Evaluation of the Affordability Level of State-Sector Housing Built in Iran: Case Study of the Maskan-e-Mehr Project in Zanjan City
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Abstract
Supplying affordable housing for urban lower- and medium-income classes has always been considered an important planning objective. The policies of Iran’s fourth and fifth development plan (referred to as Maskan-e-Mehr or Kindness Housing Project) is intended to supply more affordable housing for the urban low-income classes. For this purpose, the state sector has strove to reduce the average house price as much as possible through cession of land in cities and new towns surrounding metropolises. In turn, families just have to pay the housing construction. Unfortunately, the lack of suitable services and facilities in these areas has resulted in an increase in household transportation costs. Therefore, the present research work deals with evaluating the affordability level of these houses through a new index of housing affordability, which simultaneously considers housing and transportation costs. The study revealed that high transportation costs that result from inadequate accessibility to public transportation and neighborhood services, and high payback of the monthly installments of the housing loan from the other side has resulted in spending more than 45.2% of the family income on housing construction and more than 25.8% on commuting. This means, in general, about 71% of the families’ income is spent on housing and transportation combined; these figures show lack of affordability of these houses for target groups (low-income classes).
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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