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Self‐Help Housing

2019· other· en· W2938261110 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban and Rural Development Challenges
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrbanizationPublic housingEconomic growthHuman settlementAffordable housingFrontierElement (criminal law)Self-helpBusinessGeographyPolitical scienceEconomicsFinance

Abstract

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While self‐help housing is most frequently analyzed in developing countries, this entry describes how it is also widespread in Europe, Canada, and the USA, where, historically, vernacular self‐building was commonplace in rural villages and among frontier homesteaders. In urban areas, too, notable self‐help housing experiences are a feature throughout the twentieth century, while today self‐building and self‐management of dwelling development and expansion continue to be a primary method of housing production in low income peri‐urban neighborhoods in Texas and Southern states. In addition, self‐help improvements and DIY (do‐it‐yourself) are an important element in home improvement and housing refurbishment among middle income populations in contemporary Europe and the USA. Widely analyzed in developing countries, self‐help became a significant driver of low income housing development in informal settlements as an outcome of rapid urbanization in the second half of the twentieth century and the inability of the public and private sectors to meet housing demand. From the late 1970s, public policies became largely supportive of self‐help, installing basic infrastructure in previously unserviced communities and providing households with legal title to their homes.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.214
Threshold uncertainty score0.799

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it