Query: Housing rental system

title: An examination of rental housing contracts in Ghana: Legal versus economic perspectives
abstract: Severe housing problem experienced by most cities in the developing world is a concerned to governments and policy makers all over the world. This is the case because housing is a basic necessity of life. Renting is the most common type of tenancy in most urban areas in Ghana. Due to the demand pressures existing in the market, most residents in the cities have difficulty entering and surviving in the rental market. This study examines the rental housing markets in Accra and Tema cities of Ghana. The study uses both the quantitative and qualitative methods to (i) examine empirically, the factors that determine the rental values; (ii) investigate the economic implications of the rent advance payment system from the perspective of both the tenant and the landlord; and (iii) assess the extent to which both landlords and tenants are protected by the legal system in Ghana. Interviews with 325 property owners and 344 tenants reveal that there is high cost of renting due to the shortage in the market. Both the tenants and landlords are aware of the severe shortage and the landlords take advantage of this by charging rent advance of mostly two years so that they can use the money for investment. Even though this contravenes the Rent Act of 1963, the tenants are afraid to take the landlords to the court for the fear of being thrown out or refused the accommodation. The study also reveals that some of the tenants actually convince the landlords to accept the bulk payment because they are afraid the landlords can increase the rent when the short term tenancy expires. The few cases sent to the courts did not see the landlords being punished severely and in most of them, the parties were asked to do an out of court settlement. That is information asymmetry largely exists in the rental market. A simple multiple regression shows that location is the most influential factor in determining rental values in Accra and Tema cities of Ghana. Policy recommendations have been proposed to help solve the problems in the current rental market system in Ghana.

title: Development of Performance Evaluation Index System about China's Public Rental Housing Project
abstract: Public rental housing in China coming so late, and since its emerge, it has been the favorite of government, common people, News and Media. As a representative public project, its project approval has been taken seriously. However, considering about the performance evaluation, it lags far away. This thesis is based on performance evaluation. Survey the current conditions of public rent building construction in China, and pointing out the fact that the development of public rental housing is followed by hidden troubles due to the lack of performance evaluation. Then analyze its necessity of the performance appraisal. Finally try to design the performance evaluation system of public rental housing project, hoping to make contribution to public rental housing.

title: Family Compound Housing System Losing Its Value in Ghana: A Threat to Future Housing of the Poor
abstract: The family compound housing system in Ghana ensures both nuclear and extended family live in the same house and have reciprocal relationships. It is a social safety net that prevents homelessness in Ghana. The rent free compound housing remains predominant in rural areas and indigenous parts of the cities. However, many Ghanaians prefer to live in single family houses rather than the family compounds, resulting in a gradual reduction in the number of family compound houses. Based on a study conducted in four communities, the article uses a qualitative approach, with social capital theory as the analytical basis for the research, to investigate why most Ghanaians now wish to live outside their family homes. Based on the findings, the article questions the future of housing the poor in Ghana if the family compound housing system collapses and suggests a rental form of compound housing as a new policy for the state.

title: Internet of things based public rental housing management system
abstract: The invention provides an Internet of things based public rental housing management system. The system comprises a software system and a hardware system, wherein the software system comprises a storage module and a processing module which are connected with each other; and the hardware system comprises a gateway server and a gate system which are connected with each other. The system performs unified intelligent management by adopting a management system instead of manual work, performs intelligent processing on housing data and renter data, saves man power, improves management quality and efficiency, and effectively prevents a renter from illegal housing use. Based on an Internet of things technology, the system monitors and manages housing by adopting a biometric information authentication and recognition technology, is convenient to use, has high reliability, and further improves the safety of the housing through the arranged of a camera and an alarm.

title: An evaluation system for suitability of urban public rental housing construction in Chongqing
abstract: A social problem that low income people are unable to purchase houses in urban areas has been focused in recent years and the housing security system has also become an important part of the social security system. In recent years, public rental houses appeared as a new type of affordable houses. The national government took the construction of public rental houses to the national strategic level. Currently, there are many problems in the public rental house construction. For example, policy mechanisms are inadequate, the use of funding is not in an efficient way, the location of public rental houses is far away from the downtown, the plot ratio is too high, and facilities are incomplete. There are no appropriate indicators to comprehensively evaluate the public rental house construction. Based on the livable evaluation system in Chongqing, we selected four aspects of relevant indicators as the economic suitability, environmental suitability, social suitability, and life suitability to establish the public rental house construction suitability evaluation system.

title: The Policy Recommendations of Public Rental Housing System Taking Changzhou as Example
abstract: This article discusses the system of public rental housing production and development process,and studies the existing public rental housing system of Changzhou,and detailed analysis of their funding sources,housing sources,eligibility criteria,standards of rent and exit management.Combined with its current problems,proposed a unified operating mechanism,Financing REITs and dynamic management.

title: The Netherlands's experience of rental housing system development
abstract: A well working rental houses system is a basic experience of solving the housing problem successfully in the Netherlands. This article firstly analyzes the development process of the Dutch rental houses market. Then it summaries the Dutch rental houses system, including the types of rented housing, major characteristics, key suppliers, main sources of financing and levels of rents. And then it evaluates the role of government and its policy implementation in developing rental houses system. Finally, it discusses the policy implications of Dutch experience to the development of rental houses system in China.

title: Analysis on the Policy and Legal System of Public Rental Housing in China Based on the market oriented perspective of public rental housing
abstract: Developing public rental housing is an important policy choice to solve the housing security problem of China,but there are many difficulties in the implementation process of the government led public rental housing system,such as funding sources,land supply,construction and operation,rental standards and enforcement oversight.Learning from the successful experiences of other countries,and considering the situation of China,steadily promoting the market oriented reforms of public rental housing should be the new trend of the improvement of public rental housing system,and a complete rental housing subsidy system is the key to the healthy operation of the system.In order to form the housing security pattern of government and social interaction,we also need specialized companies,new land supply system,supporting policies and other related systems.

title: The Impact of the Dual System of Residential Land Supply on the Development of Public Rental Housing
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the dual system of residential land supply in the urban land market,i.e.,the conveyance system and the free administrative allocation system,on the development of public rental housing.The methods used are deduction and normative analysis.The results show that under the dual system of residential land supply,the local governments do not have the internal incentive of continuously supplying land for the public rental houses,and meanwhile the normal pattern of real estate business can hardly support the development of public rental housing.Therefore,the adjustment of land institution and the redesign of the related policy are needed so as to reduce the costs of public rental housing with completely legal ownership.It further attracts the social investment, forming the common interests model of local governments,companies and households.The conclusion is that the current development pattern with local governments' dominating role can be complemented by the market forces through the reform of related land institution,which is crucial for the sustainable development of the public rental housing in China.

title: A GIS BASED ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING CONDITIONS AND RENTAL VALUE IN GOVERNMENT BUILT HOUSING ESTATES IN MINNA
abstract: Housing management decisions require consideration of location and space. There is a constant need for more technology and training in the industry and Geographic Information System (GIS) is not known to have been used in tackling the problems of housing conditions and related problems in Minna. This study examines the relationship between housing conditions and rental value of selected housing estates in Minna with the aid of GIS. Census sample technique was adopted where all the houses in the housing estates were sampled. Satellite images of M.I. Wushishi Housing Estate, Bosso Estate and Oduoye Housing Estate were geo referenced and maps were produced for various analysis. Conventional geo database was created for conditions of houses in the housing estates and from it geo statistical analyses was carried out which produce kriging and spatial autocorrelation analysis. In addition, correlation analysis was used to analyse the impact of building conditions on rental value. It was found out among others that building conditions has weak relationship with rental values in the housing estates. It was therefore recommended amidst others that Geo statistical tools should be an instrument for measuring and monitoring of residential property development.