TY  - UNPB
TI  - The (in)equality of Housing Affordability within the Netherlands
AV  - public
EP  - 60
A1  - Kuijpers, Shawn
UR  - https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4004/
Y1  - 2022///
ID  - theses_frw4004
M1  - master
N2  - This paper examines the relevance of the consumption-adjusted housing affordability approach, developed by Ben-Shahar et al. (2019), to unravel potential growing(declining) (in)equalities and examine the potential elevation of housing affordability burdens among minority and underprivileged groups, with the use of the WoON datasets of 2009 up to 2018. The consumption-adjusted measure is replicated in a different context, (1) during a downward economic trend instead of an upwards trend and (2) within the Netherlands opposed to Israel in the original study. Findings suggest an overall decrease of inequalities between the more(less) burdened households within the Netherlands. However, simultaneously results suggest a trend of increasing inequalities between the lowest and highest income quantiles of the sample. Moreover, findings suggest noticeable increases of housing affordability burdens among underprivileged and minority groups. The consumption-adjusted measure provides, in line with the study of Ben-Shahar et al. (2019), an improved measure compared to the traditional price-to-income measure, which enables policymakers to mitigate affordability issues more accurately.
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