Speakers
Description
Over the last decade the affordability of housing has become a major policy issue and increasingly a concern for governments as house prices have risen dramatically with respect to wages. Whilst land is limited in supply and fixed in space, the quantity of credit and investment has expanded over time. The high liquidity has driven property prices at a much faster rate than rises in incomes, making housing increasingly unaffordable for a large proportion of the population. In various metropolitan contexts, the growing awareness of housing’s multifaceted impact on social, economic and environmental systems has led to its recognition as a key governance issue to foster resilience. Based on evidence from case studies and fed from the activities of ARL working group, this contribution is based upon a dialogue between the authors that aims at contributing to the debate of:
• whether there is effective metropolitan-scale governance on this policy issue
• how legal and financial instruments can help to foster effective planning policies and practices for affordable housing.
• How solutions and tools adopted are inspired by a proactive conceptualisation of resilience and how the metropolitan dimension is key to this approach
| Keywords | affordable housing; planning policies; metropolitan resilience |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
