Poor housing conditions, and the negative effects of Household Air Pollution (HAP) in particular, remain one of the most pressing global public health challenges. While the association between poor housing and health has a long history, evidence of a direct link is lacking. In this paper, we...

Between 1950 and 2023, the housing cost burden - approximated by the proportion of total household consumption expenditure spent on housing, water, electricity and fuel - has risen almost steadily in many countries around the world. First, this trend can be explained by substantial improvements...

Poor housing conditions, and the negative effects of Household Air Pollution (HAP) in particular, remain one of the most pressing global public health challenges. While the association between poor housing and health has a long history, evidence of a direct link is lacking. In this paper, we...

The Philippine government has promoted and institutionalized the delivery of basic services in resettlement sites through various flagship housing programs and the issuance of policies, guidelines, and/or standards. Existing literature suggests, however, that most resettlement sites lack the...

This paper presents the results of a research on the social housing policy in United Kingdom, focusing on the case of England. Section 1, presents an effort to summarize the history of this policy. Section 2, approaches social housing policy in England in now days, through its main programs, as...

We study the effects of the SRU law introduced in France in December 2000 to support scattered development of public housing in cities and favor social mixity. This law imposes 20% of public dwellings to all medium and large municipalities of large-enough cities, with fees for those not abiding...

The case for government supply of housing hinges on two key questions: do intended beneficiaries value it more than the cost to the state of providing it, and does relocation to remote housing sites impose unintended costs for movers or society? I study a large-scale lottery in Addis Ababa,...

The Housing Choice Voucher program provides substantial rental subsidies to low-income households, yet many recipients struggle to secure housing with their vouchers, particularly in low-poverty areas. This paper examines a key bottleneck in the program: landlord discrimination against voucher...

"Right to Buy" (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of RTB is...

This article examines Vienna's public housing model as an exemplary case of institutional innovation in the public sector, defined by its regulatory stability, universalist orientation, and resistance to the commodification of urban land. Through a thematic analysis of scientific sources indexed...

"Right to Buy" (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of RTB is...

This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence of the health benefits of a largescale, nationwide programme of home energy-efficiency retrofits in the Netherlands, exploiting individual medicine use from insurers' records. We demonstrate that these home upgrades improve children's health, as...

This paper presents the results of a research on the social housing policy in United Kingdom, focusing on the case of England. Section 1, presents an effort to summarize the history of this policy. Section 2, approaches social housing policy in England in now days, through its main programs, as...

Dieses Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf den Bedarf an Wohn- und Sozialimmobilien am Beispiel der Hansestadt Hamburg. Als zweitgrößte Stadt Deutschlands und bedeutendes urbanes Zentrum eignet sich Hamburg in besonderer Weise für die Analyse...

Housing affordability is a hotly debated issue on global scale. A lack of affordable housing of decent quality is a chronic problem in urban areas. Governments try to alleviate it by stimulating homeownership among middle-income households and providing social housing for the low-income...

The comparative study of housing decommodification lags behind classical welfare state research, while housing research itself is rich in homeownership studies but lacks comparative accounts of private and social rentals due to missing comparative data. Building on existing works and various...

The Philippine government has promoted and institutionalized the delivery of basic services in resettlement sites through various flagship housing programs and the issuance of policies, guidelines, and/or standards. Existing literature suggests, however, that most resettlement sites lack the...

The objective of this annex is complement the 'Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds for investments in social housing and associated services' by providing country fiches with information on the major priorities related to affordable and social housing and associated services included in...

The objective of this annex is complement the 'Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds for investments in social housing and associated services' by providing country fiches with information on the major priorities related to affordable and social housing and associated services included in...

“Right to Buy” (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of...

In dem Antrag der SPD-Landtagsfraktion in NRW wird die Landesregierung für ihre Wohnungspolitik kritisiert (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2023). Dabei werden drei Themen besonders fokussiert: die fehlende Reaktion auf die Wohnungsbaukrise, die unzureichende Unterstützung von Sozialwohnungen und...

This report examines the Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English residential markets with a particular focus on their capacity to increase housing supply over the short to medium term. Our approach compares and contrasts how differences across the housing markets, in key costs of...

Countries in developed and developing worlds have faced growing challenges to solve affordable housing shortages for lower-income households, prompting the adoption of various types of mandates to compel local implementation of affordable housing policy. A large volume of literature has focused...