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Heijden, Harry van der; Haffner, Marietta

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“…In recent years, the private rented sector (hereafter termed PRS) in many countries have witnessed substantial growth in terms of its proportion among all tenure types (Byrne & McArdle, 2020;Crook & Kemp, 2014;Morris, et al, 2017). The PRS accommodates not only the low-income group but also those who cannot afford or do not want to buy a home, as well as young people or newcomers to the city (Van Der Heijden & Haffner, 2000;. However, private tenants often have poor living experience due to problems such as poor dwelling conditions , overcrowding (Nasreen & Ruming, 2019), affordability crisis (Liu, et al, 2020), perceptions of insecurity (Morris, et al, 2017), and feelings of anxiety and shame .…”

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Towards a Better-Functioning Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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In recent years, the Private Rented Sector (PRS) has witnessed rapid growth across numerous jurisdictions, with Chinese metropolises notably standing out. Throughout the history of housing policy development in China, the PRS has been largely disregarded. It was not until 2015 that the government proposed the idea of “accelerating the development of the rental housing market” to achieve a “balanced development between home renting and purchasing”. However, the PRS in China is still in its immature stage, as evidenced by unstable rents and tenure, insufficient tenant rights, low levels of tenant satisfaction, minimal institutional landlord participation, and a lack of motivation among local governments to develop the PRS. This dissertation aims to gain an indepth understanding of the PRS in metropolitan China and explore how to improve its functioning using Shenzhen as a case study. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected to examine the determinants of tenants’ intention to rent and residential satisfaction, the relationship between residential environment, social exclusion, and life satisfaction, the impact of landlords' management practices on tenants' housing experiences, and main challenges and solutions for a well-developed PRS. The results suggest that the PRS in Shenzhen is highly heterogeneous and comprised of several distinct sub-sectors. Housing policies should be tailored to each subsector's unique characteristics. The dissertation also reveals that the PRS is interconnected with other institutions such as the hukou system and education system. Therefore, a well-functioning PRS depends on the simultaneous reform of other sectors and institutions.

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Towards a Better-Functioning Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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The Stockholm Housing Market

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Wilhelmsson

European Metropolitan Housing Markets

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The “squeezed middle” on the Dutch housing market: how and where is it to be found?

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Janssen-Jansen

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New regulations on the allocation of social housing recently came into effect in the Netherlands as a result of a state-support complaint filed by institutional investors to the European Commission. At least 90 % of vacant social housing dwellings has to be allocated to households with a yearly income of less than €34,000. This has caused concerns about the availability of housing among (lower-)middle-income households. They can no longer access social housing, and due to the prevalence of social housing and the fiscal favoring of owner-occupied housing, the affordable private rented sector is almost absent in the Netherlands. Thus, currently they rely on the owner-occupied housing market with their restricted financial budgets and might lose out. This study substantiates this assumed ''squeezed middle'' problem with empirical data for housing regions in the Netherlands. The adopted spatial analysis method shows to what extent and where lower-middle-income households have access to homeownership in the Netherlands, and how the ''squeezed middle'' varies among the Dutch regional housing markets. The spatial analysis indicates that in some regions, there indeed is a group of middle-income households that is ''squeezed.'' Yet, the study also reveals that the problem might be more qualitative than quantitative in nature: households may not be able or willing to trade-off location for access to more affordable or more appropriate housing.

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Towards a Better-Functioning Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China

Towards a Better-Functioning Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China

The Stockholm Housing Market

The “squeezed middle” on the Dutch housing market: how and where is it to be found?

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