Housing benefits and minimum income schemes in Austria – an application of the residual income approach to housing affordability of welfare recipients

Mundt, Alexis

doi:10.1080/19491247.2017.1306992

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“…Revington and Townsend, [57] identified affordable rental housing locations when rapid public transit services are considered using RIM. More recently, Mundt, [58] applied a comprehensive RIM where affordability is at risk to determine household types and market segments.…”

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Methodological weaknesses in the measurement approaches and concept of housing affordability used in housing research: A qualitative study

Ezennia

Hoskara

2019

PLoS ONE

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Housing affordability (HA) is considered an important determinant of a country’s socioeconomic development and stability. However, its optimal measurement has remained a major concern worldwide. In recent decades, methodological development and researches on housing affordability measurement approaches (HAMA) have accelerated and continue to grow exponentially. Despite this intensive global development, very few attempts have been made to present the theoretical bases and track the developmental trends of these approaches. Thus, this study attempts to fill this literature gap and extend prior studies by exploring several alternatives of HAMA; with a focus on their methodological weaknesses. This paper highlights three emerging novel methodologies, which complement the relative strength of the conventional approaches. Findings suggest that the main research evidence which summarizes the weaknesses in the conventional measures is; their inability to incorporate sustainability features and over reliance on economic dimension. While the complexity of emerging methodologies, though deepen the overall understanding of multiple concerns that breed HA problems. But are less transparent, more data intensive, and their computation is very demanding, with a high tendency that their complex nature could weaken their uptake by researchers. This study raises concern over the nearly sole reliance on the conventional approaches in the reformations of policy instrument, despite their overwhelming weaknesses. It reiterates the need for reconsideration and offers new insight, but not conclusive information on better ways to conceptualize and measure HA.

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Section: Literature Search Resultsmentioning

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Methodological weaknesses in the measurement approaches and concept of housing affordability used in housing research: A qualitative study

Ezennia

Hoskara

2019

PLoS ONE

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“…Такі обов'язкові вимоги можуть включати зобов'язання виділяти певну частку нового житла як доступне житло або сплачувати певний платіж. У випадку ринків з низькою активністю забудовників та обмеженим попитом на житло, але з більшим потенціалом для подальшого розвитку, більш ефективним підходом буде підтримка будівництва житла, яке можна придбати за більш доступними цінами, через організації, що надають соціальне житло, або для сімей з невисокими або низькими доходами, а не встановлення обов'язкової невеликої частки житла [7].…”

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Global Experience in the Application of Urban Planning Activity Regulatory Tools to Increase the Offer of Affordable Housing

BILETSKYI

2022

Herald KhmNU.ES

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The article examines the global experience of using tools for regulating urban planning activities to increase the supply of affordable housing and analyzes the possibility of its adaptation to the realities of Ukraine. Taking into account the lack of affordable housing, the need for which has increased many times, or even tens of times, as a result of military operations, taking into account the number of destroyed and damaged housing stock objects, to meet the demand for residential real estate, it is proposed to use the tools of urban planning to ensure the needs of affordable housing for the victims from military armed aggression. Such instruments include making special requirements for the developer to set aside a particular share of affordable housing during the construction of new housing facilities, which can be transferred to local self-government bodies for ownership by specific households at prices lower than market prices. Or the application of such requirements in the case of particular conditions. For example, if the building density of a land plot exceeds a specific value, then such a building must have at least 20% of social housing (by area or number of residential units). Two factors are essential in this direction: urban planning and housing policy. The research conducted through an expert survey confirmed that under modern conditions, the most significant influence on market development and demand for real estate has such factors as population incomes, interest rates on loans, and real estate prices as well as under martial law conditions came to the fore regional factors such as distance from the border, etc. With the help of data analysis, it was established that the availability of housing for people with an average or low-income level is carried out through the mechanisms of its acquisition to improve living conditions. This characteristic is part of the country’s economic system. Previously, housing availability was ensured at the state’s expense, but with the transition to a market economy and the war, the ways of acquiring housing expanded significantly but became inaccessible to most citizens. Today, housing affordability depends on the population’s ability to pay and housing prices on the market.

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“…This has led to concerns about deteriorating housing affordability. While other housing indicators, such as overcrowding, have improved over the same period, housing-cost-overburden rates have increased slowly but continuously since 2005 (Mundt 2017).…”

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“…In new social housing construction, increased construction costs and land scarcity contribute to high cost-rents leading to more need for demand-side subsidies such as housing benefits and larger capital contributions by future tenants (Mundt 2017). Capital contributions are a deposit charged from future tenants and used to co-finance new social housing construction.…”

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Privileged but Challenged: The State of Social Housing in Austria in 2018

Mundt

2018

CHA

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On the one hand, Austrian social housing is stronger than ever due to the growing importance that social rental apartments play on the housing market. The volume, price, and quality standards of this housing are competitive with what is found in other sectors of the market and the social housing sector also helped to mitigate the effects of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). On the other hand, pressure on the rental housing market has increased because demand for cheap housing has grown more than supply. The social housing sector thus has to address the vital question of how to increase targeting on low-income households and vulnerable groups and at the same time to maintain social mix and public support. In this paper I argue that the sector, in spite of its strong position, is facing some common European challenges that will redefine its role in the future. Yet, the social housing sector is overburdened if expected to solve many problems that have arisen due to non-housing issues.

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Housing benefits and minimum income schemes in Austria – an application of the residual income approach to housing affordability of welfare recipients

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Methodological weaknesses in the measurement approaches and concept of housing affordability used in housing research: A qualitative study

Methodological weaknesses in the measurement approaches and concept of housing affordability used in housing research: A qualitative study

Global Experience in the Application of Urban Planning Activity Regulatory Tools to Increase the Offer of Affordable Housing

Privileged but Challenged: The State of Social Housing in Austria in 2018

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