Housing in Taiwan

Housing in Taiwan
Author: William D.H. Li
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429851413

Published in 1998, in this book the author points out the inadequacies caused by the division between housing research on production and consumption, and the theoretical divide between structural and agent-centred approaches on housing. By developing an understanding of social relations within the structured process of housing provision, the author argues that action and the specific form of housing provision can be better understood. By using pre-sale housing in Taiwan as a positive example, the author shows how housing production and consumption are closely related and structured through agents' purposive interaction, and how agents are benefited through their relations.

The Future of Public Housing

The Future of Public Housing
Author: Jie Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642416225

Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By including perspectives of scholars from across the world, this book provides new insights into public housing in its various forms. It contains in-depth chapters on public housing in five East Asian countries and six Western countries, together with three comparative overview chapters.

Housing East Asia

Housing East Asia
Author: J. Doling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137314524

Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision. This book explores not only the development of their distinctive approach, but also the challenges posed in recent years, and currently, by rapid socio-economic and demographic change.

Women and Housing

Women and Housing
Author: Patricia Kennett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136739637

This collection explores the housing circumstances of women in developed and emerging societies in Europe, USA and East Asia, at a time of substantial economic and social change. Its focus is on the interface between housing and gender and how this socially constructed relationship manifests and transforms over time and space.

Housing and the New Welfare State

Housing and the New Welfare State
Author: Richard Groves
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317121031

The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book. Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing; the causes and consequences of the shift from tenants to home owners in the old welfare states of Britain and other parts of Western Europe; and the growth of the property-owning welfare state as a theme running through contemporary policy in both East Asia and Europe.

Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia

Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia
Author: Rebecca Lai Har Chiu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315460033

This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development. Using case study examples from countries/cities including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors contextualize housing policy development in terms of both global and local socio-economic and political changes. They then investigate how policy changes have shaped and re-shaped the housing wellbeing of the local people and the social development within these places, which they argue should constitute the core purpose of housing policy. This book will open up a new dimension for understanding housing and social development in Asia and a new conceptual perspective with which to examine housing which, by nature, is culture-sensitive and people-oriented. It will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in the areas of housing studies, urban and social development and the public and social policy of Asia.

Housing and Social Change

Housing and Social Change
Author: Ray Forrest
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415273312

The aim of this book is to provide a benchmark statement of key issues on housing and to emphasise the need to embed our understanding of housing issues in an international and multidisciplinary setting.

Global Housing Markets

Global Housing Markets
Author: Ashok Bardhan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470647140

A global look at the reasons behind the recent economic collapse, and the responses to it The speculative bubble in the housing market began to burst in the United States in 2007, and has been followed by ruptures in virtually every asset market in almost every country in the world. Each country proposed a range of policy initiatives to deal with its crisis. Policies that focused upon stabilizing the housing market formed the cornerstone of many of these proposals. This internationally focused book evaluates the genesis of the housing market bubble, the global viral contagion of the crisis, and the policy initiatives undertaken in some of the major economies of the world to counteract its disastrous affects. Unlike other books on the global crisis, this guide deals with the housing sector in addition to the financial sector of individual economies. Countries in many parts of the world were players in either the financial bubble or the housing bubble, or both, but the degree of impact, outcome, and responses varied widely. This is an appropriate time to pull together the lessons from these various experiences. Reveals the housing crisis in the United States as the core of the meltdown Describes the evolution of housing markets and policies in the run-up to the crisis, their impacts, and the responses in European and Asian countries Compares experiences and linkages across countries and points to policy implications and research lessons drawn from these experiences Filled with the insights of well-known contributors with strong contacts in practice and academia, this timely guide discusses the history and evolution of the recent crisis as local to each contributor's part of the world, and examines its distinctive and common features with that of the U.S., the trajectory of its evolution, and the similarities and differences in policy response.

Dynamics of Housing in East Asia

Dynamics of Housing in East Asia
Author: Bertrand Renaud
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119090717

This book is the first to evaluate the organisation, behaviour and performance of six major East Asian real estate markets. It offers a unique analysis of the growth and transformation of the real estate sector across East Asia. The authors examine the interactions between volatility in the sector and the overall stability of the economy, in particular during the Asia financial crisis of 1997-98, and the global financial crisis of 2008-09. draws on the best available theoretical and empirical literature applies analytic tools in the context of East Asian institutions and policies helps understand factors affecting resilience and stability in East Asian real estate markets.