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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. (author), Lennartz, C. (author), Dol, K. (author)
Housing outcomes are predominantly compared in terms of individual indicators, in-cluding such items as quality or affordability measures, where the outcomes of the individual measures are often not linked in a preceding research step. However, the creation of a composite indicator of housing outcomes, in which these individual measures are...
report 2012
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Oxley, M. (author), Brown, T. (author), Haffner, M. (author), Hoekstra, J. (author)
The size of the private rented housing sector (PRS) varies markedly between coun-tries. The paper explores the role of policy in supporting the PRS with emphasis on the evidence from France, Germany, the UK and the USA. The definition and meas-urement of the size of the sector in each country is considered. A key issue that is explored is the...
report 2011
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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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Oxley, M. (author), Brown, T. (author), Haffner, M. (author), Hoekstra, J. (author), Lishman, R. (author)
The paper considers the role of the private rented sector in supplying housing that can be defined as social housing. It will do this by considering policy initiatives in Germany, France, the USA and England that use privately owned housing to meet social needs. The operation of these initiatives will be compared. The allocation and rent...
report 2011
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)
This research had been carried out at request of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
report 2011
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M. (author)
Urban renewal in the Netherlands has become a matter of ‘networking’. Housing associations, Dutch social landlords, became financially independent in the 1990s and have a responsibility in urban renewal. It is a joint responsibility in which local authority, social landlord and tenants are dependent on each other. This situation is rather new...
journal article 2009
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)
book 2009
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Lennartz, C. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Oxley, M.J. (author)
When policy makers claim that rented housing has to become more competitive, there is no consensus on what competition in this context actually means. The same holds true for scientific housing research: Theories that have utilized the economic concept of competition tend to rely on implicit definitions or focus on selected aspects. In...
conference paper 2009
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), de Vries, P. (author)
This paper discusses house price developments in the Netherlands, specifically focussing on the question whether current house prices in the Dutch owner-occupied market are likely to decrease. We analyse three aspects of the question based on a literature review: (1) whether there is a house price bubble ready to burst; (2) whether house prices...
conference paper 2009
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Lawson, J.M. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Oxley, M.J. (author)
Comparative housing research encompasses a broad range of strategies and foci, which has promoted the exchange of information, catalysed policy development and encouraged theoretical debate. This presentation briefly outlines the different purpose (policy description, evaluation, strategic understanding and theoretical explanation), logical...
conference paper 2009
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Van Overmeeren, A.J. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)
This article analyzes the function, design, and effects of a method to assess the performance of housing associations in the Netherlands. First, the roles of performance assessment are discussed from three perspectives: the association as an agent for the central government; the association as a facilitator of local stakeholders’ needs; and the...
journal article 2009
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Groetelaers, D.A. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), van der Heijden, H.M.H. (author), Korthals Altes, W.K. (author), Tasan-Kok, M.T. (author)
In deze bijdrage brengen we in kaart hoe de Nederlandse praktijk van lage grondprijzen voor corporatiewoningen zich verhoudt tot de Europese regelgeving over staatssteun. Is de huidige praktijk toelaatbaar en zo nee, hoe kan wel worden voldaan aan de Europese regels?
journal article 2009
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Haffner, M. (author), Hoekstra, J. (author), Oxley, M. (author), Van der Heijden, H. (author)
The once clear demarcation of funding and roles of the social and market rental sectors seems to have become blurred in a number of European countries. Social renting is no longer provided only by non-profit organisations. The extent to which a gap can be identified between the social and market rental sectors in six countries in north-west...
book 2009
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Oei, A. (author), Elsinga, M. (author)
Corporaties hebben bij het uitvoeren van stedelijke vernieuwingstaken te maken met een netwerk van betrokken organisaties. Het functioneren daarvan en de rol van de gebiedsafspraken en het masterplan hierin vormen de kern van dit onderzoeksproject. Zij worden vanuit de bestuurskundige netwerkbenadering en vanuit de praktijk bestudeerd. Aangezien...
report 2007
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van der Heijden, H.M.A. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Reitsma, A.A. (author)
book 2002
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author)
book 1992
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