Housing today

Moos, Markus

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“…Compared to other jurisdictions in the world, the New Zealand housing policy context is distinctive insofar as natural forces (in particular earthquakes) play an imperative role for the planning and production of housing, for building communities, and not at least for the government engagement. Other than that, New Zealand as a nation is suffering from similar problems as the rest of the industrialised world with failed regulatory systems for building standards (represented in New Zealand with the so‐called ‘leaky building’ crisis in the 1990s), housing affordability, impacts of mortgage finance deregulation, and fast changing demographics (including a steady high immigration) (Moos, 2019; Murphy, 2014). Housing policy has also been one of the top prioritised political issues in New Zealand in recent years with focus on shortage of affordable housing, as well as the failed attempt to instigate a capital gains tax.…”

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The two‐community model in the New Zealand housing policy community – A bottom‐up perspective

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Bickerton²

2021

Aust J Public Adm

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The barriers and tensions between the world of academic research and the policy world have been a recurrent theme in policy research since the 1970s and has gained renewed interest in the light of the evidence‐based policymaking movement. Although there seem to be many good arguments to not exaggerate the gulf between what has been called ‘the two communities’, we will in this article demonstrate the persistence of the model from an inductive, bottom‐up perspective. Based on an empirical and bottom‐up qualitative study with various organised interests (both inside and outside the government) involved in New Zealand housing policy, we demonstrate that although the two‐community model prevails, the actual relationship between academia and policy professionals is more complex once you begin to probe into the minds of the policy professionals and cannot be reduced to two separate tribes. The study is based on focus groups with 15 different organisations representing both central and local government organisations, housing associations, and professional associations within the policy field of housing in New Zealand.

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The two‐community model in the New Zealand housing policy community – A bottom‐up perspective

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Bickerton²

2021

Aust J Public Adm

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Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

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Sunega

2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some theorists have in response begun calling for the provision of more public housing or less housing financialisation (free market). The goal of our article is to demonstrate the housing attitudes of Czech millennials towards state interventions that are designed to address the decline in housing affordability, using a quantitative attitude survey and a series of qualitative interviews. The results of our study reveal that young Czechs are sceptical about increased public housing provision as a solution, and on the whole their views align more with the neoliberal ideas, the very ideas that are criticised by critical theorists. We show that there are contextual reasons that explain why young Czechs are not calling for radical policy change - reasons such as familialism, which facilitates the intergenerational transmission of norms, habitus, and resources within families; the legacy of socialism and society transformation; a belief that more redistribution of resources could be unfair; and stronger support for competition, individualism and right-wing politics. There is also, however, some inconsistency and uncertainty in their attitudes, especially between their general worldview and their suggestions for concrete action. This study contributes to the research in the field of youth studies that looks at young people’s strategies for dealing with the problem of decreasing housing affordability, and to the discussions surrounding diverse housing policy responses to a common global challenge.

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Housing today

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The two‐community model in the New Zealand housing policy community – A bottom‐up perspective

The two‐community model in the New Zealand housing policy community – A bottom‐up perspective

Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

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