Aya Samir Fahmy Badawy

PhD Overview

Providing affordable housing is a crucial issue worldwide. In many countries such as the UK, planning systems enforce private land developers to provide affordable housing in exchange for approval on development. Yet, this obligation towards affordable housing can be negotiated between developers, local authorities and several stakeholders. My PhD research explores the potential of simulating those negotiations on a computer to illustrate and understand the factors affecting the negotiation outcomes, and in turn, housing provision. I developed two agent-based models of those negotiations and engaged with experts from the English planning system to understand how they accept those models.