Reference Housing Costs for Adequate Dwellings in Ten European Capitals

Title:

Reference Housing Costs for Adequate Dwellings in Ten European Capitals

Creator:

Bosch, Karel Van den, Goedemé, Tim, Schuerman, Nathalie, and Storms, Bérénice

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ca9cf3de-1e4a-4b22-a85b-b52d5faf0d80
uuid:ca9cf3de-1e4a-4b22-a85b-b52d5faf0d80

Subject:

Housing costs, Reference budgets, and EU-SILC

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Providing adequate housing at affordable prices remains a challenge for all welfare states. As part of a pilot project for developing a common methodology for reference budgets in the European Union, reference rents and other housing costs (energy, taxes, maintenance) corresponding to adequate dwellings for four hypothetical households living in nine capital regions of the EU were estimated. In this paper, we discuss the approach that we have taken. Quality criteria for adequate housing were derived from EU indicators of housing deprivation, and the recent UK Housing Standards Review. We used data from the Study of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) of 2012. Unsurprisingly, the estimates of reference rents vary strongly across capitals, reflecting cross-national differences in the level of the average rent. By contrast, other housing costs, which mainly reflect energy costs, vary much less.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Critical Housing Analysis | 2016 Volume:3 | Number:1

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