HOUSING POLICY IN SEVEN EUROPEAN COUN- TRIES: THE ROLE OF POLITICS IN HOUSING
Peter Boelhouwer and Harry van der Heijden
1 Introduction
This coutribution outlines the overall policy framework of seven Western European countries. The results are derived from the first part of Housing Systems in Europe: A Comparative Study of Housing Policy (Boelhouwer and Van der Heijden, 1992). An analysis of the most significant approaches to interna- tional comparative housing research, as presented in the opening article of this special issue, led to the selection of the areas and issues to be examined here (see Figure 1).
First, we reviewed the background variables that affect housing markets.
These include socio-economic, demographic, administrative, and spatial factors as well as physical planning systems.
Part II of the comparative study analyzes the housing systems themselves by
means of reviewing past housing policy, describing the organization of the housing market and identifying those involved, and sketching the housing policy envisaged for the 1990s. These housing systems interact with four external factors and determine the objective characteristics of the housing market (though not the housing policy for the 1990s). These objective characteristics include the size of the housing stock, average household size, level of new construction, tenure characteristics of households, and housing costs, for instance.
Given the diversity of subjects to be dealt with, it is not feasible to present all their features in an integral way in this paper. We therefore confine our dis- cussion to the most important general differences and similarities between the countries under review.
In Section 2, we discuss a number of factors exogenous to the housing market,
such as demographic change and socio-economic characteristics. We then go on to consider housing construction and building policy in the seven countries. But the most important part of this article elucidates the differences and similarities in the objectives of housing policies. Finally, we offer some general conclusions about the role of politics in housing.
Neth. J. of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 8 (1993) No.4.
HOUSING POLICY IN SEVEN EUROPEAN COUN- TRIES: THE ROLE OF POLITICS IN HOUSING
Peter Boelhouwer and Harry van der Heijden
1 Introduction
This coutribution outlines the overall policy framework of seven Western European countries. The results are derived from the first part of Housing Systems in Europe: A Comparative Study of Housing Policy (Boelhouwer and Van der Heijden, 1992). An analysis of the most significant approaches to interna- tional comparative housing research, as presented in the opening article of this special issue, led to the selection of the areas and issues to be examined here (see Figure 1).
First, we reviewed the background variables that affect housing markets.
These include socio-economic, demographic, administrative, and spatial factors as well as physical planning systems.
Part II of the comparative study analyzes the housing systems themselves by
means of reviewing past housing policy, describing the organization of the housing market and identifying those involved, and sketching the housing policy envisaged for the 1990s. These housing systems interact with four external factors and determine the objective characteristics of the housing market (though not the housing policy for the 1990s). These objective characteristics include the size of the housing stock, average household size, level of new construction, tenure characteristics of households, and housing costs, for instance.
Given the diversity of subjects to be dealt with, it is not feasible to present all their features in an integral way in this paper. We therefore confine our dis- cussion to the most important general differences and similarities between the countries under review.
In Section 2, we discuss a number of factors exogenous to the housing market,
such as demographic change and socio-economic characteristics. We then go on to consider housing construction and building policy in the seven countries. But the most important part of this article elucidates the differences and similarities in the objectives of housing policies. Finally, we offer some general conclusions about the role of politics in housing.
Neth. J. of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 8 (1993) No.4.
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