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Housing Allowances: Finding a Balance Between Social Justice and Market Incentives

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  • Bengt Turner
  • Marja Elsinga

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Safeguarding the affordability of, and thereby access to, housing is a key issue in housing policies across Europe. Housing allowance schemes have become a more important tool in pursuit of this aim in many countries during the past few decades. This themed issue reports on developments and dilemmas concerning housing allowance schemes in five countries.

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  • Bengt Turner & Marja Elsinga, 2005. "Housing Allowances: Finding a Balance Between Social Justice and Market Incentives," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 103-109.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:5:y:2005:i:2:p:103-109
    DOI: 10.1080/14616710500162574
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    1. Jie Chen, 2008. "The Effects of Housing Allowance Benefit Levels on Recipient Duration: Evidence from the Swedish 1997 Reform," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(2), pages 347-366, February.
    2. Matsaganis Manos & Flevotomou Maria, 2008. "A Basic Income for Housing? Simulating a Universal Housing Transfer in the Netherlands and Sweden," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 2(2), pages 1-25, January.
    3. Rik de Boer & Rosamaria Bitetti, 2014. "A Revival of the Private Rental Sector of the Housing Market?: Lessons from Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1170, OECD Publishing.
    4. Matsaganis, Manos & Flevotomou, Maria, 2007. "The impact of mortgage interest tax relief in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Greece," EUROMOD Working Papers EM2/07, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    5. Chen, Jie, 2006. "The Dynamics of Housing Allowance Claims in Sweden: A discrete-time hazard analysis," Working Paper Series 2006:1, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.

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