Singapore<div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Unica77LLRegular; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; padding: 0px;">
Founded in Singapore in 2015, <a href="http://podstructures.com/" style="color: #888888; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s;">Pod Structures</a> is a multi-disciplinary design and innovation start-up that produces solutions related to the field of modular and prefabricated construction. Earlier this week the firm launched its pilot modular home project called <span style="font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MOVIT.</span> </div>
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Installed at the front lawn of the startup’s office and workshop facility on Loyang Street, the 32-square-metre modular home is decked as a studio apartment comprising a living-dining area, a bathroom and a bedroom. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-12521493622256213372017-02-01T03:13:00.002-08:002017-02-01T03:14:41.347-08:00IKEA's BOKLOK compact prefab housing units<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-21898928787441408542016-01-04T18:16:00.001-08:002016-01-06T08:19:54.023-08:00French Social Housing Experiments (1950s-1980s)The Fading "Grands Ensembles" of Paris
Laurent Kronental's Souvenir d'un Futur photos capture these stigmatized housing experiments and their aging residents.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Paris erected a series of massive apartment complexes to address a burgeoning housing crisis and accommodate an influx of foreign immigrants after WWII. Once seen as impressive manifestations of modern and postmodern ideology, these days the buildings are often stigmatized by the public and in the media, viewed largely as places of unemployment, delinquency, and exclusion.
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Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3052176/exposure/the-fading-grands-ensembles-of-paris
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-53531280409394303992015-11-03T02:41:00.002-08:002015-11-03T02:41:20.144-08:00"Gwapotel" transient worker housing solution in Metro Manila<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimc1l1XtDAC4_XImH-P_sHwhf-dG9sWS70oxBYysDok4anTt4RBHIk_yGjc9dQBKv-wcNaW5j71Kt8onN4BHqbHC55XmPM6RvYHWA9sCPF068_rA8UJNMmkxavKNyc509-reayJyd9nEo/s1600/WTMP_DinoBrinas_DSC_0021.jpeg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimc1l1XtDAC4_XImH-P_sHwhf-dG9sWS70oxBYysDok4anTt4RBHIk_yGjc9dQBKv-wcNaW5j71Kt8onN4BHqbHC55XmPM6RvYHWA9sCPF068_rA8UJNMmkxavKNyc509-reayJyd9nEo/s640/WTMP_DinoBrinas_DSC_0021.jpeg.jpeg" /></a></div>
Gwapotel is a portmanteau of gwapo, Filipino term which means good-looking, and hotel. The word is used by Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando to a worker's inn he founded in the old refurbished 4 story building which formerly houses the National Power Corporation located along Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila.
Presently, it has been renamed as the MMDA Worker's Inn, and is in operation.
First Gwapotel[edit]
On September 6, 2007, Chairman Fernando said that the “Gwapotel Inn” (Overnight stay: P20 a night, P5 a bath) run by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has become a big hit with transients due to safe and decent lodgings. 40,000 transients have registered in the 4-story “hotel” on Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila, since its May 14, 2007 opening. The 710-bed inn, painted in Mr. Fernando's signature pink and blue, posted an average occupancy rate of 73%, or 519 guests daily. The overnighters share a common sleeping area with double-deck beds.[1]
Now under the current chairmanship of MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino, they renovated and upgraded the Gwapotel in 2015, adding more amenities, improvements, and CCTV cameras.
Second Gwapotel[edit]
On December 23, 2007, Chairman Bayani Fernando announced the building of a 2nd Gwapotel: a 3-story lodging house at Tondo, Manila, in the abandoned 2,800-sq.m. Emmanuel Hospital at Jose Abad Santos St. Renovation started in January 2008, and is expected to be completed by May 1, 2008 (coinciding with Labor Day). [2]
Unfortunately, this branch was closed down due to low occupancy, and its facilities were donated to various institutions. The area is now the agency's training barracks.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GwapotelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-77943164757916835232014-11-09T11:36:00.006-08:002014-11-09T11:44:44.807-08:00Typhoon Haiyan: 1 Year On: 205,000 Families still without Homes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon to make landfall in recorded history, left a trail of destruction and some 6,300 deaths across central Philippines. President Benigno</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;"> Aquino has come under fire for having very little to show since Haiyan devastated communities in 171 cities and towns. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">By his government's own estimate, 205,128 families are still living in bunkhouses, tents and shanties in "unsafe areas". </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">However, only 1,252 houses have been built for them. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">In Tacloban city, a provincial capital that Haiyan nearly wiped off the map, around 400 families have refused to leave a "no-build zone" that stretches 40m from the coasts wrapping the city. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">Also, only 50 families have so far been relocated to permanent shelters out of more than 14,500 still hunkered down in evacuation centres in the city. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-align: justify;">Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez said he is hoping construction of a new "township" for these families can be finished by 2017, but he conceded that problems over expropriating private land and scarcity of manpower and construction materials could delay the project by 10 years.</span></div>
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In a briefing paper, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Rehabilitation and Recovery defended the pace of reconstruction in the Philippines, saying it has, in fact, been faster than in Banda Aceh in Indonesia, after it was hit by a tsunami in 2004.<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">It said it took two years before Banda Aceh could transition from relief to reconstruction. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Most of the rebuilding so far is being done by international aid groups and private foundations, including the Singapore Red Cross, which has raised $12.26 million to fund 87 programmes for some 1.5 million people. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Today, Tacloban will mark a year since Haiyan struck with a "candlelight memorial".</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Thousands are expected to light 24,000 candles along a 24km stretch from the city airport to a memorial park where more than 2,000 of those who died in the city last year were buried.</span></div>
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The powerful Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has declared today a "national day of prayer", instructing all Catholic churches in the archipelago to simultaneously ring their bells at 6pm. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">A "climate change envoy", meanwhile, will end his one- month, 1,000km march from Manila in Tacloban. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Mr Naderev Sano, the Philippine representative to the United Nations' climate change negotiations, and 12 others have been travelling an average of 25km a day since leaving Manila. He made world headlines last year when he fasted during the annual summit in Poland to protest against the lack of meaningful progress on global warming.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-30097284081174686352014-09-16T20:54:00.001-07:002014-09-16T21:18:49.046-07:00Akitek Tenggara's legacy676 experimental two-storey houses, each with a small garden of 13 square metres, were completed in 1976 by Akitek Tenggara's preeminent Tay Kheng Soon and Chung Meng Ker. It was the result of a critical morphological study into alternatives to high-rise and walk-up apartments at densities of up to plot ratio of 2:1. What Cheras showed is that a plot ratio of 0.68:1 is possible at a cost significantly lower than for medium and high-rise solutions. High-density low-rise can even be attractive given its ground-hugging typology. To date, after nearly 20 years and with minimum maintenance, the project still looks reasonably well-maintained. With its tree-lined roads and paths, and little sign of vandalism, it has matured. It also shows that 144 ground-based dwellings, each with a private garden, can be accommodated for each hectare of land.
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http://www.akitektenggara.com/projects/cheras/cheras.htmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-76936098205473359502014-04-15T02:04:00.001-07:002014-04-15T02:09:43.774-07:00Paper Housing - Shigeru BanMaster Architect ! Emergency Shelters and Housing <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/shigeru_ban_emergency_shelters_made_from_paper">TED TALK</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-82724679721988336692013-01-25T08:45:00.000-08:002013-03-15T00:35:06.781-07:00Open Modular System of Sustainable Houses (SAVMS) / Cso Arquitectura SAMVS open modular houses make a great solution for <a _mce_href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/social-housing/" href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/social-housing/">low income housing programs</a>
given their fast construction time, simple materials, modularity and
overall efficiency. Comprised of modules that serve specific functions
and are fabricated in a local factory, the home can be built in just
one and half months for 700 Euros per square meter.<br />
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Industrial in design, the home nevertheless boasts sensible materials
that ensure sufficient thermal massing and ventilation. The interior
is light and fresh and <a _mce_href="http://inhabitat.com/green-roof/" href="http://inhabitat.com/green-roof/">the green roof</a>
helps with insulation and enhanced air quality. Rainwater is harvested
and recycled and the entire home is powered by both solar thermal
plates and <a _mce_href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/photovoltaic-panels/" href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/photovoltaic-panels/">photovoltaic panels</a>.
It’s hard to go wrong with the SAMVS units: they save materials,
energy, time and money, and they’re not so hard on the eye either.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-48451186172466084092012-12-15T22:24:00.000-08:002013-03-15T00:34:42.131-07:00Public Housing Design 101<strong>Crime prevention through environmental design</strong> (<strong>CPTED</strong>) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring <a _mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">criminal</a> behavior through <a _mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_design" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_design" title="Environmental design">environmental design</a>.
CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions
that precede criminal acts. As of 2012, most implementations of CPTED
occur solely within the <a _mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_environment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_environment" title="Built environment">built environment</a>.
By changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing
acts in our communities is the main goal of CPTED. Urban design and the
planning that goes in to the creation of new and reformation of older
communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can
feel safer at all hours.<br />
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_designUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-9945905054756055952012-11-23T11:56:00.000-08:002013-03-15T00:34:17.901-07:00The rise of social housing movement in Taiwan: dec 06Unlike the developmental model in Singapore, public housing in
Taiwan has been neglected overtime by the government in periods of
rapid economic growth. Most public housing units were built for and
sold to the public servants and the people in the military sector
instead of socially and economically disadvantageous people. Nowadays,
public rental housing for disadvantaged people only occupies 0.09% of
the total housing stock. Therefore it could hardly play the role as
social safety net when the Taiwan society experiences economic
fluctuations. At the same time, the skyrocketing price of housing has
made purchasing a housing unit an unreachable dream for young people.
In addition, discrimination in the housing market also leads to the
difficulties in housing searches for disadvantaged people such as
elderly singletons, the disabled, and poor people.<br />
<br />
To address this situation, two years ago a movement urging the
government to provide public rental housing emerged. It could be
viewed as a reincarnation of the housing movement in Taiwan from late
1980s to early 1990s. However, this time the appeal of the movement
has changed from government intervention in leveraging housing prices
in the private market to more public housing or social housing for
rental based on people’s housing rights. This talk introduces the
history of the two periods of housing movements in Taiwan, and gives an
overview of the achievements as well as unachieved agenda of the
recent movement for social housing in Taiwan.<br />
<br />
For more information contact: <a href="mailto:fasrda@nus.edu.sg"><span class="gI"><span class="go">fasrda@nus.edu.sg</span></span></a><br />
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<strong>Venue: </strong>FASS, NUS, at the AS7 Shaw Foundation Building, level 6, in room 06-42, the Research Division Seminar Room.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-10323845183205947132012-10-10T10:21:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:33:51.701-07:00Charter Cities by Paul Rommer<strong _mce_style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.6em;" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.6em;">Q: Would the government in the city subsidize the housing for the workers?</strong><span _mce_style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.6em;" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><br />
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<strong>A:</strong> The
government can’t give residents in a city a higher standard of living
by charging higher rent for the land and then giving renters their money
back as a housing subsidy. People who work can afford to pay rent.</div>
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<strong>Q: If charter city residents live in small apartments with few amenities, would life there be any better than life in a slum?</strong><br /><strong>A:</strong> In
a charter city, all residents would have access to utilities like safe
municipal water at costs below those that they would pay in a slum. They
would not be subject to arbitrary relocation by predatory officials or
gang leaders. They would live in a place with no tolerance for violence
and crime, a place where people have to follow formal rules, rules that
prevent harmful activities like dumping garbage in the street or
building unsafe structures.</div>
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<strong>Q: Would housing in a charter city be constructed according to building codes?</strong><br /><strong>A:</strong> Possibly.
The people who rent apartments can’t verify after the fact that the
building where they will live was constructed to be safe. Building codes
are one way to solve the informational asymmetry. Efficient building
codes can ensure safety without restricting the supply of small, low
cost apartments.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-20185835718264108442012-09-05T15:13:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:33:21.542-07:00Growing housing opportunities in Africa: Encouraging investment / Growing the Market<strong>A joint conference offered by the African Union for Housing Finance </strong><br />
<br />
<strong>and the Bank of Tanzania’s Housing Finance Programme</strong><br />
<br />
<strong> </strong><strong>8 – 10 October 2012</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>Bank of Tanzania Conference Centre, 10 Mirambo Street, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</strong><br />
Africa’s rapidly developing economies and cities offer tremendous
opportunities, and challenges, for housing development and investment.
Urbanisation rates in Africa are the highest in the world, and positive
growth over the last decade has put many countries in a position to
assertively address the housing situations of their populations. While
the mortgage sector remains small, developments in many countries
suggests that this is changing. Housing practitioners across the
continent are beginning to grapple with and understand the opportunities
available and are developing precisely targeted products and
projects. Their work begins to chart pathways for new entrants into
the sector, and this will contribute towards the growth of the housing
sector across the continent. Governments, too, are recognising the
integral role of housing in overall economic growth, and are addressing
the regulatory and policy constraints to housing investment, opening
up further opportunities for growth.<br />
To showcase and promote these opportunities, the African Union for
Housing Finance and the Housing Finance Programme of the Bank of
Tanzania have joined forces to offer a conference with the theme <strong>“Growing Housing Opportunities in Africa: Encouraging Investment and Growing the Market”. </strong><br />
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It is fortuitous to offer the conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
where the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development
and the Bank of Tanzania are working together in a partnership with the
World Bank, and with the private sector, to grow housing opportunities
in a focused way. Tanzania’s experiences in growing its mortgage
market and promoting the delivery of affordable housing, while also
actively addressing the market where mortgages cannot go, will be
showcased. The experiences in Tanzania will be of particular interest
to other countries exploring the potential of a mortgage liquidity
facility, or who have already ventured on this path and wish to consider
alternative approaches to the concept. The first day will focus on
ways to encourage investor interest, through the development of
sustainable investment models, the collection of data and the
development of lender track records.<br />
<br />
The focus of the second day is on growing the market through the
development of niche market interventions and products that meet the
breadth of the housing need. The day starts with a showcase of
successful developments in progress – delegates will be invited to
choose four, of up to ten projects, which will be presented
simultaneously in a “housing developments marketplace”. This is
followed by a session exploring different ways in which the needs of the
low-income population can be served – from the provision of
micro-mortgages through to sustainable housing microfinance. The
different examples offer housing practitioners useful insight into
opportunities for their own growth and development.<br />
<br />
This conference will enable delegates to define their own role in
growing housing opportunities in Africa. Whether delegates are
government officials, investors, developers, lenders or members of civil
society, the conference will offer each participant useful insights
and evidence for promoting housing in their own local contexts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-39938127665676740702012-07-23T19:07:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:32:51.065-07:00Hong Kong plans to ramp up new flats to 50,000 a year
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HONG
KONG - Space-starved Hong Kongers could see a steep ramp-up in the
number of new flats built - to the tune of 50,000 a year, if a key aide
to new leader Leung Chun Ying has his way.</div>
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If
realised, it will be the highest number seen in Hong Kong over the past
two decades, and will certainly bring to a screeching halt the spike in
property prices, which have soared 80 per cent in the last three years
alone.</div>
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It
marks a huge jump from the 18,000 flats that were built in the last
fiscal year ending March, and outstrips the 35,000 goal set by the
previous Donald Tsang government for the coming years.</div>
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In
an interview with The Straits Times, Mr Barry Cheung, who chaired Mr
Leung's election campaign and is now a member of his executive council,
said: 'I think we have to provide significantly more flats than what we
did in the last five years.</div>
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'We need to get it up to at least 50,000 a year.'</div>
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Mr
Leung has made housing a key platform of his government and has pledged
to release more land. But he has not said how many homes they will
provide for.</div>
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Mr
Cheung's view - he is also the chairman of Hong Kong's Urban Renewal
Authority - provides a hint of the parameters that the new
administration is considering.</div>
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But flooding the market with 50,000 units a year invokes fears of plummeting property prices.</div>
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In
1997, Hong Kong's first chief executive Tung Chee Hwa promised to build
85,000 flats annually - reportedly Mr Leung's idea. But the policy
collapsed when market sentiment went south and Hong Kong was hit by the
Asian financial crisis.</div>
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Mr
Cheung says that what is needed this time is for the government to step
in with more public housing to buffer private home owners from the
impact.</div>
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Private
homes comprise over half - 52 per cent - of the market in Hong Kong.
About 30 per cent live in public rental flats, while the remaining 18
per cent live in flats the government sells at discounted prices.</div>
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Of his proposed pipeline of new homes, less than half - about 20,000 - would be private homes. The rest would be public housing.</div>
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At
the bottom, more rental flats would be built - some 176,000 applicants
are now on the waiting list. The government will build 15,000 such flats
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The
second tier is the subsidised homes under the Home Ownership Scheme
(HOS) for low-income families earning below HK$30,000 (S$5,000) a month.
There is a planning target of 5,000 a year.</div>
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Mr
Cheung says that a third tier needs to be created, for what he calls
'the typical middle class' - those who earn too much to qualify for HOS
but cannot afford private homes. This way, needs can be met 'without
necessarily bringing down the private market'.</div>
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It
will take three or four years to realise this plan of building more
flats, but genuine buyers will be able to enter the market before then,
he adds.</div>
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'If
investors see that down the road, there will be increased supply, they
will be less inclined to speculate and that takes demand out of the
market today. So more end-users would be able to go in,' he notes.</div>
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Such
a proposal would benefit the many Hong Kongers - about 100,000 live in
homes such as garrets and bed-space flats - on the hunt for affordable
homes.</div>
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But
it raises the ire of developers like Mr Steward Leung, chairman of the
Real Estate Developers Association executive committee, who calls it
'irresponsible'.</div>
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'If
all 30,000 are for public rental housing, we developers of course
welcome that. But if they are for HOS flats, then the market will be
shaken, definitely.'</div>
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Dr
Edward Yiu of the Hong Kong University worries about a possible
unintended impact of having the public sector expanding its role - a
'polarised housing market'. He says: 'Developers would want to maximise
their profits with the less land given, and so will turn them all into
luxury flats.'</div>
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source: <a href="http://www.stproperty.sg/articles-property/foreign-property-news/hk-plans-to-ramp-up-new-flats-to-50000-a-year/a/73057">http://www.stproperty.sg/articles-property/foreign-property-news/hk-plans-to-ramp-up-new-flats-to-50000-a-year/a/73057</a></div>
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<span _mce_style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;" class="style13" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Skim Rumah Pertamaku (SRP)</span> - My First Home Scheme was first announced in the <b>2011 Budget</b> by
the Malaysian Government to assist young adults who have just joined
the workforce, earning RM3,000 per month or less to own their first
home.</div>
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The Scheme allows young adults to obtain 100% financing from financial institutions, enabling them to own their 1<sup>st</sup> home without the need to pay a <b>10% downpayment</b>. This is in line with the Government’s aspirations of increasing home ownership amongst the “rakyat”.</div>
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In the <b>2012 Budget</b>, it was announced that the maximum property value be increased from RM220,000 to RM400,000, effective from <b>1 January 2012</b>.</div>
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Affordable
housing has shot up the Gulf’s policy agenda in the slipstream of the
Arab Spring. Over the past year, governments across the region have
woken up to the fact that putting roofs over people’s heads is central
to the viability of the social compact between state and subject......</div>
...... <a href="http://www.thegulfonline.com/Articles.aspx?ArtID=4342">http://www.thegulfonline.com/Articles.aspx?ArtID=4342</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-82906519355366100242012-04-14T17:55:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:30:28.050-07:00California's Community Redevelopment AgencyCalifornia’s community redevelopment agencies were created in the
1940s to encourage urban renewal. The agencies could acquire property,
including through condemnation, finance infrastructure improvements and
sell the land to private owners at below-market prices. Their
dissolution has thrown into question the fate of hundreds of projects,
including housing developments intended for low- and moderate-income
people.<br />
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In California, it is relatively rare for developers to be offered tax
abatements, density bonuses and other incentives for building in places
that are considered risky. Instead, the redevelopment agencies could
use the additional property taxes that were generated by enhancing the
value of the land, and this so-called tax increment financing became the
primary redevelopment tool. This year the incremental tax would have
amounted to $5 billion, or 12 percent of all of the property tax
collected throughout the state.<br />
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............ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/realestate/commercial/an-uncertain-fate-for-urban-projects-in-california.html?adxnnl=1&ref=realestate&adxnnlx=1334397364-XOV1j+dMvMrkEwBM9V51Yg">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/realestate/commercial/an-uncertain-fate-for-urban-projects-in-california.html?adxnnl=1&ref=realestate&adxnnlx=1334397364-XOV1j+dMvMrkEwBM9V51Yg</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-87082139598377636682012-04-10T15:58:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:29:57.884-07:0050 Storey Public Housing in Singapore<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nVIDfdcrmxE" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173338096566993867.post-29697005608248096182012-04-09T12:29:00.000-07:002013-03-15T00:29:30.016-07:00South Africa Slogan: Houses for Everyone<a _mce_href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xa-4c6e9144188c0e0a" class="addthis_button_compact at300m" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xa-4c6e9144188c0e0a"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_compact"> </span></a>Housing
is at the forefront of the national agenda for delivery and the
government is taking overall responsibility for providing houses to all.
The government inherited a critical housing shortage, with the 1996
Census reflecting a housing backlog of 2 202 519. Since coming to power
in 1994, the state has built 1,4 million housing units, providing more
than 5 million people with secure homes. For indicators on the progress
of housing delivery since 1994,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;">Home ownership</span></b></span><br />
The government’s goal is to create sustainable housing developments
whereby people own their properties. This engenders a sense of pride in
their homes, streets and areas and advances the entire community. At
least 2 million people have benefited from the transfer of ownership of
398 000 houses to their residents since the government came to power.
In the past 8 years, the percentage of home-owners has risen from 66
to 77 percent of all household dwellers, despite the fact that the
number of households has also increased by 1,5-million since then.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;">Housing subsidies</span></b></span><br />
The National Housing Subsidy Programme aims to stimulate both rural and
urban development. Since 1994, 1 323 205 housing subsidies were
allocated, 36 percent of these to women-headed households. National
housing policy specifies that all housing subsidies offered be met with a
contribution from the recipient – either in the form of funds or
labour - to encourage a culture of responsibility and saving for
housing. The Housing Subsidy Scheme gives six different funding options
for those who are eligible and who earn R3 500 or less per month.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;">Finance for the poor</span></b></span><br />
For housing developments to be sustainable, contributions are required
from all sectors of society – government, communities, NGOs, the
private sector and individuals. Access to finance remains the biggest
obstacle to housing delivery. Since 1994 the government has attempted
to work out solutions with banks on issues like red-lining, bad debts
and subsidy-linked bonds. Servcon was established as a public-private
partnership to tackle the problem of bond defaulting and has so far
cleared 15 000 bad loans worth R612-million. The National Housing
Finance Corporation was also set up (in 1996) to give banks access to
capital for subsidy-linked and lower income housing. So far the NHFC
has given out R1,5-billion to finance institutions for housing.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;">Job creation and skills development</span></b></span><br />
The government’s low cost housing programme creates jobs by promoting
labour-intensive methods, employing local labour and small-time
contractors. It also supports those who prefer to build their own homes
and provides technical, financial and other support to them.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: x-small;">Human settlement</span></b></span><br />
Around 53,6 percent of the population live in urban areas. The Human
Settlement Redevelopment Programme, initiated in 1999, aims to improve
the quality of the urban environment and address the imbalances and
backlogs inherited from the apartheid government. This involves yearly
roll-on housing development plans spanning all three tiers of
government. So far the government has spent more than R40-million in 15
areas in all 9 provinces in human settlement programmes.<br />
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Read more: <a _mce_href="http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/govthousing.htm#ixzz1rVxKTFZM" _mce_style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/govthousing.htm#ixzz1rVxKTFZM" style="color: #003399;">http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/govthousing.htm#ixzz1rVxKTFZM</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com