The Housing Topic Paper:
The Housing Topic Paper mainly sets out the objectivity to assess our island’s housing requirements for a durational period of twenty years. The Housing Structure Plan outlines the responsibilities of the planning systems in Malta, to ensure housing quality with minimal impact to the Maltese natural environment. According to MEPA’s Final Draft (2002), housing serves as one of Malta’s significant land uses, since it is a basic human need and also, the government needs to ensure that decent housing is provided to every citizen. Therefore, the researcher evaluated the Housing Topic Paper and correlated significant points with the locality of Mtarfa (MEPA, 2002).
Mtarfa’s urban area amounts to 41, with a population density of 2200, with a 590 number of dwelling units (MEPA, 2002). Most of Imtarfa’s dwellings are concentrated along the main road however, they outward away from the main roads to a semi –urban or a rural area. Most of the rural dwellings or farmhouses that are situated between Mtarfa and Rabat have their own warehouses and fields.
The contemporary “Habitat’ style developed in different residences in Mtarfa, are accessible from flying decks and superimposed, terraced units present cubic forms reminiscent of Maltese vernacular architecture (Mangion Mangion & Partners, 2008).
Mtarfa is hosting the highest percentage of households composed of five persons or more with 13.6%. Mtarfa also includes a large number of social housing projects, which are a block of apartments that was recently built near ‘Dar Il-Kaptan’ and other apartments that were previously used as dwellings under when Malta was still a colony under the British Emperor. Pembroke and Mtarfa also have the largest number of four-person ...
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... suggest that, in Mtarfa there is minimal area for crime to take place due to the fact, that it is small village with low business occupancy. When correlating the housing structure of Mtarfa with different criminological theories there again, one finds that Mtarfa has minimal prospects in suffering from delinquent actions.
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Johnson, A. (2013). Give Me Shelter an assessment of New Zealand's housing assistance policies (1st ed.). Wellington: Salvation Army.
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...ncil only built 29 homes last year. Lots of houses tied up in NAMA that could be used. In my own constituency of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown there are currently - properties that could be used. What is required is a large scale social housing development last seen since 1932. A large quantity of social housing that was previously owned by Dublin corporation and Dublin City council were privatized Public housing private financing joint ventures may need to be pushed if the government cannot be coerced into building large scale social housing projects. Municipal housing associations . Mention gentrification maybe tie the 'no rent supplement' issue into this. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council favours this because more affluent tenants means more money for the council's budget, a larger volume of social housing would mean a larger amount of not paying property tax.
The number of people per sq. km of land area in Italy in 2011 was 206.44. Over a fifty year span, Italy reached a maximum value of 206.44 in 2011, and a minimum of 171.83 in 1961. There are about 200 people living in every square kilometer of land area. However, due to th...
3.Spence, Lorna. A Profile of Londoners by Housing Tenure: Analysis of Annual Population Survey& Labour Force Survey Data. London: Greater London Authority, 2007. Print.
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Compare and contrast the ways in which housing inequalities are discussed from the perspectives of social policy and criminology, and economics (TMA 02)
Joseph Alcock reiterates that a “lack of affordable housing can be a barrier to a strong reliable economy” (9). High housing costs can influence where businesses and corporations decide to locate, which will affect the local economy. First-time homebuyers will most likely shy away from moving to Orange County because of these high prices on homes. In addition, many people leave after graduating from local college and universities because families probably not want to continue paying a lot for their own homes. These youthful passage level specialists drive neighborhood economies. On the off chance that they can't stand to live in the area, nearby economies will endure. An absence of affordable housing can push zone specialists to settle outside of the territory, bringing about longer drives, expanded movement blockage and contamination, diminished efficiency, and a reduced personal satisfaction for the area. An absence of reasonable rental housing confines the capacity of tenants to put something aside for an initial installment on a home, which restricts their capacity to in the end get to be property holders and assemble individual riches through housing appreciation. An absence of affordable housing improves the probability of vagrancy. An absence of reasonable housing has brought about congestion and critical increments in family unit and group stress. An absence of affordable housing causes families to live in substandard dangerous
The graphs show the results that were expected from the land use questionnaires. In the tables, the trend in the graphs show the total’s and average’s over 147 years.
When valuing the property, the figures should not be the only issue but also the demographic factors and the services offered. When valuing the property, everything within the property should be assessed. The items inside a house should be valued by the size, the cost and the age of existence, this includes the furniture’s and any other utensils that may be available. For items like the computer, the cost and the make are of importance. The car should also be valued if it forms part of the property and the model and the year of make are of essence. The surrounding of the property should also be put into consideration; the geographical location of the property should be put into consideration (Tucker Sundeep, 2006).
Fahey, T. (1999) Social Housing in Ireland: A Study of Success, Failure and Lessons Learned. Dublin: Colour Books Ltd.
Many economists argue that market solutions are more efficient than government agencies in providing services even when it comes to “merit goods”. In the discussion of housing problem, I would disagree with the economist’s view. Housing is a very complicate issue that I believe it will work the best by the cooperation of market and government agencies. The Canadian government has worked for many years on the housing issue, but does not seem to have any adequate solutions to solve the problem. The housing market, unlike other industry, has a dominant feature of inelastic short-run supply. This characteristic of the housing market has made a great obstacle in coping with the problem. In fact, we may look at other countries’ experiences and learn how to deal with the problem effectively. Canadian government’s housing policy is based on the idea that everyone is entitled to decent and affordable housing. Housing is a necessity and everyone needs a place to live. It is for this reason that government set its goal to ensure everyone is living in housing of adequate quality at a price they can afford. However, the government has turned into wrong definition of decency and affordability. Firstly, decency is subjective according to different cultures. I think that the Canadian government is setting a very high value on living environment, and such a high standard may cause more difficulties in solving the problem. Secondly, Canadian government has continuously reduced its standard in defining affordability. It was consider affordable if housing cost no more than 20% of your income.