25 August 2010

Affordable Housing: Global Trends -- a presentation by Christine Whitehead

  
For a very clear and helpful review of the notion of “housing affordability” see the PowerPoint presentation by Christine Whitehead (professor of economics, LSE & Cambridge) – from a  keynote address at a recent housing conference of the Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research.  
    
·         What is meant by affordable housing?
·         Rationale for government intervention
·         Main policy approaches
·         Major factors determining policy trends
·         Major global trends:  privatisation;  targeting;  contributions towards housing from land values;  rehabilitation and redevelopment;  tenure