The City of Philadelphia Basic Systems Repair Program (BSRP) provides low-income homeowners with grants to repair structural damage to their homes.31 More than half of the housing units in Philadelphia were built before 1945, and aging houses are more likely to experience structural problems.31 ...
Although this delay is not very attractive, many capital investors rely on the low-income housing tax credits as a way to increase their rate of return on the projects and help to overcome the perceived risk of investing in affordable housing. There are many other benefits to affordable housing...
Based on this premise, Section 2 provides the background literature on the effect of densification design strategies on the indoor environment of low-income housing; Section 3 introduces the methodological framework, including a description of the study area and the three different designs (the existi...
City Hall Low Block Central, Hong Kong The refurbishment of the exhibition hall with an open-ceiling design was to increase its flexibility to accommodate a wide range of functions – including seminars, art exhibitions, receptions etc., according to the user – putting special consideration on ma...
Low-income communities often at highest risk How quickly power returns in a community is often shaped by history. Discriminatory practices such as redlining and zoning, which prevented nonwhite residents from obtaining mortgages or owning homes in certain areas, left marginalized groups living in more...
Diarrhoea poses serious health problems among under-five children (U5C) in Low-and Medium-Income Countries (LMIC) with a higher prevalence in rural areas. A gap exists in knowledge on factors driving rural-non-rural inequalities in diarrhoea development among U5C in LMIC. This study investigates...
by the level of parental income, less hygienic environment, large family size, and short birth intervals. Whereas, the urban children are at higher odds of a balanced meal, improved housing schemes, healthcare services, portable water and higher availability of employment an higher pay thereof2,...
Situated in the popular Orange County about 30 minutes outside of Los Angeles, Fullerton has a lot to offer families. For one, it's less than five miles from Disneyland. Thecost of livingis high, about 37% above the national average, but themedian household incomeis also higher than aver...
Southwest prices regularly go down to$39-$59 between California city pairsfrom nearly any one to any other one. You can fly into and out of the below California airports on Southwest: Burbank Long Beach Los Angeles Oakland Ontario Orange County ...
I spent quite a while figuring out how to run a passenger rail line out of Ithaca to the south to Owego so that it wouldn’t be on a branch line but on a through line, but it requires purchasing and demolishing some housing, and a lot of people’s back yards, to restore the ...