Excluding exceptions: Housing non-affordability and the oppression of environmental sustainability?

Criteria for Affordable Housing Performance Measurement: A Review

“…These organizations assessed affordability by investigating cost of housing, and location efficiency by measuring transportation prices related to the place. Current planning and housing policies focus on improving houses with facilities through more extensive functional areas to strengthen aforementioned patterns [15].…”

Local perspectives on rural housing affordability and implications for the localism agenda in England

“…This basic dynamic is critical for pushing up house prices and driving a social reconfiguration of some rural areas (Hoggart and Henderson, 2005). But it is compounded by the lack of counter balances of the type that are commonplace in larger centres.…”

“…Past planning and housing policy has done little to address the social reconfiguration of these communities (Hoggart and Henderson, 2005), and the current focus on supplying homes across wider functional areas is likely to reinforce these patterns. As well as the potential for dislocation between homes and jobs (despite the claim of co-location in service centres), the erosion of social networks will have important effects on communities and on residents (Liepens, 2000;Wenger, 2001) with development often failing to respect the 'life-cycle' of communities, and breaking or stretching the link between the young and old and between family members, disrupting the support networks that are commonly a feature of traditional communities (Kasarda and Janowitz, 1974).…”

“…Essentially, whether there is an expectation that the housing resources of a village or parish will meet all local need, or whether access to affordable homes in nearby settlements is sufficient for dealing with local need; But related to this, local debates over mobility and employment: whether it is reasonable to expect people working in a village to move away but commute back for employment; How affordability contributes to the sustainability of rural areas and communities: whether the addition of more affordable housing contributes to (by facilitating more balanced communities: Hoggart and Henderson, 2005) or detracts from (by consuming rural land resources: Curry and Owen, 2009) sustainable development; and linking to this; How access to housing affects community balance and social capital e whether housing interventions respect the life-cycle of communities or whether social and demographic imbalance is the more likely outcome of housing interventions by the public and voluntary sectors and of general residential development patterns affecting communities.…”

“…Unaffordable housing is presented as a key driver of a significant social reconfiguration of many areas (Hoggart and Henderson, 2005), as 'adventitious purchasers' enter rural markets and cause a distortion of prices (Shucksmith, 1990b), reinforcing patterns of social exclusion and gentrification (Phillips, 1993(Phillips, , 2000(Phillips, , 2002. The consequences of inadequate access to rural homes are well documented and in this paper we begin by briefly reviewing some of the huge number of studies into this topic.…”