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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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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)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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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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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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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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Schenkeveld, V. M.Erik (author), Jaross, Glen (author), Marchenko, Sergey (author), Haffner, David (author), Kleipool, Quintus L. (author), Rozemeijer, Nico C. (author), Veefkind, j. Pepijn (author), Levelt, Pieternel Felicitas (author)The Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) is an imaging spectrograph flying on NASA's EOS Aura satellite since 15 July 2004. OMI is primarily used to map trace-gas concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere, obtaining mid-resolution (0.4-0.6 nm) ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS; 264-504 nm) spectra at multiple (30-60) simultaneous fields...journal article 2017
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Priemus, H. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)In 2006, responsibility for implementing the Dutch housing allowance system was transferred from the Ministry of Housing to the Tax Authority. It has since been renamed, and is now known as the ‘rent rebate system’. A number of dilemmas have become evident since the 2006 changes. Attention has shifted to how to implement the system effectively:...journal article 2017
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Jefferson, T (author), Austen, S (author), Ong, R (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Wood, G.A. (author)Housing wealth dominates the asset portfolios of the older population in Australia and many other countries. Given the anticipated spike in fiscal costs associated with population ageing, there is growing policy interest in housing equity withdrawal (HEW) to finance living needs in retirement. This paper sheds light on homeowners’ perceptions...journal article 2017
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- Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Tang, C. (author), Oxley, M (author) journal article 2016
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Winters, S (author)Belgium devolved administrative and budgetary responsibility for the favourable income tax treatment of owner-occupied dwellings to its administrative regions in July 2014. This change allowed the regions to redesign their housing-related tax instruments. This paper examines a tax policy reorientation of the Flemish Region. It specifically...journal article 2016
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)In this Briefing Paper the focus is on the EU-SILC and on the questions: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pan-European data set EU-SILC, which stands for ‘European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions’? How useful is this database when making international housing comparisons? The examples in this paper are based on my...journal article 2015
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Ong, R. (author), Jefferson, T. (author), Austen, S. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Wood, G.A. (author)More Australian home owners are using housing equity withdrawal to unlock financial resources to fund living expenses, especially in retirement. Policy is needed to address potential adverse consequences of these strategies.journal article 2014
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Lennartz, C. (author), Haffner, M. (author), Oxley, M. (author)Housing policies in many countries have become more market orientated as the role of governments has shifted from the direct supply and funding of non-market housing towards the role of a regulator and facilitator. Central to this development is the notion that providers of social housing have to become more competitive. Arguably, these social...journal article 2012
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Heylen, K. (author)Recently housing affordability has reached the agenda in Flanders and the Netherlands, giving a good reason to present a review of the concept of affordability and different definitions. The concept of short-term affordability, which is concerned with financial access to a dwelling and is based on cash flows, is combined with the concept of long...journal article 2011
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