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Fernández Pérez, A. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)Despite persistent housing affordability issues, energy policy and housing renovation are usually investigated separately from housing costs other than energy. Researchers have examined the financial viability of renovation attending to building conditions and the socio-economic characteristics of their occupants. However, the distributional...journal article 2024
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Wilcox, A.Y. (author), Mota, Nelson (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)The South African Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was initiated to provide subsidised housing for low‐income families. However, the programme faced challenges in establishing adequate technical guidelines and standards, resulting in subpar housing quality. This article discusses the multifaceted nature of subsidised housing design...journal article 2024
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Fernández Pérez, A. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)The regulation of financial markets according to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria has become a priority for the European Union (EU). Recent legislation, such as the EU Green Taxonomy, aims to identify sustainable investments enhancing transparency and accountability while steering private finance toward environmental...journal article 2023
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Dewilde, Caroline (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The nature of housing as a service (fulfilling basic needs) and a capital-intensive commodity (houses and the ‘underlying’ land have exchange value) hampers comparative understandings of ‘housing policy’, and its relation to social policy research. On the one hand, housing is a pillar of social policy, addressing social problems in the urban...book chapter 2022
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- Schmid, Christoph U. (author), Haapakka, Merja (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Hamm, Hartwig (author), Lux, Martin (author), Nasarre-Aznar, Sergio (author), Whitehead, Christine (author) report 2022
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Fernández Pérez, A. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)The Renovation Wave is the latest addition to a series of European measures designed to incentivise investment in a low-carbon built environment. In terms of residential retrofits, research has focused on how structural measures can reduce costs through energy savings and improve affordability in the long term. However, it is less clear how...journal article 2022
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Yan, J. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from...review 2021
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Yan, J. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)In the past decade, Public Rental Housing (PRH) has become the program of providing affordable rental housing to low- and middle-income households in China. Even though descriptions of the governance results are numerous, the previous studies are not underpinned by a theoretical foundation from a governance perspective, nor have they...journal article 2021
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The pathways that Dutch and German housing policies took in the past decades resulted in two different rental markets. The Dutch policies have delivered the largest social rental sector in the Western world, while Germany has produced one of the largest private rental sectors in Europe. The latter implies that officially no social rental sector...book chapter 2021
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Zhang, Lily N. (author), Solomon, Susan (author), Stone, Kane A. (author), Shanklin, Jonathan D. (author), Eveson, Joshua D. (author), Colwell, Steve (author), Burrows, John P. (author), Weber, Mark (author), Levelt, Pieternel Felicitas (author), Kramarova, Natalya A. (author), Haffner, David P. (author)Measurements by the Dobson ozone spectrophotometer at the British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Halley research station form a record of Antarctic total column ozone that dates back to 1956. Due to its location, length, and completeness, the record has been, and continues to be, uniquely important for studies of long-term changes in Antarctic...journal article 2021
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Wood, Gavin A. (author), Ong, Rachel (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The transition of the baby boomer bulge into old age and their increasing longevity will lift the numbers of elderly in residential aged care. Population ageing and associated fiscal pressures have motivated governments to shift responsibility for the financing of aged care to the individual. We consider policies that include owner-occupiers’...journal article 2020
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)In vergelijking met andere landen in Europa liep Nederland voorop in de krimp van de particuliere huursector. Deze periode duurde tot 2012. De sector werd de kleinste eigendomssector in vergelijking met de andere landen. Een trendbreuk lijkt te zijn opgetreden sinds Nederland de laatste financiële crisis van 2007 te boven is gekomen....journal article 2020
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Yan, J. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chinese policy language on public rental housing (PRH) provision. To...journal article 2020
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Van den Nieuwenhof, Patrick (author), Chert, Christina Victoria (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Baeten, Rita (author), Messkoub, Mahmood (author), Murphy, Mary (author), Nicaise, Ides (author)This report constitutes Deliverable 6.1 ‘National case study reports on social investment in basic service markets’, for Work Package x of the RE-InVEST project.report 2019
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)The capability approach as a normative approach to wellbeing focuses on the real freedoms of people to choose the life they want to live (Sen, 1999). This approach is regarded as an alternative to the needs-based approach of paternalistic welfare states in Europe and seems to match well with the ambitions of the European Commission ‘to show a...journal article 2019
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Korthals Altes, W.K. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The 2016 Pact of Amsterdam launched the Urban Agenda for the European Union. Within its framework, partnerships of urban authorities, Member States and other stakeholders have developed action plans to achieve better funding, better knowledge and better regulation for the priority theme of their partnership. This study provides an overview and...report 2019
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Hulse, Kath (author)The literature on housing affordability has grown rapidly since Hulchanski [1995, p. 489. The concept of housing affordability: six contemporary uses of the housing expenditure-to-income ratio. Housing Studies, 10(4), 471–491] declared that housing researchers should avoid using the term since it is not a robust concept and measurement often...journal article 2019
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Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Dol, C.P. (author)This report and its Annex present the results of the research project “Promoting the contribution of private savings to pension adequacy: Integrating residential property with private pensions in the EU” led by iff, institute for financial services, Hamburg. Financial support by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and...report 2018
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Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Dol, C.P. (author)This Annex together with the final report present the results of the research project “Promoting the contribution of private savings to pension adequacy: Integrating residential property with private pensions in the EU” led by iff, institute for financial services, Hamburg. Financial support by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social...report 2018
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Moth, Rich (author), Neary, Dave (author), Lavalette, Michael (author), Baeten, Rita (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Messkoub, Mahmood (author), Murphy, Mary (author), Nicaise, Ides (author), Ünver, Özgün (author)This report examines trends in social investment in England following the financial crisis of 2007/8. The first section considers social investment in relation to four policy arenas: housing, financial services, early childhood education and care, and water. The second part of the report provides an overview of social investment and...report 2018