The political consequences of housing (un)affordability

IF 2.7 1区 社会学 Q2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.1177/09589287211056171
Ben W. Ansell, Asli Cansunar
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The enormous growth in house prices in Europe since the 1990s has led to increasing concerns about the affordability of housing for ordinary citizens. This article explores the relationship between housing affordability – house prices relative to incomes – and the demand for redistributive and housing policy, using data drawn from European and British social surveys and an analysis of British elections. It shows that, as unaffordability rises, citizens appear in aggregate to become less supportive of redistribution, interventionist housing policy and left-wing parties. However, this aggregate rise, driven by the predominance of homeowners in most European countries, masks a growing polarization in preferences between renters and owners in less affordable regions.
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住房负担能力的政治后果
自20世纪90年代以来,欧洲房价的大幅上涨导致人们越来越担心普通公民的住房负担能力。本文利用欧洲和英国社会调查的数据以及对英国选举的分析,探讨了住房负担能力(相对于收入的房价)与再分配和住房政策需求之间的关系。它表明,随着负担能力的提高,公民对再分配、干预性住房政策和左翼政党的支持总体上似乎越来越少。然而,在大多数欧洲国家房主占主导地位的推动下,这种总体增长掩盖了租房者和负担不起地区房主之间偏好的两极分化。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of European Social Policy publishes articles on all aspects of social policy in Europe. Papers should make a contribution to understanding and knowledge in the field, and we particularly welcome scholarly papers which integrate innovative theoretical insights and rigorous empirical analysis, as well as those which use or develop new methodological approaches. The Journal is interdisciplinary in scope and both social policy and Europe are conceptualized broadly. Articles may address multi-level policy making in the European Union and elsewhere; provide cross-national comparative studies; and include comparisons with areas outside Europe.
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