Housing wealth and aged care: asset-based welfare in practice in three OECD countries

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’...

Housing vulnerabilities unravelled: impact of housing policy changes on Dutch households that have difficulties making ends meet

While Dutch housing policy has been moving towards ‘more market’ influences in this century, in response to the triple recession that the Netherlands underwent in the period 2009-2013, government started promoting a participation society. In order to analyse the impact in practice of these developments on vulnerabilities of households, a Dutch...

Housing vulnerabilities unravelled: impact of housing policy changes on Dutch households that have difficulties making ends meet