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Livability, equity and well-being as values: what role does housing play?

In July 2022, the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research held its annual conference online. Included in this post are the text and video of the short presentation as well as an expanded version. Presentation (PDF – 5 pages plus slides) Video (15 minutes) Expanded version (PDF – 12 pages) Your feedback on these presentations would…

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Functional collaboration post

“A cycle of functional specialties: a framework for collaborative creativity” Functional collaboration is a new way of understanding and doing science. It is a cyclic process that is aligned with how we make progress. As such, by facilitating collaboration between specialists, it improves the prospects of making progress in any area of human endeavour. Functional…

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Researching housing in a global context – Journal article

This post allows you to comment on the journal article, “Researching housing in a global context: new directions in some critical issues” in Housing, Theory and Society (2016) Click here to see more about this article Other posts onFunctional Collaboration in Housing Research

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Eight enduring challenges of housing research

This post allows you to comment on the journal article, “The Eight Enduring Challenges in Housing Studies – on Explanations, an Integrated Comprehensive Heuristic and Implementation: Some Comments on Mark Stephen’s article” in Housing, Theory and Society Click here to see more about this article Other posts onFunctional Collaboration in Housing Research

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Making Progress in Housing: A Framework for Collaborative Research post

This post allows you to comment on “Making Progress in Housing: A Framework for Collaborative Research”, a book which presents a new approach to housing research, one that is relevant to all the social sciences.  a new way of understanding and doing science as a complete set of eight inter-related questions. a methodological framework that…

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Towards an integrated comprehensive heuristic for housing research

One of key challenges of housing research is to develop a comprehensive heuristic that can be used as a framework for understanding any housing system. (A heuristic is guide for undertaking research. It identifies the basic variables and their relations that constitute housing.) To date most housing heuristics have had a limited focus, either on…