Housing CostHousing AllowanceRent ControlRent IncreaseThis paper reviews the evolution of the French private rented housing sector. It traces post-war policy developments, putting the specific tenure in a wide housing market context. The paper reviews France's intricate system of personal and property...
In France, housing is the main item of expenditure in the family budget (accounting for an average of 29 percent), and many families would be unable to find decent housing without some help from the State. For a long time, the main problem was the housing shortage but in recent years ...
The goal of this essay is to examine the implementation of housing rights in France. Legislation adopted in March 2007 opened the possibility of an enforceable right, which can be asserted before a court. However, it also created new inequalities before the law. Indeed, the conditions required ...
3 OOH cost inflation and euro area policy: a primer The ECB's price stability objective is 2% inflation, measured as the year-on-year percentage change in the HICP price index over the medium term. While rents paid for housing are a part of the consumer basket, most owner-occupier ...
Additionally, it is reported that retrofitting low income housing may increase the GDP in the UK by 0.6% by 2030 (Washan et al., 2014). Finally, it is estimated that the cost benefit ratio of economic activities relating to the retrofitting of low income housing is very high, at close ...
The widening gap between personal disposable income and the cost of housing is strongly linked to poor health, preventable deaths, and suicide, finds an international study of developed countries accepted for publication in theJournal of Epidemiology & Community Health. ...
from the formulations of the growth of Spanish cities to accommodate the new working class—with paradigmatic proposals such as Ildefons Cerdà’s Eixample in Barcelona or Arturo Soria’s Linear City in Madrid—through the hygienist rationalisms of low-cost houses, cooperatives, colonies, “poblados...
Municipalities in Namibia are primarily in charge of maintaining the infrastructure in towns and cities and delivering services. The City of Windhoek operates on a cost-recovery basis, and it does not receive ongoing funding for acquiring property, supplying bulk services, or constructing specific infr...
As the demand for affordable housing grows and the availability of low-cost properties diminishes, stakeholders in housing must become more innovative in their approach tosocial housing development. One opportunity lies in restoring and repurposing abandoned buildings. While building new houses remains the...
In France, housing is the main item of expenditure in the family budget ( accounting for an average of 29 percent), and many families would be unable to find decent housing without help from the State. For a long time, the main problem was the housing shortage but in recent years the ...