Understanding housing affordability is key to addressing the housing problem. This study evaluates housing affordability in the Philippines using conventional approaches. It compares Residual Income Method estimates with those from the 30 percent of income standard that is commonly used as a...

This study investigated how filtering contributes to market-provided low-income housing in Australia. It critiques the conceptualisation of filtering as a source of housing for low-income households, tests for the presence of filtering dynamics in housing markets (using Melbourne and Sydney as...

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...

Few communities welcome federally subsidized housing, with one of the most commonly voiced fears being reductions in property values. Yet there is little empirical evidence that subsidized housing depresses neighborhood property values. This paper estimates and compares the neighborhood impacts...

Latin America’s "housing crisis" affects 28 million lower-income households. In many Latin American countries, governments have developed housing policies to provide access to basic standard dwelling and to offer a route towards legal tenure at an affordable cost. Yet, they have failed to...

Trotz einer hohen Sparquote liegen die Deutschen bei der Vermögensbildung breiter Bevölkerungsschichten im internationalen Vergleich weit zurück. Dabei gewinnt die Vermögensbildung nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund einer in absehbarer Zeit immer weniger leistungsfähigen gesetzlichen...

Vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Internationalisierung der Arbeits- und Ausbildungsmärkte in Deutschland wird der Zugang zu qualitativ gutem und bezahlbarem Wohnraum zu einem wichtigen Standort- und Wettbewerbsfaktor. Die Verfügbarkeit von Wohnraum ist zudem eine wichtige Voraussetzung für...