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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
COMPARATIVE URBANIZATION

Volume 5

THE NEW HOUSING SHORTAGE

THE NEW HOUSING SHORTAGE

Housing Affordability in Europe and the USA

Edited by
GRAHAM HALLETT

First published in 1993 by Routledge

This edition first published in 2021

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1993 Graham Hallett

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The New Housing Shortage

Housing Affordability in Europe and the USA

Edited by
Graham Hallett

First published 1993

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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1993 Graham Hallett

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Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Graham Haiku

2 The new housing shortage: the problem of housing affordability in the United States

E. Jay Howenstine

The setting

The problem

The causes of the problem

Methods of solving the problem

The dismantlement of national housing policy; the Reagan era

Rebuilding national housing policy

The National Affordable Housing Act of 1990

Notes

Appendix 1: Housing units subsidized, by tenure and programme 1975-89; Notes

Appendix 2: Federal housing subsidies by tenure and type of programme 1975-91; Notes

References

3 Housing tenure and affordability: the British disease

Peter Malpass

Housing tenure and the housing problem

The three phases of government policy

The affordability crisis

Conclusions

References

4 Housing affordability in the Federal Republic of Germany

Rudi Ulbrich and Uwe Wullkopf

The post-war German housing miracle

The pre-programmed decline of social housing

The emergence of a new housing shortage

The underlying causes of the new housing shortage

Rebuilding a national housing policy

References

5 Housing problems in the former German Democratic Republic and the New German States

Otto Dienemann

The initial situation and the political background

What was achieved?

The causes of the shortcomings

How to solve the current problems

The problems of transition

Postscript, December 1991

6 Housing affordability in France

Jean-Pierre Schaefer

Housing conditions in general

The problems that remain

The causes of these problems

The evolution of housing policy

The 1989 Law for implementing a right to housing

Conclusions and prospects

References

7 Low income and housing in the Dutch welfare state

Jan van Weesep and Ronald van Kempen

Introduction

Main characteristics of Dutch society

The state, the housing market and low incomes

The housing market position of the urban poor

The housing future for low-income households

References

8 The new housing shortage: an international review

Graham Hallen

A continuing improvement in housing conditions?

The new housing shortage

The causes of homelessness

The causes of affordability problems

Ways of resolving the new housing shortage

Guidelines on housing affordability

The role of owner-occupation in low-income housing

The role of private tenancy in low-income housing

The non-profit housing enterprise

The countries compared

Conclusions

References

3.1 Housing tenure in Great Britain 196989

3.2 Permanent dwellings completed in the United Kingdom 196689

4.1 Dwellings completed 196089, by sponsors

4.2 Housing conditions by income group 1978 and 1985/7

4.3 Average rents 197891

4.4 Causes of rent rises 197888

4.5 Rent as a percentage of income by income groups

4.6 Recipients of the housing allowance

4.7 The distribution of housing subsidies between households of the top and bottom income quintiles

6.1 Rent/income ratios 1988

6.2 No. of dwellings and average household size 190090

6.3 Housing stock 196290

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