Government by Grant: The Case of Housing Renovation

Boyne, George Alexander; Millington, Andrew; Hunter, J.A.

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“…The study by Simons et al (2003) evidenced that substantial economic benefits, such as increased property value, enhanced tax base and job creation, could be returned from the state's investment in assisting housing rehabilitation. In the UK, renovation grants for the improvements of sub-standard housing were first introduced in the 1949 Housing Act (Boyne et al, 1991). The grants were matching in nature, and applicants were required to meet a percentage of housing improvement costs from their own resources.…”

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Principle of Selectivity in Housing Rehabilitation Subsidies: Case Study in Hong Kong

Yau

Lau

Ho³

2015

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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In view of tight public budget and public accountability, housing subsidies have to be selective. Different criteria are used to screen off ineligible applicants but inappropriately chosen criteria can result in inefficient resource allocation. This study investigates the subsidies offered by the public sector for rehabilitating private housing in Hong Kong. In light of the age-old problem of urban decay in the city, grants and loans have been offered to homeowners as an incentive to stimulate voluntary housing rehabilitation. Yet, whether the eligibility criteria of the subsidy schemes entail efficient resource allocation is in question. Upon the regression of the dilapidation assessment results of multiowned housing in Hong Kong on the eligibility criteria, older and unmanaged housing is found to be more derelict. Development scale and rateable value are also correlated to the dilapidation level. Policy and practical implications then follow.

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Section: Why Subsidise Housing Rehabilitation?mentioning

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Principle of Selectivity in Housing Rehabilitation Subsidies: Case Study in Hong Kong

Yau

Lau

Ho³

2015

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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“…Subsidisation is a second means of state intervention. Grants and loans have been offered to property owners for improvements (including maintenance and rehabilitation) to their properties around the world (e.g., Whalley, 1988;Boyne et al, 1991;Scanlon, 2010;Yau et al, 2013). Third is a state-led redevelopment programme that aims to replace unsafe properties with safe ones (Yau, 2011;Ho et al, 2012;Kotze, 2013).…”

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The value of building safety: A hedonic price approach

Yau¹

2015

Urbani izziv

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Theoretical and empirical studies on how building performance is valued by the property market abound in the literature. Some of them investigate changes in property prices after building renovation, but little has been done on pricing the safety performance of buildings. This article presents a study that explores whether residential properties in safer buildings command higher market values in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a good laboratory for this study because building failures can pose a serious threat in such a densely populated high-rise environment. The study measures the safety performance of a building by the weighted number of unauthorised building works (UBWs) on the external walls of the buildings.By their nature, UBWs are building works that are constructed without prior approval and consent from the government. A hedonic price model is developed to assess the market value of building safety. For the model estimation, apart from the property transaction data, the number of unauthorised appendages (i.e., UBWs attached to the building facades) in each building studied is obtained through a building survey. Based on the analysis results, several hypotheses built upon the theories of selfprotection and self-insurance are tested.

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Territorial Justice and Thatcherism

Boyne

Powell

1993

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Changes in the level of territorial justice in the construction of new dwellings during the 1980s are examined. It has been widely argued that spatial equity has declined since the 1970s, particularly in the context of the ‘north–south divide’. Thus, it may be expected that territorial justice—spatial equity at the local authority level—also declined during the Thatcher years. The general arguments and evidence on spatial equity are critically reviewed, and then the relationship between housing needs and housing provision is analysed empirically. The results indicate that there was less territorial justice in private provision, and there were conflicting trends in public provision: Territorial justice declined in the local authority sector, but increased in the housing association sector. However, in total, Thatcherism was associated with less territorial justice.

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Government by Grant: The Case of Housing Renovation

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Principle of Selectivity in Housing Rehabilitation Subsidies: Case Study in Hong Kong

Principle of Selectivity in Housing Rehabilitation Subsidies: Case Study in Hong Kong

The value of building safety: A hedonic price approach

Territorial Justice and Thatcherism

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