Housing

The Housing Act of 1949 was implemented by Harry S. Truman to help clear the slums and provided more appropriate housing for low-income families. The act provided “1 billon dollars in loans to help cities acquire slums and blighted land for public or private redevelopment. It also allotted $100 million every year for five years for write down grants to cover two-thirds of the difference between the cost of slum land and its reuse value” (Hoffman, 2000). The act also provided federal grants and…

Housing in the United States has its fair share of problems. Some of which are the effect of the recession that struck a few years back. It drove the cost for housing up and with that made many people lose their homes and lose some of their financial credibility. The recession caused many house prices to be jacked up. Due to the raising of prices less people could afford homes, many people have faced problems of have at least been affected by this problem of raising house cost. When last…

Canada's First Nation (FN) on-reserve housing now is in crisis level due to severe shortages, lack of proper ventilation, presence of mold contamination, overcrowding and structural deficiencies (CBC, 2011; MacTavish et.al, 2012; Canadian Press, 2016). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) defined access of proper housing is the third most important basic human needs. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family,…

high, medium and low income, the development of different housing policies. On high earners by the supply of commercial housing market; for middle-income earners, supply of public housing, government public housing development and construction enterprises to sub loan guarantees and interest subsidies preferential support and regulation public housing construction standards and cost; of low income, low standard of low-cost rental housing, rent not sell, rent more than family income by more than…

Over the last 8 years since the housing market collapse our society has struggled to get back to what we once felt was a goal for many in life, being a homeowner, and although for some this may still be a reality the harsh truth is that for a big segment of the population it is not. Today’s demand for homes in the US is at the all time high, but the supply on the other hand has not been able to match the demand and for good reasons. In 2008 we suffered what was one of the worst economic melts…

Transitional housing seeks to provide a better gateway for people to regain their economic stability. Usually for a period of two years, these programs involve subsidized housing in specific transitional housing developments and a mix of other supportive services and case management. However, programs of this type frequently have an excessive number of qualifications which prevent many of the most at-risk demographics from receiving the help they need (16). The Housing First model evolved in…

Turner, Margery A. Housing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012: Executive Summary. , 2013. Internet resource. In “Housing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities”, the federal report examines the differential treatment of minorities in their conquest for housing, a basic necessity. The experiment contains the comparison of whites between one of the three minorities, which were Hispanic, Black and Asian. The participants were categorized by their gender, age and…

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“Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble” What role did the setting of monetary policy play in housing market developments? The central theme of this paper is to evaluate the role and relationship between monetary policy with a specific focus on the housing market developments. It is an estimation that monetary and/or economic conditions of a country will affect mortgage borrowing as well as prices of homes. The direct correlation between the monetary policy and the housing market is being…

our country is housing discrimination. The main reason why we still need to fight housing discrimination and it is such of an unfair problem is that the people being discriminated against can’t have the same opportunities as everyone else because they can’t live where they want to based on something they have no say in, like the color of their skin or which country they were born in. To put a permanent end to it, we need to ensure that all people are protected under law from housing…