NDLI: Impacts of contrasting housing policies on low-income households in Australia and the Netherlands

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Author	Milligan, Vivienne R. Dieleman, Frans M. Kempen, Ronald
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	This paper aims to contribute to the debate in comparative housing studies about the significance of national housing policies by considering what can be learnt from analysing the consequences of different policy paths. In particular, the paper looks at the evidence of the long-run impacts of different housing strategies adopted to assist lower-income households in Australia and the Netherlands, using housing affordability as a measure of their impact. Australia is an example of a country that has promoted mass home ownership across the income distribution supplemented by a very small public housing system. In contrast, the Netherlands has relied more on a large and diversified social housing sector. The comparative analysis shows that there are many similarities in the patterns of affordability among low-income households in the two countries despite the use of different policy means. In the past, both countries had good success providing secure and affordable housing for poorer households. Now, lower-income households are experiencing greater affordability problems that are linked to societal changes and the retrenchment of government housing assistance in both cases. However, the study also finds that affordability problems among lower-income households are worse in Australia because of the greater reliance on private housing in that country.
Starting Page	237
Ending Page	255
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15664910
Journal	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737772
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-08-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative housing studies Housing affordability Low-income households National housing policy Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Human Geography Housing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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