Preview

Harvard Housing Survey Case Study

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
839 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Harvard Housing Survey Case Study
MKT-810
Assignment 3-Harvard housing survey case study

Introduction
Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) conducted a survey, which related to students housing experience and desires in 2001. The ample of feedbacks that supported and improved Harvard’s housing decision-making. In front of HRES, there are newly 2005 housing survey related Harvard’s “ Allston initiative” on the desk. HRES wants to update, improve and expand upon the 2001 survey to generate useful information to influence future house design and marketing decisions.

2001 Survey feedback
The first impression of the 2001 survey is logically clear but relatively long. The survey collected information as a logical sequence: from experience to expectation, from a broad point of view to a specific point of view, and from house to personal. A strong feeling of the survey is that, it really wants to cover every specific situation, but it becomes too specify and relatively longer than a “20 minutes survey’s” expectation. Emotionally, as a participant of the survey, they will feel very “thoughtful” of the survey maker who shows the consideration of everyone.

When conduct of the survey there are some points that I think really stops me. First, for questions that has too specific answer or choice. To those, I have to stop and read all those choice very slowly and verify their difference carefully. Like the question ask to specify current privately–owned house, it takes time to verify “private market in a single-family house, ” “private market in a multi-family house,” and “exchange service for a room in a house.” Second, for questions that rates the satisfaction and expectation. It also takes time to distinct the different feeling for each of those specific units. While, to the point that drives me continue that will be the logical sequence the survey have and the skillful position of complex questions the survey did. Most of time, the logical consequence attracts me to know what the next question

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Complainant, who is African-American and who has a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) administered by the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), alleges that Respondents refused to rent to her based on her race and source of income. Complainant states that on May 14, 2016, she applied for an available apartment with the Terrazio Apartments at 1935 S. Wabash. Complainant says that Respondents approved her application and gave her a move-in date of May 28, 2016.…

    • 162 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Bsbwor501 Case Study 3

    • 669 Words
    • 3 Pages

    There is not enough purpose or direction present to encourage the participant to give revealing answers (Cooper & Schindler, 2014). Having a more direct, concise, and structured questionnaire would not only get the feedback that is warranted, increase participation, but more time could be used to reevaluate the response that are received. This survey was not designed properly to accomplish the specified…

    • 669 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Drawing on a combination of data, this paper aims to identify how second homeowners in Boston make their locational choices and how they engage in Boston, its neighborhoods, and its institutions. Over the past 10 years, second homeownership has increased by almost 92% across the city and is heavily concentrated in central city neighborhoods. While popular media has drawn considerable attention to this phenomenon, the growing presence of second homeowners and their corresponding role in urban change has receive little systematic analytic attention. This analysis seeks to begin to rectify this neglect by documenting two waves of second homeowners in Boston—city speculators and city specters—who maintain diverging orientations to and engagements…

    • 194 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Home Ownership Workshop was held on Saturday, February 6, 2016. It was held in the Logan City Library and was put on by the USU Family Life Center - Housing and Financial Counseling. There were several staff, interns, and community members that presented at this workshop. The following is an overview of what each speaker presented on, and may not be in chorological order of how they presented the information.…

    • 1425 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Why urban parents resist involvement in their children 's elementary education. (2000). The Qualitative Report (5):3. Retrieved from…

    • 1666 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Everyday when I am driving to college, I see homeless people on the side of the road and I can't help wondering if there is any way I could help them out. Housing First is a program solely dedicated to giving chronically homeless and homeless citizens a home first, although this program is mainly intended for chronically homeless citizens it can also be used by homeless citizens. Chronically homeless citizens have been living on the streets for more than a year, and homeless citizens have been living on the streets for less than a year. Once they are settled in their case manager they were assigned, help them focus on getting a job or rehabilitation if needed. The program also reduces the amount of money the state spends on chronically homeless…

    • 1081 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    *Houses cost are to high but jobs aren't being generated to support those type of princess off…

    • 186 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Andrew LePage. "On-Campus Housing Demand Swamps Sacramento, Calif.-Area Universities." Sacramento Bee, The (CA) (n.d.). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. [Library name], 29 Oct. 2008 .…

    • 1303 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Best Essays

    Affordable by Design by Alice Horrigan, www.emagazine.com Affordable Housing Issues, Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing • Design Matters in Affordable Housing (December 1999) • Top Ten State and Local Strategies to Increase Affordable Housing Supply (February 2003) • Impact of Construction and Real Estate on Florida’s Economy (June 2003) • Low Impact Development (April 2004) Affordable Housing regulations, City of Redmond, WA Affordable Housing: Meeting a Town’s Affordable Housing Obligation While Protecting Natural Resources, Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions Affordable Housing Task Force Report, City of Anna Arbor, MI Affordable Housing: Why So Many Failures? by Arrol Gellner American Planning Association Planning • “Not Your Grandmother’s Granny Flat” by James H. Andrews (March 2005) • “Here to Stay: Mobile home parks hold their own” by Meghan Stromberg (February 2005) • “Affordable Housing in an Unaffordable Region” by Kristin Palm (January 2005) • “Putting the Force in Workforce Housing” by Tim Sullivan (November 2004) • “Both Adffluent and Affordable” by Randy Richardson (November 2004) APA Policy Guide on Factory Built Housing 2001 Barriers to Affordable Workforce Housing Lock Out Low and Mid-Income Families by Carole Pawlak, www.sahba.org City ordinance would link new development, affordable housing by Ronald Leir, Bayonne Journal Creating Affordable Housing, www.bobvila.com Definition, Affordable Housing, Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department Expanding Development of Affordable Housing in New York City: An Action Plan for Reducing Costs and Stimulating Construction, Housing First…

    • 557 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    The problem faced by Harvard executives at Harvard Real Estate Services was how to achieve the business objective of increasing the volume of graduate students who rent Harvard houses over private homes by 40%. The Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) team wanted to know how their development of new student housing property that is at the designing stage, better appeal to Harvard students, and help attain the goal of obtaining their residency. For this purpose a marketing research was conducted with the objective made more specific to which characteristics are the most important in obtaining students to choose residency from Harvard rather than private housing, so as to decide how to design the housing, which attributes students care about most, and if designing the housing in some specific ways would better guarantee that students would choose to live in the Harvard student housing over private housing. From a prior 2001 survey it was seen that cost, space, and location were the 3 most important attributes to students. So the new survey was framed to get information about whether these three factors are still the most important for the students’ housing decision and their respective weights, does the housing affect the choice of school, and to what extent are cost, space, and location of housing actually considered by students in their research and decision making to make a choice among schools to attend. As the marketing research objectives and topics of this survey were attempting to learn market characteristics like interest, desires, perceptions, behaviours of the target audience i.e. students, the research design was descriptive.…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains • Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos…

    • 2039 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    1) My first review is on Elsdon which is a website published by Porirua City Council. This website is part of the Council’s general information to the general public about Elsdon. They wrote this piece of literature so that people could get a general overview of Elsdon, and they wrote it for general knowledge of the area. The key information for this piece of literature is that houses in Elsdon are usually snapped up by first time buyers and new families. Porirua City Council (2012) states that the housing prices in Elsdon range from $160,000 to $280,000, the median sale price is $237,000 and the more expensive homes in Elsdon range up to $300,000. The houses being moderately inexpensive produce higher profits for home owners that are renting their properties out. Porirua City Council (2012) states that Elsdon houses are quintessentially Kiwi boxy weatherboard three bedroom houses, they are mostly similar in construction, but are all in different condition and colour. They all reflect the designs of the houses largely built in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Many have had modifications, with granny flats, garages, and sleep outs added on to the property. Porirua City Council (2012) states that the iwi’s “tightly held” homes, are generally passed down from generation to generation, or sold privately to other Ngati Toa descendants, often without the use of real estate agents. (Porirua City Council, 2012). This piece of literature was not written with quality verified information, there was no proof stating what they said was nothing more than general information and their opinion. It informs the reader of the housing prices, the housing structure and how the Iwi deal with selling their own properties.…

    • 943 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    V

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages

    There is an increasing number of dormitories, apartments and condominium units that are housing students and families. This is because of the presence of universities, colleges, and secondary schools in the area.…

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Give your suggestion or opinion to improve the quality of services and facilities in the Ungku Omar Polytechnic Library.…

    • 572 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Internet

    • 938 Words
    • 4 Pages

    to gather useful and informational data effectively. Survey questions vary according to what type of information that we are trying to collect from the respondents, this information will apply to the goals of the survey. In order to achive the goal, we have construct necessary question to helps us in masking conclusion for the hyphothesis made. These data were collected by conducted the survey from the questionnaires that distributed to the respondents. By then, we will do analysis.…

    • 938 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays