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  title info:
    title: Policy Innovations for Affordable Housing In Singapore
    sub title: From Colony to Global City
  name:
    name part: Phang, Sock-Yong.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 215 p. online resource.
  abstract: "This book tells how public authorities in Singapore designed and adapted policies for allocating land, capital, and labor in order to create good places for Singapore citizens and residents to live and work, setting the infrastructure for people in Singapore to create a poster-child East Asia economic miracle of the late 20th century.....The book is among other things a fascinating analytical economic history about how Singapore purposefully deployed a suite of interrelated public policies about land use, life cycle savings, taxation, regulation, and ethnic toleration." - THOMAS J. SARGENT, Nobel Laureate in Economics "Rich in facts, data, and scholarly analyses, this book tells a fascinating story of Singapore's affordable housing policy. It eloquently demonstrates that the objective of affordable housing is achievable. Global cities around the world struggling from declining housing affordability could learn a lot from Singapore's success." - ZHI LIU, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, USA "Which country gets the housing market right? This is a question that experts very often get at conferences, gatherings, and during interviews. And usually "Singapore" comes up as one of the answers. Sock-Yong Phang does an excellent job in sharing her knowledge on Singapore's housing market, and on what has and has not worked." - HITES AHIR, International Monetary Fund Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality. Singapore's success in making homeownership possible for 90% of its population has attracted much attention internationally. This book represents a culmination of research by the author on key housing policy innovations for affordable housing. Housing policy changes were effected in the 1960s through reforms of colonial legislation and institutions dealing with state land acquisition, public housing, and provident fund savings. The comprehensive housing framework that was established enabled …
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Land acquisition for 'Any Public Purpose' -- Chapter 3: Public housing for Sale -- Chapter 4: Housing Finance through Provident Fund Savings -- Chapter 5: Facilitating Higher Housing Densities Through Land Use Planning -- Chapter 6: Market Responsive Housing Regulations -- Chapter 7: Building Diverse Neighbourhoods Through Integration Policies -- Chapter 8: Redistribution and Housing Wealth Formation -- Chapter 9: Home Equity Extraction for Retirement Financing -- Chapter 10: Transferability of Singapore's Housing Policy Innovations.
  note: by Sock-Yong Phang.
  subject:
    topic: Urban economics
  subject:
    topic: Public finance
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Industrial organization
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Urban Economics
  subject:
    topic: Public Economics
  subject:
    topic: Asian Economics
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Organization
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: R & D/Technology Policy
  classification: HT321
  classification: 330.91732
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics
  identifier: 9783319753492
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75349-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 180423
    record change date: 20191220125552.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-75349-2