可持续发展与可负担住房关系研究

一般而言,在城市可持续发展与可负担住房之间存在一定的冲突,可负担住房和城市可持续发展是世界各国普遍面临的重大挑战。可持续发展意味着要发展紧凑型城市,而紧凑发展的成本要高于低密度住房开发。本文对可持续发展与可负担住房的关系进行了研究,旨在提高人们对可持续住房开发和可负担住房现行做法的理解和认识,认为可负担住房的很多目标与可持续发展的目标是密切联系的,许多旨在实现可持续发展的政策同样有助于提高住房的可负担性。

The Relation Between Sustainable Development and Housing Affordability

Generally,there is a conflict between the approach of sustainable development and affordable housing.Affordable housing and sustainable urban development are major challenges across the world.Sustainable development means compact city and often compact development is more expensive than the low-density residential development.This paper studies the relation between the sustainable development and housing affordability based on review of relevant literature in order to improve our understanding of current practices of sustainable residential development and housing affordability.The conclusion is many objectives of affordable housing closely align with objectives of sustainability,many policies aimming at achieving sustainable development also help to improve housing affordability.