Residential land development in Jabotabek, Indonesia: triggering economic crisis?

Before the economic crisis hit Indonesia in 1997, land development had been one of the prime sectors for investment. Land development companies were mushrooming. They were basically working together in share holdership or were interconnected through family relationships. They were also related to the ex-First Family of Indonesia. This had given them the possibilities to influence any policy and regulation concerning land development and thus distorting the housing market in the area. The buyers of the houses produced by the developers were mostly young professionals who worked in the private sector, classified as middle and high-income segments. The excessive land development, done by a few developers only targeted a small minority of the riches had been part of the trigger of the monetary crisis and caused calamity of the country as a whole.     

论消防行政处罚案件强制执行

相对人拒不履行消防行政处罚决定所规定的义务,公安消防机构是否具有强制执行的权力,法律并未明确规定。因此,出现拒不履行的情况,都须申请法院来强制执行,行政效能大打折扣。笔者针对这一现状,提出了建立和完善消防行政处罚案件的强制执行制度的构想,并结合自己的工作实际,就建立和完善该制度的条件、程序、措施、救济办法等内容进行了阐述和分析,以资探讨。     

Families of Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Parent Perceptions of Family Resources and Stressors

This study addresses the dearth of research on families of children with serious emotional disturbances (SEDs) by examining parents’ perceptions of their families’ resources and stressors. Parent and/or guardian responses on the Family Inventory of Resources and Stressors (FIRST) whose children were receiving treatment for SEDs (n = 80) were compared to those with children without SEDs (n = 48). One-way ANCOVA analyses revealed that, when controlling for income and education level, families of children with SEDs reported significantly greater stress levels than families of children without SEDs, but both groups reported similar levels of resources. The principles derived from this study provide critical information for treatment providers and researchers seeking to develop an in-depth understanding of the resources and stressors of families of children with SEDs so as to more effectively collaborate with them in treatment planning.     

国内住宅福利与住房保障研究

住宅是国内学者研究的焦点领域,通过对国内学者关于住宅福利和住房保障研究内容的梳理,发现当前我国关于住宅福利与住房保障研究大体来讲分为三个方面:对住宅权和居住公平的研究;对住房保障和住房改革的研究以及对住房政策体系的建构与政府角色的研究。借鉴国外关于住房保障与政策经验,吸收国内学者对住宅领域研究的丰富成果,可以发现不同时期的研究偏重与政策内涵,同时也发现掌握全面的住宅资料、厘清住宅福利与住房保障等概念对于提升居民住宅福利、促进住宅产业良性发展的重要性。     

Youth engagement and service dosage in a mandated setting: A study of residential treatment centers

Treatment theory in residential treatment centers (RTCs) is conceived as a two-stage process of first engaging the client and then delivering services or interventions aimed at presenting problems. This treatment logic has been criticized for “creaming clients” or reserving services for clients easier to engage or more amenable to treatment but less in need. The present study examines whether higher early levels of engagement by youth in RTCs leads to more intervention and compares the relative effects of engagement and seriousness of presenting problems on the quantity of services provided by the mid-point in the adolescents' stay. Data come from interviews with a clinical sample of 71 male and 59 female adolescents in two RTCs in an eastern state. Findings indicate that higher level of engagement predicts more treatment interventions. Treatment staff delivered higher dosages of services to youth with more current behavioral problems, not those with problematic behaviors at intake. Youth with positive peer group backgrounds also received more services. Findings extend knowledge of how treatment staff provide treatment to clients and the role engagement plays in RTC service delivery.     

Resident councils between lifeworld and system: Is there room for communicative action?

In long-term care facilities, the participation of older people relates to individual care provision (individual level) and to policy decisions that affect all residents in a care organization (collective level). In the Netherlands, resident councils are set up in order to improve resident participation on a collective level. However, our research shows that managers and resident councils are faced with mutual frustration and ineffective interaction. This article investigates the extent to which Habermasian communicative action (herrschaftsfreie Kommunikation) between resident councils and managers in residential elderly care is actually possible by examining the interaction between resident councils and managers in two case studies. We conclude that resident councils find themselves between lifeworld and system. There is communicative action between resident councils and managers, but it is easily dominated by strategic action. Therefore, space for communicative action needs to be deliberately created in order to support resident council participation and influence.     

Effects of neighborhood walkability on healthy weight: assessing selection and causal influences

Studies that examine the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and weight are limited because residents are not randomly distributed into neighborhoods. If associations are found between neighborhood characteristics and weight in observational studies, one cannot confidently draw conclusions about causality. We use data from the Utah Population Database (UPDB) that contain body mass index (BMI) information from all drivers holding a Utah driver license to undertake a cross-sectional analysis that compares the neighborhood determinants of BMI for youth and young adults. This analysis assumes that youth have little choice in their residential location while young adults have more choice. Our analysis makes use of data on 53,476 males and 47,069 females living in Salt Lake County in 2000. We find evidence of residential selection among both males and females when BMI is the outcome. The evidence is weaker when the outcomes are overweight or obesity. We conclude that studies that ignore the role of residential selection may be overstating the causal influence of neighborhood features in altering residents’ BMI.     

浅析上海市近年来对外来流动人口的政策变迁

本文主要是对上海市近年来对外来流动人口政策变迁的综述和浅析。根据文化程度的高低 ,一般将流动人口分为两个不同的层次 ,也相应出台了不同的政策 ,从针对层次较高的所谓“引进人才”的蓝印户口、工作证制度、以及居住证到针对层次较低的外来普通务工人员的就业证制度和综合保险政策。最后得出的结论是 :根据上海经济、社会发展变化的相应需求 ,“筑高门槛 ,开大城门” ,成为上海市对外来流动人口管理政策的基本趋势 ,外地人进入上海的难度在增加。     

北京市外来劳动人口从业类型及居住地的省份聚集性分析

本文利用北京市1997年外来人口普查20％的抽样数据,对分省的北京市外来人口的从业类型及居住地进行统计分析。统计检验表明来自同一省份外来人口在京从业类型及居住具有一定聚集性,如浙江的自我雇用性的私营业,安徽的建筑“铁军”等;丰台区的“浙江村”,朝阳区的“河南村”等。同时利用社会网络理论,从外来工的迁移形式、就业信息源、在城市中的交往方式角度入手,探讨以省份为特征的从业类型及聚居现象形成的可能的内在原因。     

商品住宅投资与商用房投资互引关系:基于VAR模型的实证

商品住宅投资与商用房投资作为当前我国房地产开发投资中的两个重要板块,无论是在投资总量还是投资结构上都存在相互引致的关系,实证得出了二者互引关系的确存在,但互引的敏感性有差别、互引关系有一定的持续效应、互引投资量存在均衡关系等结论.将这一互引关系的机理运用于当前房地产调控和保障性住房建设等领域,提出相关政策建议.