Print Email Facebook Twitter Western European housing systems and the impact of the international financial crisis Title Western European housing systems and the impact of the international financial crisis Author Van der Heijden, H.M.H. Dol, K. Oxley, M. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2011-06-10 Abstract The central proposition advanced in this paper is that differences in the structure of housing systems, and specifically the differences between dynamic and static housing systems, are crucial to an explanation of the varying impacts between countries of the international financial crisis. The proposition is illustrated with reference to Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The impacts on housing markets and housing policies are considered and it is shown that these are more significant in dynamic than in static systems. It is argued that whilst the classification of housing systems as dynamic and static adds an important new explanation for the varying impacts of the crisis, this is most usefully viewed as a complementary, rather than an alternative, perspective to other sets of explanations. Subject Housing systemFinancial crisisHousing marketHousing policy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:940ac067-3a84-4253-865b-ad1064616351 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-011-9230-0 Publisher Springer Verlag ISSN 1573-7772 Source Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 26 (3), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2011 The Author(s). This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF heijden2011.pdf 243.3 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:940ac067-3a84-4253-865b-ad1064616351/datastream/OBJ/view