Strategic Action for Affordable Housing: How Advocacy Organizations Accomplish Policy Change

Economic and Statistical Models for Affordable Housing Policy Design

Prescriptive planning models for affordable and subsidized housing policy design that have a local focus and which are intended to reflect aspects of current and/or best practices require detailed estimates of various structural parameters. These estimates should ideally reflect observations of actual housing units, households and development projects. We examine here three classes of structura...

Affordable Housing, Land Tenure, and Urban Policy: The Matrix Revealed

This Article describes the policies advanced by housing programs and shows where tension between the policies and programs exists. This Articles also attempts to organize and clarify the relationships among various goals of subsidized housing policy and the elements of programs adopted to meet them. The Article then proceeds by detailing eight possible objectives of subsidized housing and consi...

Incentivemechanism design ofaccess management policy in affordable housing and analysis

Affordable housing is of much importance for Chinese subsidized housing. However, the implementation of the affordable housing policy is facing several problems. One crucial problem is that the current policy cannot effectively identify high-income applicants who are not qualified to apply for affordable housing. Based on the theory of incentive mechanism design, this paper reveals that the cur...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

Constant Quality Rent Indexes for Affordable Housing

This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock. In each of the five contrasting metropolitan areas, rent inflation since the late 1980s is found to have varied by market segment. In some metro areas, rental prices have risen most rapidly in the bottom third of the rent distribution, ...