Released in 2009, the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program has been boosted the Brazilian housing production and changes the cities landscape, mainly in peripheral areas where the housing estates or complex of housing estates ...

We investigate the extent of convergence club formation in local house prices. Our study is novel in a number of key ways. First, new insights are obtained through utilising a large disaggregated panel dataset comprising ...

Isla Negra, Michoacán, La Chascona and La Sebastiana are the names that the Chilean Nobel lauret poet, Pablo Neruda, used to refer to his houses. Neruda build his houses, he named them and wrote poetry to them. The names, ...

The aim of this work is to assess the rental assistance programme that was implemented by the Catalan regional government in the 2010s using administrative data provided by the Catalonia Housing Agency to analyse whether ...

Furthermore, we estimate price and income elasticities coefficients that quantify the households' dwelling quality response to price and income variation. Thus, a 1% increase in prices reduces the average dwelling quality ...

After the decrease of the relative importance of Triatoma infestans, a number of studies reported the occurrence of sylvatic triatomines dispersing actively to domestic environments in the dry western Chaco Region of ...

The ‘adaptive modulation hypothesis’ predicts that activity of digestive enzymes should match the amount of their substrates in diet. Interestingly, many passerine birds do not adjust the activity of intestinal carbohydrases ...