Angesichts beträchtlicher Funktionsmängel des Wohnungsmarktes besteht wohnungspolitischer Handlungsbedarf. Die Studie zeigt, daß der soziale Mietwohnungsbau nicht in der Lage ist, einkommensschwache Haushalte und soziale Randgruppen effizient mit Wohnraum zu versorgen. Einzelne...

Der soziale Mietwohnungsbau - bis heute eine der tragenden Säulen staatlicher Wohnungspolitik - ist vor allem wegen seiner Verteilungswirkungen in die Kritik geraten. Bemängelt wird, daß auch besserverdienende Mieter trotz Fehlbelegungsabgabe massiv subventioniert werden. Anfang der 90er...

In Deutschland gibt es aktuell eine rege wohnungsmarktpolitische Diskussion bezüglich verschiedener staatlicher Eingriffe. Zur Bereicherung dieser Diskussion kann es hilfreich sein, die Umsetzung von Fördermaßnahmen in anderen Ländern näher zu betrachten. In diesem Artikel wird die...

This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it to assess annual migration flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990...

"'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs. This groundbreaking...

We investigate the impact on social welfare of the United Kingdom (UK) policy introduced in 1980 by which public housing tenants (council housing in UK parlance) had the right to purchase their houses at heavily discounted prices. This was known as the Right to Buy (RTB) policy. Although this...

This research examines the impact of a home energy efficiency upgrade programme on social housing tenants. Employing a quasi-experimental approach we examine a range of self-reported and objectively measured outcomes, including metered gas consumption, for a control and upgrade group, before and...

A fundamental question in economics is whether happiness increases pari passu with improvements in material conditions or whether humans grow accustomed to better conditions over time. We rely on a large-scale experiment to examine what kind of impact the provision of housing to extremely poor...

We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our...

We examine the impact of subsidized housing on homelessness using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest place-based housing program in the United States. To generate quasi-experimental variation in housing placements, we exploit a discontinuous increase in the amount of tax...

This paper explores situations where tenants in public houses, in a specific neighborhood, are given the legislated right to buy the houses they live in or can choose to remain in their houses and pay the regulated rent. This type of legislation has been passed in many European countries in the...

The Community Mortgage Program (CMP) is a financing scheme that enables organized residents of slums to borrow for land purchase and housing development. It is already considered to be the most innovative and responsive government housing program in the Philippines. Nevertheless, the CMP has yet...