Chile has made considerable progress in promoting access to affordable good-quality housing over the past two decades …. The proportion of households that have no housing or that live in sub-standard housing has fallen from 23% in 1992 to 10 …% in 2011 (Ministerio Desarrollo Social 2013). Nevertheless, the incidence of poor quality housing and overcrowding is …

This paper develops OECD information on housing policies and the degree to which OECD countries pursue social policy … housing, but public support for social rental housing is declining in many countries and the private rental sector is playing … an increasingly important role in promoting access to affordable housing. In almost all OECD countries housing support is …