Housing policy, wellbeing and social development in Asia / edited by Rebecca L.H. Chiu and Seong-Kyu Ha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chiu, Rebecca Lai-Har, editor.

Ha, Sŏng-gyu, 1947- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in international real estate

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Asia.

Housing policy.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xviii, 271 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development. Using case study examples from countries including China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors contextualize housing policy development in terms of both global and local socio-economic and political changes. They then investigate how policy changes have shaped and re-shaped the housing wellbeing of the local people and the social development within these places, which they argue should constitute the core purpose of housing policy. This book will open up a new dimension for understanding housing and social development in Asia and a new conceptual perspective with which to examine housing which, by nature, is culture-sensitive and people-oriented"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: conceptual contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu

Housing policy and urban development in China : the public housing perspective / Jie Chen

The security-based public housing policy of Hong Kong : a social development interpretation / Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Mandy H.M. Lau and Bokyong Seo

Housing in Japan's post-growth society / Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara

Housing policy challenges and social development in Korea / Seong-Kyu Ha

Changes in housing policy, housing wellbeing and housing justice in Taiwan / Chin-Oh Chang and Bor-Ming Hsieh

No one left homeless : universal provision of housing in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat and Meisen Wong

Housing policy in Malaysia : bridging the affordability gap for medium-income households / Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Ainoriza Mohd Aini and Mahazril 'Aini Yaacob

The unfinished agenda : national housing programmes and policy shifts in India / Urmi Sengupta

Housing affordability problems of the middle-income groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh : a policy environment analysis / Sadeque Md Zaber Chowdhury

Vietnam's post-reform housing policies : social rhetoric, market imperatives and informality / Hoai Anh Tran and Ngai Ming Yip

Housing segmentation and diverging outcomes in housing wellbeing in Bangkok, Thailand / Thammarat Marohabutr

Housing policy and social development in Indonesia / Connie Susilawati

Conclusion : Asian housing policies in the social development contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138208186

1138208183

OCLC:

1015262479