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...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...

Residential segregation is an important challenge in Latin America, particularly since its effects on quality of life and access to urban opportunities are increasingly urgent on the public agenda. Segregation has not only arisen in the region due to the market, but also directly due to the...

The main phases of any housing project are planning, design, execution, regulation, and use. All the stakeholders involved in each phase can impact the project's status and progress. The study has explored the dynamics of acquiring five fundamental housing resources, i.e., physical, financial,...

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...

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...

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...

We provide an in-depth case study of land use reforms in Seattle to highlight how redevelopment of aging single-family housing to townhomes can lead to a significant increase in market-rate housing that promotes affordability. The key is to allow market forces to use by-right zoning to drive...

Zum ersten Mal haben das Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen BWO und das Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Daten und Informationen zum gemeinnützigen Wohnungsbau zusammengetragen und in der Broschüre "Statistik des gemeinnützigen Wohnungsbaus 2024" anschaulich dargestellt. Der gemeinnützige Wohnungsbau...

Dieses Arbeitspapier liefert einen kurzen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Wohnraumförderung in Deutschland und beschreibt den daraus resultierenden Status Quo. Darauf aufbauend wird der Bedarf an (zusätzlichen) Sozialwohnungen ebenso abgeschätzt wie der dafür notwendige Förderbedarf....

Integrating gender perspectives into housing policies is crucial for ensuring equal access and opportunities. Showcasing Valencia's ambitious project to make social housing gender-inclusive, this report highlights the integration of a gender perspective into new public housing projects,...

“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...

Die Erschwinglichkeit von Wohnraum ist ein zentrales Anliegen in der aktuellen politischen Debatte. Dabei gibt es Forderungen nach preisgünstigem Wohnraum aber auch solche nach direkter Unterstützung von einkommensschwachen Mietenden. Was ist letztlich effektiver? Der Verband Immobilien...

The provision of new subsidized housing projects presents an effective solution for alleviating the significant housing deficit in developing countries. However, limited knowledge exists regarding how these housing projects impact the quality of the surrounding environment, particularly when...

In recent years, many European Union (EU) countries have seen house prices rising more strongly than inflation, with rent levels also increasing significantly. Consequently, growing attention is given to the issue of housing affordability in the rental market by policymakers, researchers, and...

We investigate the employment effects of living in affordable housing. We develop a unique administrative data set of labor market biographies linked to affordable housing projects in five German cities. This allows us to follow individuals in affordable housing over almost 20 years. The funding...

The housing crisis is present across the whole of the EU, with some Member States facing it more starkly than others. Many Europeans struggle to find affordable and decent housing. Housing is not only a question of bricks and mortar. It impacts our communities and our social cohesion. The right...

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 goal of this paper is to briefly study the system of Public Housing in Hong Kong and Spain, and to compare them. On the one hand, Hong Kong has more than 7.2million residents crammed into a relatively small land mass,a fact which, among others, provokes that real estate prices are extremely...

This paper estimates the effect of renovating vacant properties into low-income housing rental units on neighborhood crime. We utilized proprietary micro data on the location and timing of the renovation of vacant low-income housing in West Philadelphia to estimate the effect of remediating...

This study evaluates the effect of affordable housing policy on households' rent burden using the 421-a Tax Exemption Program in New York City. The program requires developers of housing projects in Geographic Exclusion Areas (GEA) to provide 20% of new units as affordable housing for a tax...

Due to their negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods, some countries have gradually been replacing distressed public housing developments with mixed-income housing. This paper studies the effects of such policies on local housing markets in London (UK), where local authorities demolished...