Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2105193
Edward S W Ti
Abstract Land reform in post-independent Singapore was led by compulsory purchase predominantly in the 1960s–70s and resulted in numerous kampungs or villages being demolished. With efficient assembly of land, high-rise public flats were built to accommodate the country’s burgeoning population. Today, 95 per cent of residents reside in high-rise dwellings and Singapore is the 3rd most densely populated country globally. Remarkably, planning regulations protect a housing typology known as ‘good class bungalows’ (GCBs). Though housing less than 0.2 per cent of Singapore households, GCBs collectively take up 7 per cent of the available land for housing. Numbering less than three thousand, GCBs have statutorily required large minimum lot sizes and are situated in Singapore’s choiciest residential enclaves. Development of GCB land to more intensive use is strictly prohibited. In this article, I examine the legal policies and socioeconomic rationale for maintaining this uniquely Singaporean institution, concluding that there are indeed cogent justifications for its existence.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541
R. Arundel, Ang Li, E. Baker, R. Bentley
{"title":"Housing unaffordability and mental health: dynamics across age and tenure","authors":"R. Arundel, Ang Li, E. Baker, R. Bentley","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81509718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2097853
S. Alidoust
{"title":"Older people, house-sitting and ethics of care","authors":"S. Alidoust","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2097853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2097853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85623601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2106540
Mădălina Mezaroş, Antoine Paccoud
{"title":"Accelerating housing inequality: property investors and the changing structure of property ownership in Luxembourg","authors":"Mădălina Mezaroş, Antoine Paccoud","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2106540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2106540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72422590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2100614
Francesco Maniglio, Fernando Casado
{"title":"The right to housing under the new Latin American constitutionalism: progresses and challenges in the Ecuadorian case study","authors":"Francesco Maniglio, Fernando Casado","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2100614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2100614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89664448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089082
Nikos Kourachanis
{"title":"Housing as a base for welfare in Greece: the staircase of transition and Housing First schemes","authors":"Nikos Kourachanis","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2089082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75328825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2097852
Raven Simonds, Natasha B. Khade, J. Young
{"title":"Does paid transitional housing impact reentry outcomes during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders? Evidence from a natural experiment within an RCT","authors":"Raven Simonds, Natasha B. Khade, J. Young","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2097852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2097852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83253916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089079
A. Marsh, K. Gibb, A. Soaita
In the context of chronic problems with high housing costs, rent regulation has returned to the forefront of policy debate in several countries. This paper addresses three distinct questions related to rent regulation and the role of evidence. First, what are the drivers of policy change on rent regulation and what role does evidence play in shaping change? Second, what is the nature of the evidence base on rent regulation and the key messages that emerge from it? Third, how is this evidence base transmitted into policy debate? We take the example of the recent UK policy debate to examine this issue. The paper discusses the case of current policy development in Scotland to reflect upon policy drivers and the role of evidence. The paper combines insights from a recent evidence review and a decade-long policy ethnography. Not only does research indicate that evidence has played a limited role as a driver for policy change on rent regulation but the nature of the evidence base is such that there are limits on the guidance it can offer and the extent to which policy can in principle be rooted in evidence. The case of Scotland illustrates the forces at play in shaping rent regulation policy.
{"title":"Rent regulation: unpacking the debates","authors":"A. Marsh, K. Gibb, A. Soaita","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2089079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089079","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of chronic problems with high housing costs, rent regulation has returned to the forefront of policy debate in several countries. This paper addresses three distinct questions related to rent regulation and the role of evidence. First, what are the drivers of policy change on rent regulation and what role does evidence play in shaping change? Second, what is the nature of the evidence base on rent regulation and the key messages that emerge from it? Third, how is this evidence base transmitted into policy debate? We take the example of the recent UK policy debate to examine this issue. The paper discusses the case of current policy development in Scotland to reflect upon policy drivers and the role of evidence. The paper combines insights from a recent evidence review and a decade-long policy ethnography. Not only does research indicate that evidence has played a limited role as a driver for policy change on rent regulation but the nature of the evidence base is such that there are limits on the guidance it can offer and the extent to which policy can in principle be rooted in evidence. The case of Scotland illustrates the forces at play in shaping rent regulation policy.","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82785424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-20DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089080
M. Pareja-Eastaway, Teresa Sánchez-Martínez
{"title":"Private rented market in Spain: can regulation solve the problem?","authors":"M. Pareja-Eastaway, Teresa Sánchez-Martínez","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2089080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87600947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089083
S. Parkinson, G. Wood, I. Campbell
{"title":"Labour and housing market precarity: What is the impact of time-related underemployment?","authors":"S. Parkinson, G. Wood, I. Campbell","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2089083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89715069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}