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Analysis and Evaluation of Public Social Housing: tools for a Sustainable Regeneration International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Cep Abdul Baasith Wahpiyudin, Sabda Alam Muhammadan, Musa Mulyadi, Riandry Fadilah Nasution
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A New Model for Housing Finance—Public and Private Sectors Working Together to Build Affordability International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 M. Riski Audri Rahman, Rudi Sanjaya
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Real estate for social purpose: varieties of entrepreneurialism in Toronto’s non-profit housing sector International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
Non-profit housing providers have faced ongoing pressure from neoliberal restructuring policies since the late twentieth century. In reaction to funding cuts and policies requiring them to become m...
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The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Robin A. Darton
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2024)
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Temporal displacement: colonial architecture and its contestation International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tone Huse
Between 1950 and 1979 the Danish state worked to modernise Kalaallit Nunaat (a.k.a. Greenland) and concentrate the Indigenous Inuit population in a few select cities. Technologies of urban planning...
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Skyscraper settlement: The many lives of Christodora House International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Katrin B. Anacker
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2024)
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‘The rent is too damn high’ meets ‘pay the rent’: practising solidarity with the dispossessed* International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Anna Carlson, Natalie Osborne, Jonathan Sriranganathan, Mo Chan
This paper reflects on the Housing Justice in Unjust Cities Project that unfolded in so-called brisbane in 2021, in response to concerns over how the framing of demands and solutions to the present...
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Research, market, and policy implications of permanently affordable housing: lessons from Australian discussions about community land trusts International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Louise Crabtree-Hayes
As with many Anglophone nations, Australia displays a dualistic housing system dominated by private ownership and private rental, both of which demonstrate an ongoing and intensifying lack of affor...
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Reproducing displaceability in the Greek asylum accommodation system and its margins International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Eva (Evangelia) Papatzani
Since 2015–2016, in the context of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, new asylum policies altered the landscape of accommodation, housing, displacement, and (il)legalisation in Greece. This paper aims...
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Sharing risk in shared housing: rental regulations and housing justice in Australia International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone
Shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS), where people rent with non-family, is becoming more significant across many countries. However, from a housing justice lens, it is unclear whether...
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The decommodifying capacity of tenancy law: comparative analysis of tenants’ and landlords’ rights in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Gabriela Debrunner, Michael Kolocek, Arthur Schindelegger
Tenants all over the globe face the challenges of increasing rents and even forced evictions, particularly in the private urban rental sector. Affordable housing shortage and displacement have beco...
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Interplays between housing and long-term care policies: a comparison between Austria and the Czech Republic International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Paweł Łuczak
Owing to the complex links between housing and care, placing housing policy in the context of long-term care (LTC) policies is difficult; this leads to a limited number of studies on this topic. Ho...
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Oral histories of domestic heating transitions in England and Sweden: lessons on how heating transitions play out across place and time International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Aimee Ambrose, Jenny Palm, Stephen Parkes, Beth Speake
Over the last seventy years, most European countries have undergone one or more transitions in home heating provision. Moving first away from burning solid fuels and towards communal or individual ...
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Possessory stratigraphy: land title, dispossession and housing crisis International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Libby Porter, David Kelly, Priya Kunjan
The myth that Indigenous sovereignty lives in the past is central to the lore of settler colonial societies. Sustaining that myth entails significant material and symbolic work, particularly organi...
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Incremental housing as care infrastructure: transformations in low-income housing in Alto Hospicio, Chile International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Paola Jirón, Walter Imilan, Claudio Guerra, Manuel Corvalán, Luis Iturra
The discussion regarding the relationship between housing and care within the general field of housing studies has generated a broadening of the field in many ways. One of such is the reciprocal re...
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Consumption loans consuming homes: intersections of housing precarity and personal overindebtedness International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Tomáš Hoření Samec, Anja Decker, Lucie Trlifajová
Housing precarity as a condition referring to housing insecurity and unaffordability has been on the rise over the last decade across Europe and beyond. While various studies discuss the character ...
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Homeownership of young adults in Austria from a national and regional perspective since 2010 – a fading dream? International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Alexis Mundt, Karin Wagner, Stefan Angel, Wolfgang Amann
Since around 2008 there has been a sharp decline in homeownership rates in many OECD countries, particularly among young adults. This may reflect changing preferences for more flexible housing opti...
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Integrating refugees through ‘flexible housing’ policy in The Netherlands International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jolien Groot, Richard Ronald
The Dutch government recently introduced ‘flexwonen’ (flexible housing) to accommodate refugees, with policymakers encouraging housing suppliers to rent modular houses under temporary contracts. Th...
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COVID-19 and aggravated housing precarity for international students: an Australian case study International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Jin Zhu, Hal Pawson, Shenjing He, Bingqin Li
Housing experience of international students has attracted increasing academic attention in recent years. Australia’s large international student population is largely reliant on lightly-regulated ...
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Hybrid housing models for older Australians: institutional framework and policy challenges International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Piret Veeroja, Kath Hulse
Older people seeking affordable housing in the mainstream housing tenures such as home ownership, private renting and social housing face increasing difficulties in accessing and remaining in appro...
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Homelessness: A Critical Introduction International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Catherine Hastings
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and Change in a Financialised World International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Amber Howard
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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Longitudinal insights on a sites and services resettlement project. The case of Ambedkar Nagar in Chennai, India International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Maartje van Eerd, David Schelkshorn
Sites and Services (S&S) schemes were popular in resettlement in the Global South, especially between the 1970s and 1990s. Towards the end of the twentieth century they were considered unsuccessful...
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Lumbisí and the suburban (re)colonisation of Quito’s valleys: de-facto housing policies and indigenous dwelling struggles in plurinational Ecuador International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Sebastián Oviedo, Jeroen Stevens, Viviana d’Auria
Building upon ongoing engagement with leaders, advocates, and inhabitants of Lumbisí and other communal territories in Quito’s Metropolitan District, this contribution exposes the city’s suburbanis...
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Vertical incremental housing in São Paulo. The case of Minha Casa Minha Vida – Entidades International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 C. D’Ottaviano, D. M. Bossuyt
Incremental housing allows people to gradually appropriate urban space for their own use. The question remains how housing incrementalism relates to planning strategies for densification and revita...
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Stay Home: Housing and Home in the UK During the Covid-19 Pandemic International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Craig M. Gurney
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Big costs for tiny houses: exploring the transaction costs of developing tiny houses in England International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Matthew James, Sina Shahab
The housing market in England is in crisis, in terms of both availability and costs of housing. Although it is not a solution for everyone, many advocates of the tiny house movement promote develop...
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Pets and private renting: a rapid evidence review of the barriers, benefits, and challenges International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Lindsey McCarthy, Tom Simcock
Pet ownership or animal companionship is increasingly found to be beneficial to mental and physical well-being. Despite this, housing situations and tenure, such as living in a private rental, can ...
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The elusiveness of home and ontological security among homeless youth International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Kim Skobba
The concept of home is connected to various psychosocial aspects of ontological security, encompassing safety, control, privacy, continuity, and permanence. However, for youth who have experienced ...
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Imposed from above or applied for from below: comparing Dutch and Danish social mix strategies in deprived neighbourhoods International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Steven Kromhout
This paper compares social mix strategies in Denmark and the Netherlands, focusing on policy rationale, policy instruments and the role of the national government. Physical restructuring of the hou...
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Housing families and families in housing International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Laura James
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)
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What about families, housing and property wealth in a neoliberal world? International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Richard Ronald, Rowan Arundel
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)
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Rent controls - a timeless and controversial intervention International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Michael Voigtländer, Christine Whitehead
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)
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Flex-housing and the advent of the ‘spoedzoeker’ in Dutch housing policy International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Oana Druta, Mina Fatemidokhtcharook
Flex-housing is a form of (social) rental housing where the dwelling unit, the building location or the inhabitation period are temporary. Flex-housing developed as a potential stop-gap solution in...
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Rethinking housing inequality and justice in a settler colonial city International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Naama Blatman, Alistair Sisson
This paper brings the housing studies literature into conversation with scholarship on settler colonialism to consider questions of housing justice in settler colonial societies. It begins from an ...
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The role of landlords in shaping private renters’ uneven experiences of home: towards a relational approach International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Kim McKee, Jennifer Harris
Informed by the sociological analysis of Rex and Moore, our qualitative interviews with private renters across the UK highlight the myriad of ways in which landlord behaviour impacts the wellbeing ...
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Home swapping as instrument for more housing sufficiency! International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Robert Kitzmann
The current ecological challenges with an urgent necessity to reduce consumption of energy and resources call for a reconsideration of many aspects of current (western) lifestyles. Since housing is...
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Housing niches: new directions for housing and urban policy International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Laura James, Lyrian Daniel, Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker
Housing influences life chances and trajectories through many roles, differently and in relation to the socioeconomic characteristics of people and population groups. This article uses the concept ...
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Protracted displacement and housing systems in intermediary cities: the case of Syrians in Torbalı, Türkiye International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Dolf J. H. te Lintelo, Ayselin Yıldız, Meltem Ö. Gürel, Selin Siviş, Perin Çün, Sadaf Khan, Robert Mull
This article investigates the dynamics of complex housing systems within the context of large-scale protracted displacement in Turkey/Türkiye. It presents new empirical findings from a qualitative ...
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Social housing. Wellbeing and welfare International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Tom Simcock
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023)
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Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Rachael McClatchey, Katie McClymont, Emma Griffin, Laurence Carmichael
Abstract Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people intentionally live or work together in a community. This systematic review provides the first overview of the health, wellbeing and heath inequality
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Incrementalism, housing supply and city-making from below: learning from Khulna, Bangladesh International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Ashraful Alam
Abstract Incrementalism is a mode of self-help and continuing practice that is prevalent primarily in the Global South. It enables owner-builders to meet housing needs typically over an extended period of time as they can more conveniently manage the required resources. While (informal) tenure, materiality, and housing conditions have long been the focus of incremental housing scholarship, researchers
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Centring the family in housing studies: wealth transfer and property ownership, for some International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Nancy Worth
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)
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Ethnic discrimination against landlords in the rental housing market International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Shahar Sansani
Abstract In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination against landlords by analysing whether landlords who are Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) (minority) receive fewer inquiries than Jewish (non-minority) landlords for available apartments for rent. Two hundred and forty eight fictitious advertisements for apartments for rent were advertised, half with names signalling Jewish individuals and
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Housing becomes a family affair International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Rory Coulter
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2023)
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Making low-income and minority homeownership work: non-profit intermediary networks in the Chicago region International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Sowmya Balachandran
Abstract There is renewed political interest in promoting minority homeownership to reduce racial wealth gaps in the United States. In this paper, I call for a policy focus on sustained long-term home-buyer facilitation that could potentially mitigate the multi-faceted risks for low-income and minority households in buying homes, sustaining ownership, and negotiating tenure transitions. I offer an
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Increased rent misspent? How ownership matters for renovation and rent increases in rental housing in Sweden International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Mikael Mangold, Helena Bohman, Tim Johansson, Jenny von Platten
Abstract Renovations of the housing rental stock have become a political concern since they have been claimed to drive gentrification and affect tenants’ everyday lives as well as long-term housing conditions. Furthermore, new actors have entered the market, partly as a result of high supply on the international capital markets creating a flow of capital into market segments. This has led to a critique
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Housing cooperatives and the contradictions of Finnish land and housing policies International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Daisy Charlesworth, Mika Hyötyläinen
Abstract This article explores some of the key institutional challenges hindering the development of a new ‘social’ housing cooperative model in Finland. In response to rising housing unaffordability and insecurity in the private housing sector, and a retrenching social housing sector, Finland is experiencing a resurgence of practical and political interest in housing cooperatives. Based on a document
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What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest Through Workplace Ethnographies International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jenny Wood
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023)
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The lived experiences and temporality of estate regeneration International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 John Flint
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Structures of power and inequality International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Keith Jacobs
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Dissembling and displacing: the legacy of estate regeneration International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Edward G. Goetz
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Estate regeneration and its discontents: a response to reviewers International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Paul Watt
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Housing and health: a time for action International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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The impact of refinancing on housing outcomes among lower-income households International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Kristin Aarland, Carolina K. Reid
Abstract In this paper, we explore how refinancing influences subsequent housing outcomes for financially vulnerable homeowners, including overcrowding, homeownership sustainability, and residential mobility. Drawing on a unique dataset of refinance applicants to the Startlån mortgage programme in Norway, we model these housing outcomes as a function of being approved for mortgage refinancing and a
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Housing of persons with disabilities: what can be learned from the introduction of more demand-driven subsidies in Flanders? International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 S. Winters, K. Van den Broeck
Abstract Aiming to offer persons with disabilities more opportunities to live independently and more inclusively, Flanders radically revised its subsidies for care and care infrastructure for persons with disabilities. Since 2017, subsidies for care are no longer allocated to care providers, but directly to the person with disabilities as a Personal Care Budget (PCB). In 2018, up-front bricks-and-mortar
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Continuity and change: wartime housing politics in Ukraine International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Galyna Sukhomud, Vita Shnaider
Abstract The article analyses the war-imbued housing crisis in Ukraine and emergency response to it in the first four months of the full scale Russian invasion as embedded in the wider context of Ukrainian housing politics. As in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989/91, the Ukrainian housing sphere has been shaped by mass giveaway privatisation, which created a super homeownership
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Inter-sectoral policy partnerships: a case study of South Western Sydney’s Health and Housing Partnership International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Karla Jaques, Fiona Haigh, Siggi Zapart, Maria Beer, Genene Peisley, Cesar Calalang, Mark Thornell, Stephen Conaty, Patrick Harris
Abstract The evidence linking human health and housing is overwhelming. However, less focus has been on collaborative action between the sectors to improve health. Focussing on social housing adds an important equity lens to the housing and health partnership literature. Since 2009, a unique formal partnership between a State Health Service, State Social Housing Organisation and a research organisation
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Do rent controls and other tenancy regulations affect new construction? Some answers from long-run historical evidence International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
The (re-)introduction of tenancy regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or supply rationing is back on the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many global citie...
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Establishing a glossary of community-led housing International Journal of Housing Policy (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Louise Crabtree-Hayes
Recent decades have seen the re-discovery or emergence of a diverse range of housing models such as cohousing, co-operatives, community land trusts, and other forms that seek to address various per...