Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal

Ensuring the provision of affordable housing is an important and challenging role of planning practice, both at macro and micro level. The adequacy of housing supply to the population’s (present and future) needs, preferences and income is particularly relevant and complex in territories where stand...

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Main Author: MARQUES JOÃO Lourenço
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Language:English
Published: Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin)
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description Ensuring the provision of affordable housing is an important and challenging role of planning practice, both at macro and micro level. The adequacy of housing supply to the population’s (present and future) needs, preferences and income is particularly relevant and complex in territories where standard housing market mechanisms typically fail. In places, shaped by socio-economic vulnerabilities (such as high proportions of population with low income levels) and by severe demographic decline processes (associated with high levels of vacancy houses), the mismatch between the market drivers (e.g. demand and supply) and the efficient market conditions to produce affordable and good solutions for all population is a crucial issue in the context of public policy. Thus, a spatial composite indicator of housing accessibility, considered in this article as a combination of need and affordability, is developed. More specifically, the former is assessed by the balance between housing stock (supply) and number of households (demand), while the latter is captured by the equilibrium between housing price (supply) and household’s income conditions (demand).
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spelling doaj.art-00b590fcfb4c444b95431ce4705acb122024-04-04T07:54:26ZengVarazdin Development and Entrepreneurship AgencyJournal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin)1849-33272020-09-0107020113Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in PortugalMARQUES JOÃO Lourenço0Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences (DCSPT), Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), University of Aveiro (PORTUGAL)Ensuring the provision of affordable housing is an important and challenging role of planning practice, both at macro and micro level. The adequacy of housing supply to the population’s (present and future) needs, preferences and income is particularly relevant and complex in territories where standard housing market mechanisms typically fail. In places, shaped by socio-economic vulnerabilities (such as high proportions of population with low income levels) and by severe demographic decline processes (associated with high levels of vacancy houses), the mismatch between the market drivers (e.g. demand and supply) and the efficient market conditions to produce affordable and good solutions for all population is a crucial issue in the context of public policy. Thus, a spatial composite indicator of housing accessibility, considered in this article as a combination of need and affordability, is developed. More specifically, the former is assessed by the balance between housing stock (supply) and number of households (demand), while the latter is captured by the equilibrium between housing price (supply) and household’s income conditions (demand).https://www.jesd-online.com/dokumenti/upload/separated/EJOURNAL_JESD_Vol.7_N.2_2020_1.pdfhousing needshousing affordabilityspatial econometric analysisdemographyincome
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Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
Journal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin)
housing needs
housing affordability
spatial econometric analysis
demography
income
title Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
title_full Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
title_fullStr Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
title_short Spatial Patterns of Affordable Housing Needs in Portugal
title_sort spatial patterns of affordable housing needs in portugal
topic housing needs
housing affordability
spatial econometric analysis
demography
income
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