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Housing markets and housing policies in India
Tiwari, Piyush; Rao, Jyoti - 2016
Issues of housing in India are synonymous with ignorance of housing in active government involvement at the policy and … 2011. Though India has a long history of establishing policies, programs, and institutions to cater to housing, without … housing shortage in India, there is desperate need to prepare a framework for housing by (i) including housing as a …
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Housing Markets and Housing Policies in India
Tiwari, Piyush - 2016
Issues of housing in India are synonymous with ignorance of housing in active government involvement at the policy and … 2011. Though India has a long history of establishing policies, programs, and institutions to cater to housing, without … housing shortage in India, there is desperate need to prepare a framework for housing by (i) including housing as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994206
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Gentrification through the sale of rental housing? : evidence from Amsterdam
Rouwendal, Jan; Keus, Adriaan; Dekkers, Jasper - 2018 - This version: March 1, 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of the sale of rental housing in Amsterdam on the local housing market. This increases the supply of owner-occupied housing, but can also contribute to gentrification associated with the inflow of different household groups. Earlier literature focused on the former...
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Housing policies for sustainable and inclusive cities : how national governments can deliver affordable housing and compact urban development
Moreno, Ana Isabel; Gars, Jared; Matsumoto, Tadashi; … - 2020
In a context marked by rapid urbanisation, growing housing demand and the worsening impacts of climate change, national governments play a vital role in delivering environmentally sustainable cities with adequate and affordable housing. This paper reviews national housing policy instruments from...
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Housing for India's low-income urban households: a demand perspective
Roy, Debarpita; Meera ML - 2020
Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically … examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …
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The housing market and housing policies in Japan
Kobayashi, Masahiro - 2016
Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of targeted groups and public rental houses. The Japan Housing Corporation (now the Urban Renaissance Agency) and the Government Housing Loan Corporation (now the Japan Housing...
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Gentrification and affordable housing policies
Borck, Rainald; Gohl, Niklas - 2021
We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations....
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Improving well-being through better housing policy in New Zealand
Barker, Andrew - 2019
New Zealand’s housing supply has not kept pace with rising demand, including from net immigration. Affordability has worsened, particularly for low-income renters. Government action is underway to allow new housing through initiatives such as the Urban Growth Agenda, KiwiBuild and the Housing...
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The Effect of New Market-Rate Housing Construction on the Low-Income Housing Market
Mast, Evan - 2019
Increasing supply is frequently proposed as a solution to rising housing costs. However, there is little evidence on how new market-rate construction—which is typically expensive—affects the market for lower quality housing in the short run. I begin by using address history data to identify...
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Segregation, housing and neighborhood dissimilarities : a case study for the city of Bochum
Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2021
The rising concentration of low-income households and ethnic minorities has become an important policy issue in Germany. The Ruhr Area is particularly interesting, because it is one of the largest conurbations in Europe and experienced radical structural changes in the past, which are connected...
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