Theories on Housing, Comprehensive Approach to Housing

Question 1

Cooperatives

Directly from members

Answer 1

• one-time or annual membership fees
• member contributions with no individual ownership attached, such as service fees.
• member share capital
• individual member deposits with the cooperative which may be used for business
• deferred payment to members for part or all of their produce delivered to the cooperati

Question 2

Cooperatives

This source of funds from retained surpluses is often called “institutional capital” and represents the collectively-owned wealth of the cooperative.

Answer 2

From cooperative business surpluses

Question 3

Cooperatives

External Funding

Answer 3

• as a grant
• as a short-term loan
• as a long-term loan
• as trade credit offered by a supplier.

Question 4

Comprehensive Approach to Housing

Comprehensive Approach to Housing

Answer 4

1. financing
2. homelessness
3. construction and rehabilitation
4. low income and affordable housing
5. planning and comprehensive approaches to housing department
6. distressed areas
7. community and economic development
8. community participation and capacity building
9. partnerships
10. regulation

Question 5

Housing Theories

Answer 5

• Marxist Housing Theory
• The Positivists Housing Theory
• Functionalist Housing Theory
• Housing Mobility Theory
• Theory of Housing Satisfaction
• The Theory of Impression Formation
• Behavioral Housing Theory
• The Theory of the Hedonistic Ergometer
• The Theory of Housing Adjustment
• The Housing Price Theory
• The Theory of the Aspiration Spiral

Question 6

Financing

Financing

Answer 6

• Cooperatives
• Cost Recovery
• Credit
• Lease
• National Financing
• Subsides

Question 7

Homelessness

Answer 7

• Direct Assistance
• Income Generation
• Prevention

Question 8

Construction and Rehabilitation

Answer 8

• Low Cost Building Techniques
• Construction: Technology & Methods
• Self-Construction and Mutual Help
• Rehabilitation
• Natural Disasters: Rehabilitation and Construction

Question 9

Planning and Comprehensive Approaches to Housing Department

Answer 9

• Environmentally Sensitive Planning
• Infrastructure, Sanitation and Safety

Question 10

Low Income and Affordable Housing

Answer 10

• Informational and Counseling Services
• Mixed Income Housing

Question 11

Distressed Area

Answer 11

• Free Land Plots
• Slum, Shantytown and Squatter Settlement Redevelopment

Question 12

Community Participation and Capacity Building

Answer 12

• Community Participation
• Capacity Building

Question 13

Housing Theories

Answer 13

• Marxist Housing Theory
• The Positivists Housing Theory
• Functionalist Housing Theory
• Housing Mobility Theory
• Theory of Housing Satisfaction
• The Theory of Impression Formation
• Behavioral Housing Theory
• The Theory of the Hedonistic Ergometer
• The Theory of Housing Adjustment
• The Housing Price Theory
• The Theory of the Aspiration Spiral

Question 14

A benefit given to an individual, business, or institution, usually by the government

Answer 14

Subsidy

Question 15

Homelessness solutions

Answer 15

• Immediate and basic needs of homeless people
• Obtain the skills and opportunities they need to make the
• transition to independence
• Prevent homelessness from becoming epidemic.

Question 16

Assistance to Homelessness

Answer 16

• Direct assistance
• Income generation
• Prevention

Question 17

Construction and Rehabilitation

exchange of free labor = free materials

Answer 17

Self Construction and Mutual Help

Question 18

Improvement and modernization of old building

Answer 18

Rehabilitation

Question 19

Prevention and response

Answer 19

Natural Disasters: Rehabilitation and Construction

Question 20

Job creation and economic development

Answer 20

Mixed Income Housing

Question 21

Use of local resources

Answer 21

Environmentally sensitive planning

Question 22

Housing Theories

Three dimenions of Amrxist View of Housing

Answer 22

• Housing is necessary good
• Housing is a fixed good
• In a capitalist social formation,
  housing not only has a use but
  also an exchange value

Question 23

Housing Theories

Three dimensions of positivist housing theory

Answer 23

• The economic status on which
  the physical improvement of
  dwelling unit depends, and with
  which the dwelling unit
  increases its economic value
• The health situation within the
  dwelling units that can be
  measured.
• The contribution of the
  government in ensuring dwelling
  units where the authorities
  should ensure the availability of
  adequate housing for each
  individual

Question 24

most widely used in urban geography, especially in determining the hierarchy of functioning cities

Answer 24

Functionalist Housing Theory

Question 25

residential value of a flat does not depends only on the sizes of the flat and the facilities of the premises, but also on the services and facilities that enable social communication and sufficient provision of transport, education, information and recreational opportunities, as well as the possibility of the flat being supplied with goods and services

Answer 25

Housing Mobility Theory

Question 26

Originators of theory of housing satisfaction

Answer 26

G.C. Galster and G.W. Hesser

Question 27

The ____ research in the future will be equally attractive in all disciplines, from Psychology to geography, because a large number of professions touch upon the dimensions of housing that affect the overall quality of life of an individual or a family.

Answer 27

Housing Satisfaction

Question 28

Their satisfaction or classification with housing depends on the current situation as does the need for permanent changes

Answer 28

Theory of Housing Satisfaction

Question 29

The Theory of Impression Formation was introduced by _ in 1964

Answer 29

S. Asch

Question 30

If an individual was looking for a new dwelling units and had some information about it, even though he or she did not personally see it, this information would affect his or her first impression when seeing the new dwelling unit

Answer 30

The Theory of Impression Formation

Question 31

Who supplemented Asch's contention?

Answer 31

L.A. Brown and D.B. Long-Brake