The global urban housing affordability crisis

S Wetzstein - Urban studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This critical commentary confronts and explores the–so far under-recognised and under-
researched–emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing …

Housing affordability: A framing, synthesis of research and policy, and future directions

G Galster, KO Lee - International Journal of Urban Sciences, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We synthesize the vast, international scholarly literature related to the growing problem of
housing affordability. As a foundation for assessing both the causes of housing affordability …

The challenges of land development for housing provision in New Zealand

WM Shahzad, A Hassan, JOB Rotimi - Journal of Housing and the Built …, 2022 - Springer
The land development process in New Zealand is criticised for causing delays in the
delivery of adequate housing. These delays upset the demand and supply equilibrium …

Are governments really interested in fixing the housing problem? Policy capture and busy work in Australia

N Gurran, P Phibbs - Housing studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article applies theories of policy capture to explain why Australian governments appear
unable to ameliorate the nation's chronic affordability pressures, drawing on discourses …

Producing affordable housing in rising markets: What works?

L Freeman, J Schuetz - Cityscape, 2017 - JSTOR
As cities across the United States have rebounded from the Great Recession, an increasing
number of households in urban areas are facing high rent burdens in order to remain in their …

Urban planning and the housing market

N Gurran, G Bramley - Palgrave Macmillan UK. DOI, 2017 - Springer
This book was written during a dynamic period of global housing policy debate and analysis.
The aftermath of the 2007/08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has prompted many countries to …

The politics of land supply and affordable housing: Auckland's Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas

L Murphy - Urban studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Increasingly, planning for housing development involves political conflict between local
government planning practices, based on urban sustainability and housing intensification …

Toward affordable cities? Critically exploring the market-based housing supply policy proposition

S Wetzstein - Housing policy debate, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article confronts the global affordable urban housing crisis by critically examining what
has arguably become the dominant policy rhetoric in advanced economies: the accelerated …

Divergence in planning for affordable housing: A comparative analysis of England and Portugal

S Alves - Progress in Planning, 2022 - Elsevier
Academic and political debates about the extent to which planning influences the volume,
type, location and affordability of new housing have not gained as much prominence in …

'Houston, we've got a problem': The political construction of a housing affordability metric in New Zealand

L Murphy - Housing Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Since the global financial crisis, housing affordability has assumed increased policy
significance in a number of countries around the world. At a national level, housing policy …