Speaker
Description
Housing, and more specifically providing affordable housing, is now a hot political topic with the European Union now having appointed the first ever Commissioner for Energy and Housing. The drivers of this contemporary housing crisis are manifold, and differ across Europe. In this paper, we will present key results of the ESPON House4All European Research project running from July 2023-July 2025. More precisely, we will first summarise the main policy developments at the European level, ranging from the rising attention towards housing towards the development of the new EU Housing Task Force across the Commission. We then second present key results of the indicator development for measuring housing affordability in Europe drawing on a weekly webscrapping exercise in 31 countries. Third, we revisit typologies of housing policy families based on a literature review as well as the development of a European-wide compendium of policies contributing to housing markets in the ESPON space. Finally, we discuss key drivers of housing unaffordability based on the analysis of the compendium and the housing affordability indicators combined with case study research on specific housing policies. The paper thereby aims to draw attention to the local specificities of drivers of housing unaffordability while carving out general trends contributing to the contemporary housing crisis.
References
ESPON HOUSE4ALL: Access to Affordable and Quality Housing for All People https://www.espon.eu/projects/access-affordable-and-quality-housing-all-people-house4all
| Keywords | housing affordability; housing families; housing policies; social housing; |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
