Housing Policies in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States: Lessons Learned

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Schöni, Olivier

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2778463

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“…Currently, this makes suburban and rural areas prime targets for new construction. Thus the British housing crisis is as much a suburban and rural problem as it is urban (Hilber and Schoni 2016). Desires to preserve and protect communities should be particularly prevalent in the suburban, small-town and rural areas where much British housing supply is both needed and feasible to build.…”

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NIMBYism as Place-Protective Action: The Politics of Housebuilding

O’Grady¹

2020

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Using British data, I argue that NIMBYism primarily arises from a desire to preserve the character of one’s area and existing ways of life, and to protect communities against rapid changes that could result from new housing developments. A wide range of characteristics that lead to these ‘place-protective’ motives, including conservativism and long-term residence in an area, strongly predict opposition to housebuilding. A conjoint experiment demonstrates that NIMBYism can be reduced by designing new developments in ways that preserve and protect existing communities, such as providing new public services alongside them. Doing so increases the coalition for housebuilding by raising the support of groups most opposed to housing, without lowering the support of others. This paper adds a comparative focus to the politics of NIMBYism, showing that outside the USA – characterised by an entrenched divide between homeowners and non-homeowners, fueled by price anxiety -- NIMBYism can take a different form.

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NIMBYism as Place-Protective Action: The Politics of Housebuilding

O’Grady¹

2020

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“…Hence, given the prevalence of the sector as a source of vulnerabilities, measures to address the distortions on the supply side should also be given attention. The diverse experience across countries with respect to housing policies and land use regulations may provide the scope for identifying practices that appear more successful at achieving objectives of affordability, sustainability and financial stability (OECD 2017, Hilber andSchöni, 2016;Kim and Park, 2016).…”

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Strengthening economic resilience

Sánchez

Serres

Gori

et al. 2017

OECD Economic Policy Papers

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“…Given the geographic constraints that Switzerland faces, i.e., lakes and mountains, the house planning system is lenient. This means that there is a strong incentive to permit development, in urban and rural areas, and there has been a large construction boom since 2009 [ Hilber , ]. It is however unclear what the economic value is of different environmental amenities and whether these could be incorporated in more targeted geographic urban planning.…”

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Valuing water resources in Switzerland using a hedonic price model

Dijk

Siber

Brouwer

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Water Resources Research

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In this paper, linear and spatial hedonic price models are applied to the housing market in Switzerland, covering all 26 cantons in the country over the period 2005-2010. Besides structural house, neighborhood and socioeconomic characteristics, we include a wide variety of new environmental characteristics related to water to examine their role in explaining variation in sales prices. These include water abundance, different types of water bodies, the recreational function of water, and water disamenity. Significant spatial autocorrelation is found in the estimated models, as well as nonlinear effects for distances to the nearest lake and large river. Significant effects are furthermore found for water abundance and the distance to large rivers, but not to small rivers. Although in both linear and spatial models water related variables explain less than 1% of the price variation, the distance to the nearest bathing site has a larger marginal contribution than many neighborhood-related distance variables. The housing market shows to differentiate between different water related resources in terms of relative contribution to house prices, which could help the housing development industry make more geographically targeted planning activities. Key Points:Most variation in house prices is explained by structural house characteristics Significant effects are found for water abundance and the distance to large rivers The distance to the nearest bathing site has the largest marginal contribution

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Housing Policies in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States: Lessons Learned

Abstract: We provide an analysis of the housing market and current housing policies in three developed countries: the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and

Cited by 18 publications

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NIMBYism as Place-Protective Action: The Politics of Housebuilding

NIMBYism as Place-Protective Action: The Politics of Housebuilding

Strengthening economic resilience

Valuing water resources in Switzerland using a hedonic price model

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