Because housing affordability has proven to be an ongoing challenge in the United States, there is renewed interest in European-style social housing. While the German, Swiss…
This paper is the second part of a study on the Dutch social housing system. The first paper traced the history of the system. Nonprofit housing associations (called…
Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. These social units, which in 2022 rented for an average of €560 per month (or about $600),…
Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. While the definition of “social housing” has changed over the last 120 years, as of 2022 it…
This working paper compares rental housing in 12 countries in Europe and North America, using individual records from household surveys. Differences in housing…
The Joint Center’s biennial America’s Rental Housing reports examine the rental housing market in the US and have documented the increasing cost burdens faced by…
The recent Joint Center report, America’s Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs, reiterates the extent of severe cost burdens faced by renters, especially those…
J. Michael Collins, David Crowe, Michael Carliner
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October 5, 2001
Much of homeownership research and policy focuses on financial or information barriers that might frustrate low-income renter households from buying a home. Given existing…