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Improving Housing by Conventional Versus Self-help Methods: Evidence From Israel

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  • Naomi Carmon

    (Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel)

  • Tamar Gavrieli

    (Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel)

Abstract

The study compares the two major processes of improving housing conditions for moderate- and low-income households in Israel: the institutional solution - relocating eligible households in new public housing; and the spontaneous self-help solution - households who purchase their housing units from a housing management company, improve and enlarge them on their own initiative and with their own resources, with or without the assistance of a publicly subsidised loan. It was found that the self-help improvements produced better housing conditions, better relationships with neighbours and more satisfaction with housing. They increased the individual motivation to work, and also had a positive aggregate impact in preventing neighbourhood decay and encouraging urban renewal. These results were achieved at a low cost to the public treasury as compared to the institutional solution.

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  • Naomi Carmon & Tamar Gavrieli, 1987. "Improving Housing by Conventional Versus Self-help Methods: Evidence From Israel," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 24(4), pages 324-332, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:24:y:1987:i:4:p:324-332
    DOI: 10.1080/00420988720080491
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    1. Leland S. Burns & Donald C. Shoup, 1981. "Effects of Resident Control and Ownership in Self-Help Housing," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(1), pages 106-114.
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