Improving Housing by Conventional Versus Self-help Methods: Evidence From Israel

Naomi Carmon and Tamar Gavrieli
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Naomi Carmon: Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
Tamar Gavrieli: Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel

Urban Studies, 1987, vol. 24, issue 4, 324-332

Abstract: The study compares the two major processes of improving housing conditions for moderate- and low-income households in Israel: the institutional solution - relocating eligible households in new public housing; and the spontaneous self-help solution - households who purchase their housing units from a housing management company, improve and enlarge them on their own initiative and with their own resources, with or without the assistance of a publicly subsidised loan. It was found that the self-help improvements produced better housing conditions, better relationships with neighbours and more satisfaction with housing. They increased the individual motivation to work, and also had a positive aggregate impact in preventing neighbourhood decay and encouraging urban renewal. These results were achieved at a low cost to the public treasury as compared to the institutional solution.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1080/00420988720080491

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