This paper draws upon the findings of two empirical research studies examining how the dynamics of a vibrant Australian housing market impact upon young people’s housing and often lead to homelessness for the most vulnerable, particularly care leavers. Largely excluded from home ownership; ineligible for social housing and forced to rely upon a highly competitive private rental market, many Aus...

Housing security is an important determinant of mental ill health. We used a quasinatural experiment to evaluate this association, comparing the prevalence of mental ill health in the United Kingdom before and after the government's April 2011 reduction in financial support for low-income persons who rent private-sector housing (mean reduction of approximately £1,220 ($2,315) per year). Data ca...

Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in “real wages”, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous researchers typically have us...

U.S. Census Data The sample of adults used in the analysis includes all individuals between the age of 18 and 64, were not in group quarters such as prisons and psychiatric institutions, and who lived in a metropolitan area available in the Census IPUMS. All available MSAs are used in analysis except for Biloxi-Gulfport, MS, Flint, MI, and Reno, NV. These MSAs are dropped because of obvious mis...

A necessary condition for justifying a policy such as subsidized low-income housing, either via tenant-based rental assistance or construction of public or private projects, is that it has a real effect on market outcomes. In this paper, we examine one aspect of the real effect of subsidized housing – does it increase the housing stock? If subsidized housing raises the quantity of occupied hous...

National housing systems increasingly combine three main types of housing: the private property sector (home ownership and rental), social public rental (public non-profit sectors) cooperative (social or civil economy). The dominant type has facilitated speculation, which in many countries become a critical source economic inequality instability. can be viable alternative with socio-spatial coh...