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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...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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Abstracts: Comparative housing research: approaches and policy challenges in a new international eraA 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)conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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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,...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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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-Andersens The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Kemenys classification of dualist/unitary housing markets, shows the authors similar explanations for the...conference paper 2010
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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...conference paper 2010
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Kleinhans, R. (author), Varady, D. (author)Comparing US and Dutch experiences, this paper seeks to determine whether the demolition of public housing results in waterbed effects, i.e. the shift of crime and other social problems to nearby fragile neighbourhoods, as a result of residential relocation patterns. Notwithstand-ing fundamental contextual differences, existing research shows...conference paper 2010
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Can Oguz, S. (author)Efficient use of stock is a prominent question in housing economics and policy formation. However, there is little research on the subject in housing literature and in Turkey. This paper firstly aims to investigate the housing stock efficiency by measuring the degree to which the housing stock matches household size. Secondly, it compares the...conference paper 2010
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Tobing, R.R. (author)The issue of housing development for low income group in Indonesia had already been done for four decades since 1970, but still facing many problems particularly on seeking for the suitable patterns due to community conditions. Housing cooperative is one of the systems which had been adopted by the government and implemented in some large cities...conference paper 2010
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Ndubueze, O. (author)Over the years, there has been an increasing shift towards expanding the role of markets in the social and public policy delivery systems of nations. The pro-market shift has gained ascendancy largely due to the increasing dominance of western neo-liberal economic thinking, which emphasise market dynamism and efficiency in national economic...conference paper 2010
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Gruis, V. (author), Nieboer, V. (author), Tsenkova, S. (author)The sale of public and social housing has been a major aspect of housing policies in the past decades. In all countries, privatisation has led to new challenges for housing manage-ment. Many estates are now in a state of mixed (public and private) ownership, which raises questions about the division of responsibilities between public and private...conference paper 2010