The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new ...welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book. Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing; the causes and consequences of the shift from tenants to home owners in the old welfare states of Britain and other parts of Western Europe; and the growth of the property-owning welfare state as a theme running through contemporary policy in both East Asia and Europe.
Social housing in europe Scanlon, Kathleen; Whitehead, Christine; Arrigoitia, Melissa Fernแndez
2014., 2014, 2014-04-15, 2014-04-21
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All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure. Social housing is at the crux of this tension. ...Policy-makers, practitioners and academics want to know how other systems work and are looking for something written in clear English, where there is a depth of understanding of the literature in other languages and direct contributions from country experts across the continent. Social Housing in Europe combines a comparative overview of European social housing written by scholars with in-depth chapters written by international housing experts. The countries covered include Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands and Sweden, with a further chapter devoted to CEE countries other than Hungary. The book provides an up-to-date international comparison of social housing policy and practice. It offers an analysis of how the social housing system currently works in each country, supported by relevant statistics. It identifies European trends in the sector, and opportunities for innovation and improvement. These country-specific chapters are accompanied by topical thematic chapters dealing with subjects such as the role of social housing in urban regeneration, the privatisation of social housing, financing models, and the impact of European Union state aid regulations on the definitions and financing of social housing.
Introduces a special issue of this journal that critically explores the role of policy in both generating and potentially addressing the instability faced by housing systems globally.
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about ...the past two decades of developments in selected countries' social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes.
Contributors depict the different paths the countries have taken by reviewing the policy changes, the conditions institutions work within, and the solutions that were selected to answer the housing needs of vulnerable households. They discuss whether the differences among the countries have emerged due to the time lag caused by belated reforms in selected countries, or whether any of the disparities can be attributed to differences inherited from Soviet times. Since some of the countries have recently become member states of the European Union, the volume also explores whether there were any convergence trends in the policy approaches to social housing that can be attributed to the general changes brought about by the EU accession.
We report on a large-scale urban resettlement program in Uruguay. Under the program, thousands of low- to middle-income households were randomly assigned over the course of seven years to ownership ...of apartments in new buildings in more central areas and received a subsidy averaging $44,000 per household. We match applicants to comprehensive administrative data on employment, schooling, fertility, and voting over the decade after the move. We find that the program led to a small decline in fertility for women and a two-percentage-point increase in formal employment but did not affect school attendance. The relocation program did not result in transformative improvements in the lives of its beneficiaries, likely because of its minimum income requirements and the lack of strong spatial inequality in Uruguay.
•We study a major housing relocation program in Uruguay.•The program ran 187 independent lotteries to allocation new houses and a housing subsidy worth an average of $40,000.•We find limited impacts of the program on employment and fertility, and none on education or political participation.•Lack of impacts appears to be driven by income requirements for the mortgage component of the program, and by limited spatial heterogeneity in Uruguay overall.
Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house ...socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.At Home in Postwar Franceexamines key groups of actors - state officials, ...architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of theTrente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
Globally, various regulations regarding rent control and lease agreements are enacted with the aim of stabilizing the real estate market and ensuring tenants have access to stable housing options. ...This paper delves into the impact of extending lease contract terms, a strategy used alongside lease agreement regulations in South Korea for rent control purposes. It particularly forecasts outcomes using a theoretical framework that incorporates the mortgage-like characteristics of the chonsei system—a distinct lease arrangement prevalent in Korea—and considers the risk of default. This model illustrates how the nearly unconditional extension of chonsei contracts can lead to heightened prices for new chonsei deposits across comparable properties and areas. This escalation prompts a shift from traditional chonsei arrangements to a hybrid model that includes monthly rent payments. Additionally, this research adopts an empirical methodology to corroborate the predictions made by the theoretical model, drawing on credit score data from leading banks and information on real estate transactions. The study sheds light on the paradoxical outcomes of policies aimed at housing stability and explores potential structural shifts within the rental market, proposing pertinent policy recommendations in response to these findings.
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