Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing: A Political Solution in Search of a Planning Justification?

Planners in England routinely include shared ownership (SO) housing in the affordable housing element of new developments. Government policies in a number of European countries have also backed intermediate housing market mechanisms as a solution to housing affordability. The rhetoric of such mechanisms makes claims about its social progressiveness, its role in facilitating socio-economic mobility and helping people move from rented accommodation into full owner-occupation. SO schemes in England have been justified on the grounds of being transitional tenures and planners have accepted SO on this basis. However, given the paucity of rigorous empirical work, there is a concern that this is a policy based on assumption rather than evidence. This paper delineates existing knowledge, clarifies dimensions of the intermediate housing market and highlights underlying policy issues based on a large data-set of shared owners in England. Our analysis indicates that SO may not be appropriately classified as affordable housing, and justifiable policy requires further evidence.     

鼻内窥镜下等离子低温射频治疗老年人鼻出血的护理

目的总结等离子低温射频治疗老年人鼻出血的护理要点。方法总结80例用等离子低温射频治疗仪治疗老年人鼻出血病例资料,总结护理体会。结果配合整体护理,明显提高了治疗疗效,减轻了患者痛苦。结论等离子低温射频治疗老年人鼻出血疗效显著,患者痛苦小。整体护理是治疗成功的的重要环节。     

美国老年人长期照护法律体系及其对我国的启示

以1965年美国老年人法案(the Old Americans Act)及之后的一系列修正案和相关法律法规为主要素材,着重从政府角度介绍美国老年人长期照护法律体系的建立过程以及在此过程中政府职能的相应转变。本文介绍了老年人长期照护的含义,归纳了美国老年人长期照护法律体系建立的意义,指明了老年人长期照护法律关系中政府的特殊地位,并结合中国目前老年人长期照护的现状对我国老年人法律体系的完善提出了一些启示。     

The effects of rent restructuring on social housing in English rural areas

This paper discusses the impact of central government's rent restructuring policy on social housing in rural areas in England. It examines the effect that restructuring will have on the rents set by social landlords in a set of case study areas then considers some of the likely impacts on affordability and on new investment in rural social housing. One of the primary aims of rent restructuring policy is to reduce unjustifiable differences between the rents of similar dwellings in the local authority and Registered Social Landlord sectors locally. This aim seems likely to be achieved. In doing so, it is likely that affordability will be reduced in the local authority sector but enhanced for tenants of some RSLs. However, the reduction in real RSL rents that improve affordability may further constrain RSLs’ ability to invest in new social housing in rural areas. The paper concludes that rent restructuring by itself will not materially improve the housing prospects of the less well off in rural areas.     

Half of the Disabled in China are Elderly

正According to Jiankang News,there are about 44.16 million disabled persons aged over 60 years in China,accounting for53.24%of the total disabled.There is stil a long way to go for the prevention and rehabilitation work of old-age disability.Experts recommended that rehabilitation services for old-age disability should be     

广东省住房保障适度水平分析

住房保障在民生问题中越来越突出,也成为人们越来越关注的一个问题。文章借鉴穆怀中教授的社会保障适度适度水平的测算模型,构造一个住房保障适度水平测算模型。并借鉴发达国家住房保障经验数据对各模型系数进行估计,结合具体情况得出广东省住房保障适度水平区间为0.83%~2.21%。而广东省住房保障水平仅为0.2%,远未达到适度水平下限,政府对住房保障的投入力度远远不够。随着经济水平的不断发展,广东省需要不断加大对中低收入群体的住房保障力度,提高住房保障水平。     

小组工作在社区长者服务中的运用——以南国颐景老年公寓为例

小组工作是社会工作的一种专业方法,它不仅是社会工作者经常运用的工作方法之一,同时还是一个重要的中介,贯通和连接着宏观社会工作和微观社会工作。运用小组工作的专业手法为社区长者开展小组工作是我们教学实践的一种新的尝试,通过小组活动和互动交流的方式,使长者放松心情,享受欢乐,体现了社区专业工学结合植根于社区的教学理念,也为小组工作服务社区长者提供了经验。     

Privatising social housing in Taiwan

This article first reviews how the concept of privatisation has been referred to in the current restructuring of the social housing system, especially in the case of the UK. The term 'privatisation' is then examined in greater detail and its wider meaning is discussed. By using the network approach, privatisation in relation to housing can be understood in terms of the changing combinations of agents involved in providing social housing, which gives rise to the commodified impact on the distribution of social housing. By using the privatisation process of social housing in Taiwan as an example, three distinct combinations in terms of providing social housing are identified. With an increasing number of social housing units being provided by the marketised social housing model where private agents control the process of providing social housing, along with more market rules being involved in the provision and the partial removal of means tests in relation to the distribution of social housing, the privatisation of social housing development in Taiwan is having a major impact on equity.     

物业股权实现途径之理性思考

在我国现有的法律框架下,实现业主无偿获取物业公司股权,并由业主作为惟一股东组织和运作物业公司,以达到物业自治的目的,尚存在诸多法律上的难题.无论由开发商投资设立公司,还是业主利用共有公用的物业财产自设物业公司,均存在一定的障碍.因此,物业股权的设想并不具有现实意义.     

我国未来老年贫困的风险分析

未来老年人指在1975年以前出生的人群。伴随社会经济发展,未来老年人的收入来源多元化,经济和心理自立能力不断增强。但是,未来老年人中相当一部分人目前处于贫困或贫困的边缘,这种状况一方面会通过非正式支持对上下两代贫困风险产生影响,另一方面会影响到他们的老年期,表现出老年期资源累积不足的倾向。因此,延续性贫困可能是未来老年贫困的一大原因。