| Subject |
Housing -- Economic aspects.
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Housing -- Prices.
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| Descript |
1 online resource |
| Content |
text txt |
| Media |
computer c |
| Carrier |
online resource cr |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Understanding Affordability: The Economics of Housing Markets -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Crisis, What Crisis? -- Introduction -- Methods of analysis -- Developing the analytical framework -- Housing and policy -- 2 Is Housing Really Unaffordable? -- Introduction -- Affordability measurement: some background issues -- Commonly used measures of affordability -- Price to earnings or income ratios -- Housing expenditure to income ratios -- Residual income approaches -- Housing supply |
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Renter financial stress and affordability measures -- Affordability for first-time buyers -- In conclusion -- 3 What Factors Determine Changes in House Prices and Rents? -- Introduction -- Understanding national house prices -- International comparisons -- Sub-national differences -- Local variations -- The determinants of rents -- In conclusion -- 4 Influences on Household Formation and Tenure -- Introduction -- Changes in tenure and household formation -- Home ownership choices, expectations and aspirations -- Demand by existing owners and the rise of second home ownership |
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Affordability, household formation and the tenure of young households -- In conclusion -- 5 Rental Affordability -- A short history of housing support for lower-income households -- Rent controls -- Increasing the supply of public and social housing -- Income-related housing support -- Rent rebates and rent allowances -- Selected characteristics of benefit recipients -- Renting, market segmentation and interactions between the tenures -- Rents, affordability and the wider economy -- In conclusion -- 6 What Determines the Number of New Homes Built? -- Introduction |
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Industrial structure and productivity -- Long-run trends in housing construction -- Explaining the trends in private construction -- Planning and housing construction -- Increasing housebuilding and the effect on affordability -- Social housing and crowding out -- In conclusion -- 7 Housing Demand, Financial Markets and Taxation -- Introduction -- Trends in mortgage indebtedness -- Lending controls and the distributional consequences -- The Buy to Let market -- Housing taxation and subsidies: an over-investment in housing? -- In conclusion -- 8 Housing, Affordability and the Macroeconomy |
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Introduction -- Housing and household consumption expenditure -- Housing as collateral -- Mortgage default -- Household debt and credit cycles: their applicability to the UK -- On the nature of housing risk -- Additional influences on housing and macro stability: animal spirits -- In conclusion -- 9 Planning and the Assessment of Housing Need and Demand -- Introduction -- Regulatory controls over the supply of land for housing -- The challenge: post-war housing conditions -- Planning and its impact on land supply -- The growing importance of household projections -- The approach |
| Alt author |
Whitehead, Christine M. E., author.
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| ISBN |
9781529211887 (electronic bk.) |
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1529211883 (electronic bk.) |
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1529211867 |
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9781529211863 |
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9781529211894 (ePub ebook) |
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1529211891 |
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9781529211856 (pbk.) |
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1529211859 |
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9781529211856 |
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