Do residents of Affordable Housing Communities in China suffer from relative accessibility deprivation? A case study of Nanjing

Zeng, Wen; Rees, Phil; Xiang, Lili

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.01.038

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“…Affordable housing facilities could be termed as social housing, public housing or cooperative housing based on the country and income level of the target household (Zeng et al , 2019). For instance, social housing in the case of England are houses that are allocated based on income of households or housing needs of the households while affordable housing facilities are provided as facilities below market rent/price but above the rent or price level of social housing.…”

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Towards a sustainability assessment model for affordable housing projects: the perspective of professionals in Ghana

Adabre

Chan

2020

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PurposeThis paper presents a sustainability assessment model to holistically guide sustainable construction and green retrofitting of affordable housing from the Ghanaian perspective.Design/methodology/approachA comprehensive review was carried out, which yielded 16 sustainability indicators. Then, a questionnaire survey was conducted among respondents in the Ghanaian housing sector. Forty-seven valid responses were received and analysed using fuzzy synthetic evaluation (FSE) technique.FindingsA four-index model was developed that includes: Housing and Transportation (H + T) index, household-satisfaction index, efficient stakeholder-management index and quality-related index. These indices account for 25.3%, 26.3%, 23.6% and 24.9% of sustainability attainment in affordable housing, respectively. Accordingly, household-satisfaction has the greatest contribution to sustainability attainment in affordable housing.Research limitations/implicationsDue to challenges in obtaining responses to the questionnaire, the study was conducted with relatively small number of responses.Originality/valueThe model serves as a tool that could be used to objectively and comprehensively assess sustainability performance in affordable housing. Besides, it could be used as a baseline to calibrate future projects and for benchmarking success levels of comparable housing projects. Finally, the estimated indices are applicable in decision making for optimum resource allocation for sustainable low-cost housing in the Ghanaian perspective.

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Towards a sustainability assessment model for affordable housing projects: the perspective of professionals in Ghana

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Chan

2020

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“…However, these communities are typically located on the urban fringe. The poor location leads to low accessibility levels for low-income workers [9,31,[64][65][66][67][68]. This may exacerbate transport disadvantage because few public housing residents can afford a car to substitute for inadequate public transport services [68].…”

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“…Apart from jobs, accessibility to essential goods and services is also a problem for lower income people [27,38,66,67,84,[87][88][89][90]. These services include health services, education, shopping and physical activity facilities.…”

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Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

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The widening income gap in post-reform China has given rise to social inequality. Among those, transport poverty and inequality have significantly affected the daily life of low-income groups. While important, this is an under-researched topic in China. This gap in the academic literature is glaring given the country’s urbanization rates, sprawling cities and income differentials. Most previous studies have only focused on two aspects of transport poverty—job-housing imbalance and accessibility. A comprehensive understanding of the causes and impacts of transport inequality is currently lacking. Therefore, a systematic review of academic literature based on keywords relevant to transport poverty in China was conducted to provide a more complete assessment of the situation in Chinese cities. In total, 62 relevant studies were identified after close examination of the articles (including titles, abstracts, and full-texts). This set of articles allowed a number of general patterns to be identified. It was found that the most common causes of transport poverty include: a lack of access to private vehicles; uneven access to alternative transport options; inadequate public transport provision; jobs-housing imbalance; and the hukou system (a system of household registration which aims to regulate population distribution and rural-to-urban migration). The main impacts of transport poverty include: curtailed mobility and longer travel times; higher household expenditures on travel; reduced access to jobs and essential services; higher household expenditures on travel; and health and environmental issues.

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“…However, despite the large financial investment Sustainability 2021, 13, 672 2 of 22 and completion of an enormous quantity of affordable housing, the public housing satisfaction ranking in Shanghai has stagnated, remaining in the middle or lower levels for a long time. Currently, public housing has serious problems such as poor property management services, low housing quality, insufficient public services, unfair distribution of housing, and unreasonable compensation for demolition [7]. There is even a welfare paradox of public service deprivation and group resistance in some areas.…”

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Research on the Evaluation and Influence Mechanism of Public Housing Service Quality: A Case Study of Shanghai

Wei

Wang

2021

Sustainability

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Government provision of public housing services eases the disorderly spread of urban space, avoids the social risks caused by high density, and maintains a safe social life. The role of public housing services in realizing urban sustainable development has become increasingly prominent, yet the provision of adequate public housing of a decent quality in a desirable location is a major challenge. Therefore, this study proposes a holistic conceptual model of public housing service quality (PHSQ) and establishes corresponding evaluation indicators to objectively evaluate the current status of housing services. The results show that the overall PHSQ is low- to medium-quality; the city center has become a high-quality gathering area, and the suburbs are generally low-quality. The spatial pattern shows that a single high-quality center coexists with multiple low-quality centers, forming an approximate M-shaped distribution pattern. The geodetector results show that foundation supporting capacity, government control capacity, resource agglomeration capacity, market driving capacity, and social promotion capacity significantly affect the PHSQ. The influence produced by the interaction between different factors shows an enhanced relationship, especially between public discourse expression and other factors, implying the need to remove the overemphasis on “supply-side reform” and focus on the effectiveness of demand-side factors.

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Do residents of Affordable Housing Communities in China suffer from relative accessibility deprivation? A case study of Nanjing

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Cited by 42 publications

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Towards a sustainability assessment model for affordable housing projects: the perspective of professionals in Ghana

Towards a sustainability assessment model for affordable housing projects: the perspective of professionals in Ghana

Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

Research on the Evaluation and Influence Mechanism of Public Housing Service Quality: A Case Study of Shanghai

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