How to make Housing more Adequate and Affordable? A review of the existing literature
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2017-06-29
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
Affordable and Adequate Housing (AAH) has become a major policy concern throughout the world, especially since the negative impact of the Global Financial Crisis on tenure security, housing affordability, and the right to the city. Governments are reforming their legislation, deploying housing programs, and formulating incentive packages to make housing not only more affordable but also improve the quality of the housing unit, the project design, and the insertion into the urban fabric. There exist a large variety of options to achieve these goals, including building codes, development rights, land value capture tools, financial tools (tax incentives, subsidies, etc.), institutional reforms, etc. Therefore, AAH is a cas d´excellence of a pluri-sectoral and multi-disciplinary policy and research object. Greater affordability and higher adequacy are the result not only of qualified developers and architects but also of the complex interplay of various laws, regulations, and building practices. To date, little is known about the specific ways to achieve AAH. Discussing affordable housing in the context of the CEE invites for back-ground research on the basics of affordable housing and the role of government interventions.
The proposed conference contribution deploys a structured literature in order to assess the range of government possibilities to increase housing affordability and improve adequacy. The most cited references (cut off at 10 citations) for (i) “affordable housing”, (ii) “housing affordability”, (iii) “adequate housing” and (iv) “housing adequacy” have been searched via WebofScience©. More than 100 articles are analysed to extract the case study information, the form(s) of discussed government interventions, and stated results (if applicable). Such approach allows to highlight the diversity of government interventions but also draw comparison between countries and cities. Given the structure of the existing literature, much is known about the particular ways to influence AAH in the context of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and China. The CEE region, with exception of the UK, is largely absent in the literature sample, consequently insights could be used to generate a discussion on which forms of government interventions are applied in certain countries and which ones represent interesting additions to the currently applied tool box.
The proposed conference contribution deploys a structured literature in order to assess the range of government possibilities to increase housing affordability and improve adequacy. The most cited references (cut off at 10 citations) for (i) “affordable housing”, (ii) “housing affordability”, (iii) “adequate housing” and (iv) “housing adequacy” have been searched via WebofScience©. More than 100 articles are analysed to extract the case study information, the form(s) of discussed government interventions, and stated results (if applicable). Such approach allows to highlight the diversity of government interventions but also draw comparison between countries and cities. Given the structure of the existing literature, much is known about the particular ways to influence AAH in the context of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and China. The CEE region, with exception of the UK, is largely absent in the literature sample, consequently insights could be used to generate a discussion on which forms of government interventions are applied in certain countries and which ones represent interesting additions to the currently applied tool box.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Event Title
2nd Affordable Housing Forum
Event Location
Kielce University of Technology, Warsaw
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
254443