Demand subsidies for low-income households

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Title: Demand subsidies for low-income households
Author(s): Hulse, K.
Abstract: Governments view housing as a merit good and provide a range of financial subsidies to improve housing outcomes for households. Since the mid-1980s, there has been an increasing emphasis on demand subsidies to households rather than supply subsidies to financiers, developers, or managers of housing. Demand subsidies are widely used in Australasia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia and assist households to buy or rent their housing. Their design and implementation reflects institutional arrangements for tax and income support systems as well as housing systems.
Publication type: Book chapter
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: International encyclopedia of housing and home / Susan J. Smith, Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony, and Susan Wacher (eds.), pp. 307-313
Publication year: 2012
Keyword(s): Demand subsidies; Government; Housing; Housing affordability; Low-income households
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080471716, 0080471714
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00418-5
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