New Housing: Case Study

The Lime Tree Estate – Factors which have lead to the decline of this estate

The most successful, long term, low-income housing projects are those that use sustainable design and address the social, cultural, and economic needs of residents. Traditionally built low-income housing projects are associated with high crime rates and high mortality rates among the residents who live in them. They do not provide for the needs of residents, resulting in many of the problems these low-income housing projects face today. These problems range from endangerment of human life, psychological afflictions due to the high stresses that are endured by residents, disease epidemics caused by overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions (in combination with a substandard public

Within each service area there is a host of many options available. Specifically, under the Public and Indian Housing is the Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly referred to as Section 8 Housing. Section 8 is the federal government's major program for access to very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford suitable, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Housing choice vouchers are administered by the local public housing agencies (PHAs). The

The Los Angeles County Board has allocated $25 million dollars to spend on new programs that promote social justice. I have developed a proposal to allocate the money to create affordable housing complexes in communities within the city. The communities selected for housing developments are Boyle Heights, Watts, Chinatown, Pico-Union and Elysian Park. The proposal includes spending all $25 million in five developments of affordable housing. Each housing development will have twenty five 2-bedroom apartments. A total of one hundred low income families will benefit in total. My proposal includes asking each family to pay a monthly rent of 1/4 of their monthly earnings. The monthly rent collected from tenants can be used to maintain the developments,

The housing crisis of the late 2000s rocked the economy and changed the landscape of the real estate business for years to come. Decades of people purchasing houses unfordable houses and properties with lenient loans policies led to a collective housing bubble. When the banking system faltered and the economy wilted, interest rates were raised, mortgages increased, and people lost their jobs amidst the chaos. This all culminated in tens of thousands of American losing their houses to foreclosures and short sales, as they could no longer afford the mortgage payments on their homes. The United States entered a recession and homeownership no longer appeared to be a feasible goal as many questioned whether the country could continue to support a middle-class. Former home owners became renters and in some cases homeless as the American Dream was delayed with no foreseeable return. While the future of the economy looked bleak, conditions gradually improved. American citizens regained their jobs, the United States government bailed out the banking industry, and regulations were put in place to deter such events as the mortgage crash from ever taking place again. The path to homeowner ship has been forever altered, as loans in general are now more difficult to acquire and can be accompanied by a substantial down payment.

Councillor Joe Cressy is a great supporter of the park and believes the city needs to commit to building the new parkland even though the budget might be tight due to other necessities like transit.

The readings for this week fall under the umbrella of “Issues in Housing Policy”, more specifically race, discrimination and segregation. Looking at this topic with the naked eye may lead one to conclude that these issues are age-old, but by looking at the occurrences within the housing policy we can very much conclude that these drawbacks still remain and are salient to the present. To begin, the Schwartz piece highlights that housing policies are mandated to condemn the discriminatory practices that plague real estate and mortgage markets, where African-Americans and other minorities are at a “decided disadvantage”. However, the federal laws passed, such as the Fair Housing Act of 1968, prohibiting racial discrimination by real estate

New Hope Housing likely had strengths related to their employee development program, their effectiveness in housing people in need, and their niche for ensuring individuals who would typically be rejected housing. Some of their weaknesses likely related to their secured funding and current dependence on government funding. Some of their opportunities relate to finding solutions for permanent housing, as this is currently a struggle for the people they serve. Lastly, their threats likely also have to do with their government funding. As budgets change, money is moved around and can impact this organization for the better or for the worse.

I have to disagree with your statement that during the 1950s the demand for new housing during the 1950s had a greater impact on the economy created more of a multiplier effect than the changes made to the social security system. I believe that they were both equally impactful. According to the historical records kept by the Social Security Administration themselves, it was during the 1950s that "benefit amounts were increased substantially." This component of additional income is something that should not be overlooked since it acts like one of the "series of induced increases in consumption spending" since now there is more disposable income for those who could not work due to their disability. The Social Security Act of 1935 is the autonomous

The Compass Housing Alliance has long history of assisting people in need, dating back to the 1920s. The Compass Housing Alliance was originally the Lutheran Sailors and Loggers Mission in Pioneer Square, which was founded by Rev. Otto and Mrs. Alva Karlstrom. Their mission was to follow the Good Samaritan, by helping those in need. The Lutheran Mission included services such as a chapel, reading room, Americanization school, a kitchen, bedding (mattresses on the floor), and a postal desk. In 1926, the Lutheran Mission was renamed Lutheran Compass Mission. Because of the Depression, the homeless population grew rapidly in the 1930s. As a result, the Karlstroms went to a fund-raising tour, which covered 10,000 miles and fifteen states in the

It is the dream of many parents in poor families working dead end jobs, that their children will have the many opportunities that they were not given. Which is why they try their hardest to save up enough money to relocate their families to the suburbs. Regardless, there are some people that believe that if they let such families into their neighborhoods, then they will bring with them all the bad events that that happen in poor neighborhood. As a person that has transitioned from a wealthy to poor then middle class I can give my insight on this matter. I will do so by explaining if a neighborhood shapes who you are, if I would be different if I grew up someplace else. and if suburbs should allow affordable housing.

A policy is a set of programs proposed and espoused at a personal or group level. Group-developed policies are proposed at a higher level involving governmental or non-governmental policy makers. A housing policy is a contractual insurance denoting that housing is a right of an individual independent of income level, social class, political or religious position (Shidlo, 1990). Policies are excellent preferences as compared to law restrictions, since the latter can coerce or prohibit certain procedures that are necessitated in conducting a process. Protocols show-cased in policies, especially in housing policies rationalize

In the city of San Jose, California, the housing supply has shriveled due to overwhelming influx of new residents and prolonged construction of housing developments. With the lacking supply of homes and more affluent residents moving to San Jose, landlords and developers of for-sale properties have been inclined to raise the costs of housing. These times have caused families and individuals into circumstances such as to relocate to more affordable areas outside of San Jose, such as Tracy and Hollister, creating inconveniences with a longer commute or even worse, homelessness. The City of San Jose had identified the housing crisis and responded with an ordinance known as the inclusionary housing policy which requires property developers, particularly

High Density is said to be the future of residential housing, although not everyone agrees to this way of thinking.

“The best that can be said of the conception is that it did afford a chance to experiment with some physical and social planning theories which did not pan out. “ This quote reflects Jane Jacob’s philosophical ideas in an attempt to criticize the social housing’s design approach and its associated urban planning in modern era. “The physical and social theories” outlines the urban planning idea of social housing (Utopian idea) and according to Jane’s statement, such experiment of these theories were deem to be unsuccessful. It is inevitably certain to some extent that a provocative statement towards modern era social housing approaches would hold true due to the minimal success the plans brought to the city, such as solving the working class commendations temporarily. Nevertheless, it is a failure to deliver long-standing social improvements corresponded with the increasing suspicion of modernism, one cannot simply attribute ill fate to its “innovative physical features” (As Jane said, the Utopian and Utopia), but should rather considered a range of other elements in the larger aspect of society: factors such as difficulty of racial integration, problems of financing and management, lack of bridging between architecture and planning, as well as the increasing preference of suburban lifestyle from the rising mid class. These problems reflected evidently in some stereotypes of social housing communities built in the modern era such as Pruitt-Igoe, sunny side Gardens, Paul