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Pernot, M. (author)
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Bridge, C. (author)
Increasingly governments of countries where homeownership is high are looking to housing assets to fund long-term care. Housing wealth can be viewed both as an asset for low-income older homeowners and by government as having potential as an asset base for purchasing support services or supplementing income. However, there are several key...
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Renaud, B. (author)
The central theme of this conference is the transferability of public housing policies and private practices from country to country – and presumably from city to city as well. To explore the role of international financial institutions (IFIs) in the transfer of these housing policies and practices, the paper is divided in three unequal parts....
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Lockmer, C. (author), Kouvo, A. (author)
The ethnic composition of a neighbourhood is an important factor determining the possibilities for inter-ethnic relations between citizens as well as attitudes to different ethnic groups. There has been, especially in recent years, lots of research concerning the intertwined relations of ethnicity, residentiality and attitudes towards people of...
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Chiu, R.L.H. (author)
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Monk, S. (author)
Securing land and finance for additional affordable housing is a fundamental problem in all countries. This paper presents a case study of England where the s106 policy of delivering affordable housing through the planning system has been operating since 1990. It explores the role of the policy in meeting not only need for affordable housing but...
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Blessing, A. (author)
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Toussaint, J. (author), Elsinga, M. (author)
In many European countries ageing of the population puts pressure on collective welfare provision for the elderly. It is assumed that households increasingly have to take care of own financial means or rely more on family members in retirement. For the owner-occupiers, their dwelling – more specifically their housing equity – is usually the...
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A joint event between the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy and the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR)
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Bengtsson, B. (author), Ruonavaara, H. (author)
Comparative social and political research often contains a historical dimension. Lately it has become fashionable to refer to this dimension with the term path dependence. In this paper we propose an approach to comparative housing research that takes the path dependence of social and political processes seriously. In contrast to the traditional...
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Mallach, A. (author)
Inclusionary housing is the use of the planning process to create social or affordable housing, by requiring or providing incentives to private developers to create affordable housing as a part of market?driven developments, either by incorporating the affordable housing into the development, building it elsewhere, or contributing money or land...
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Matsaganis, M. (author)
This paper attempts to contribute to the analysis of mortgage interest tax relief from the perspective of the economics of social policy. It begins with a brief discussion of “fiscal welfare”, highlighting key contributions within this particular intellectual tradition. It then contrasts this largely critical approach to the standard, more...
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Nubi, T. (author), Oyalowo, B. (author)
The aim of this paper is to show how the interplay between social needs and economic realities affects housing policy in developing countries. The paper addresses the very topical issue of housing finance policy for low-income dwellers in rapidly urbanizing African countries. The paper locates housing finance firmly within the neo-liberal...
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Oxley, M. (author), Haffner, M. (author), Hoekstra, J. (author), Van der Heijden, H. (author)
The paper will argue that the meaning and definition of private renting varies from country to country and this presents a series of challenges for comparative research. It will demonstrate a lack of equivalence between “private rented housing sectors” in Western Europe and show that this arises from variations in definitions, property rights,...
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Bailey, N. (author), Manzi, T. (author)
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Pawson, H. (author), Hulse, K. (author)
Within the burgeoning of literature on policy transfer there has been substantial emphasis on areas such as ‘welfare reform’ and labour market policies, with explanations ranging from the pivotal role of policy entrepreneurs and their networks to the reconfiguration of historically contingent institutional arrangements. This paper seeks to...
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Lennartz, C. (author)
This paper discusses the relation between typologies of welfare states and housing systems. An analysis of arguably the most prominent works in the two research fields, Esping-Andersen’s ‘The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’ and Kemeny’s classification of dualist/unitary housing markets, shows the authors’ similar explanations for the...
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Dol, K. (author), Van der Heijden, H. (author), Oxley, M. (author)
The central question in our paper is how the crisis impacts on national housing markets: how vulnerable are specific housing systems to the crisis? We searched for the consequences of the current crisis on housing markets in five countries: Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and England. The results show that we must first of all make a...
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