In recent decades, European housing systems have faced significant challenges, including rising socioeconomic inequalities, demographic shifts, welfare cuts, the financialization of housing markets, and ongoing affordability crises. The Delivering Safe and Social Housing (DASH) project, carried...

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...

Indonesia's housing sector stands at the front line of a changing climate. The country is highly vulnerable to rising heat, intense rainfall, sea-level rise, and seismic events. Located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia faces some of the highest seismic risks in the world, with frequent...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...