Demand and supply of labour in the housing sector

The housing sector is large and significant in all aspects of human life, making the task of the policy-maker especially complex. Homes constitute the largest single land use in the ‘built environment’, they are generally the largest single item of expenditure in household budgets and the largest form of household wealth, and they are...

Home ownership: Getting in, getting from, getting out. Part III

This book provides an overview of the effects of home ownership, a housing sector that has grown rapidly in recent years in many countries, not least because this is normally encouraged by governments. The first part of the subtitle, ‘Getting in’, refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access,...

Property-based welfare and European homeowners: How would housing perform as a pension?

Notwithstanding current market volatility, there has been exceptional expansion in owner-occupied housing sectors and increases in house prices across European countries in recent decades. In the EU, individual wealth held in housing equity, especially among older people, has been considered a substantial reserve that could be tapped into to...

Home ownership and asset-based welfare

Housing and demographic change

Home ownership: Getting in, getting from, getting out. Part II

Home ownership: Getting in, getting from, getting out

Globalisation and home ownership: Experiences in eight member states of the European Union