Government Initiatives for Affordable Housing

The main issue with housing difficulties is mainly income. In this society, money has more value than it did in the past, but it is still not enough to live the glorious “American Dream” we are all pining for. Even jobs that require backbreaking work, such as a janitor or a maid, do not provide enough to pay the numerous amount of bills that quickly accumulate. This issue can assuredly force someone and their family onto the street. With such a large population in the United States, it is possible that there won’t be enough space in the country to benefit the many lives that are contributing to its creation. This country is full of hardworking people who are struggling to make ends meet due to either financial issues, discrimination issues or simply not enough room to keep them in a proper living

According to The Economic Times, affordable housing is defined as housing units that are occupied by a person whose income is below the median of household income. The purpose of researching this topic is to inform readers of the positive outcomes which stem from affordable housing in communities and also to give examples of the life changing impacts affordable housing has on families. Through analysis and observation, a person may become more aware of what is going on in their neighborhood. A community should consider affordable housing for positive outcomes such as education, good health increases, and economic growth.

The Lack of Affordable Housing in California Lowers the Quality of Life for its Residents

We live in era that produces massive construction production line that urgently need innovation take us to what many called third industrial revolution, move us far to new age of customizable in terms of construction

That direct quote is from a staff report of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008” which took place July 7th 2009.

It’s nice to appreciate Mayor De Blasio’s intentions in building affordable houses for the people who need them. I think it’s a great chance in improving New York as a whole. New York rent is ridiculously expensive. De Blasio’s goal in building 80,000 new units of affordable housings in the next decade is a far reach project but I believe he can get at least half of that done. East New York specifically is sort of a great place to start. I’m not very familiar with East New York, but, my cousin’s boyfriend actually sold his apartment to private buyers who are buying out each apartments in East New York. Private buyers is what leads “affordable housing” to become no so affordable. Projects like these are what turns neighborhood into other neighborhoods

Choosing between pre-fabricated housing and traditional housing is critical choice to make for prospective homebuyers. According to Weidemann (1990), tradition housing refers to the use of unprocessed raw construction materials to be utilized for on-site construction activities, and must be constructed under the supervision of a contractor. Traditional housing refers to Throughout history, “pre-fab” homes are thought of by the public as temporary homes, unworthy of investment. (National House Building Council Foundation, 2015).

Have you ever built a house or saw one be built? I ask this because in today's society construction is needed everyday from roads, houses,commercial building and helping people rebuild their homes from disasters. Today’s society is full of new and creative ways to help around the community. Construction is something that most people in the community are not very fond of, due to the fact that it can inconvenience our lives. Although, sometimes it is taken for granted just because it is actually so crucial in our lives.

Housing is crucial factor because it provides with self-identity, expression (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010) and it is the place where we spend most of our life (Bentley, Mason, Submanian &Kavanagh, 2011). The living cost in past 20 years has been increased in the cities. The renters spend about 30% of the total income for rent (Williams et al., 2012). But, it is higher in cities like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. One third of Canadians are renters of low income level and their rent increasing faster than their income of household. This cause many families and individuals without unsafe housing. There are increasing numbers of families who live in motels, shelters or on the streets (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010) which can be really stressful and can cause poor mental health (Bentley et al., 2011). In addition, housing insecurity is linked to mental health because it creates stress and inability to cope with it (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010). It can be due to neighbourhood where your live that relates to chronic stressor because of living instability and lack of money (McMullin & Davies, 2010). There are many factors that can lead to mental health problems related to housing. But without decent amount of income people cannot purchase healthy food and have safe housing. The next section will focus on income and mental

Decades ago, sustainable construction was not even a common term for construction processes and uses of construction materials are chosen on how it makes an impact on cost savings

Domestic building work here in Victoria, Australia, encompasses a number of different components, including framing for homes and other pertinent class 10 structures. It includes fabricating wall frames along with erecting and bracing them in the proper manner for both non-load and load bearing wall frames. In addition, the replacement and erection of roof trusses.

Whether it is a new build or a renovation of an older home, a bathroom remodel we give our customers a walkthrough and updates of the process from start to finish. Our first step for new builds is to ensure that we prepare the site before we start on any foundation construction, ensure the frames are in par with the architect’s work, installation of the windows and doors proceeded by roofing drywall, electrical, plumbing, carpet and flooring and since the work is done in house we are there every step of the way because we do not pass any work to outside sub-contractors.

Affordable housing initiatives are becoming press issue and social concern in ACT region and Australia wide. The ACT government has invested in social housing scheme program for years to solve social issues for housing in ACT. But, the situation of people need help remain the same while the ACT is doing nothing to tackle the problem. In Canberra, private rental with low and moderate income earners is difficulties for families to meet their living cost. The rapid increase of house prices for both new apartments and private house has eroded the capability for homeownership. As a result, the competition between affordable housing, private rental housing and social housing have experienced higher demand tension.

The Freedom Home was originally established in 1998 under the name of “New Millennial Homes” in Florida by three business partners: Michael Shrenk as current CEO, George Aucott and Keith Collins. As the company continue to grow, so the market demand increased. The builders focus shifted to a more diverse, cultural and demographic population who were faced with difficult disabilities and challenges to continue living in their communities independently. The Freedom Homes introduced a concept of building “universal design homes” to a new diversity of aging population and residents with disabilities that the homes were custom design according to their physical and financial needs such as. Today, the company has 21 staff employees and revenues of 1,900. 000/year, rated as of top 20% of

Offsite construction is a method of building that can be traced back to being used thousands of years ago as far back as Roman times. It is perhaps most commonly associated with the post war when there was a demand for housing and rebuilding in the form of prefabricated building were seen as the solution (Brennan, 2013). The end of the war in the United Kingdom seen the construction industry hit with major skill shortages and building materials, both of which had been preoccupied by there commitments to the war. (A L Rogan, 2015) It resulted in a critical shortage of housing this shortage inspired a search for new techniques of construction that would help provided a solution. Iimmediately after the war there was a large amount of steel production from industries that were targeted towards the war output and now required to rethink how the operate (Taylor, 2015).