Over the past decade, shifts in subsidized and affordable housing policy have led to a greater role for market dynamics and individual choice on the part of program participants and their new neighbors, and a greater awareness of the importance of neighborhood on family outcomes. Given these trends, there is an opportunity for innovative prescriptive planning models to assist in the design of p...

Housing policy in Australia, at both the national and State level, is heavily reliant on the private rental sector to provide housing for low-income consumers. At the same time, there is evidence of significant market failure in the rental sector concerning access to and the supply of lower cost housing. Under a structures of housing provision framework, the institutional and structural process...

For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all hou...

Housing developments in Lagos State peri-urban settlements have contributed immensely to the alleviation of the challenges of housing deficits in central Lagos. This research aims at examining the characteristics of housing development in the peri-urban settlements of Lagos State, Nigeria. Using a case study approach, housing developments in peri-urban settlements in Ibeju-Lekki Local Governmen...

This paper provides a theory of credit-driven housing bubbles in an infinite-horizon production economy. Entrepreneurs face idiosyncratic investment tax distortions and credit constraints. Housing is an illiquid asset and also serves as collateral for borrowing. A housing bubble can form because houses command a liquidity premium. The housing bubble can provide liquidity and relax credit constr...

In this paper, it is argued that after decades of a strong dominance of the notion of housing affordability in the housing provision discourse, there is a need to shift the emphasis from housing affordability to housing accessibility. Based on a literature analysis of how the concept of housing affordability has been debated and promoted as an appropriate policy instrument our main argument is ...

P olicy makers in housing sector seeks to use instruments by which they can control volatility of housing price and prevent high disturbances of the bubble and price shocks, or at least, reduce them. In the portfolio and speculation theories, it is emphasized that speculative demand for housing is the main cause of shocks and price volatilities in the sector. The theory of housing price bu...

BACKGROUND The UK government has an ambitious goal to reduce carbon emissions from the housing stock through energy efficiency improvements. This single policy goal is a strong driver for change in the housing system, but comes with positive and negative "unintended consequences" across a broad range of outcomes for health, equity and environmental sustainability. The resulting policies are als...