The role of municipalities in promoting housing affordability: an analysis of three Finnish cities

Sutela, Elina

doi:10.1080/17535069.2023.2206793

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“…Housing affordability requires not only an operational capacity and financial liberty but also a capability to trade off sociopolitical and functional objectives, making it highly sensitive to policies (Clapham, 2019). Therefore, the subject demands a greater local government role, continuous study of circumstantial challenges and exploring alternative strategies (Sutela, 2023). This paper investigates operational and governance barriers for Canadian Municipalities to deal with housing affordability challenges for their communities.…”

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Affordable Housing – Challenges and Constraints for Local Governance in Canada

Rauf,

Frayne

2023

JSD

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Housing and sustainable development is interdisciplinary research that requires cross functional knowledge-sharing to address operational and policy issues—limitations in understanding housing dynamics and policy design and implementation lead to unintended negative consequences. Policy development for affordable housing requires better conceptual understanding, determination of normative objectives and operational constraints, and the effectiveness of governance structure. This paper investigates operational and governance barriers to housing affordability in the Canadian context. The article adopted a key informant interview method to analyze qualitative feedback from technical and administrative experts from the municipalities across Canada. The study helped to understand the contextual challenges in housing affordability in Canadian municipalities. The study confirms that the weaknesses in governance structure, distribution of responsibilities, and allocation of resources limit municipalities' capacity to deal with housing affordability. Pro-growth objectives will not solve housing affordability challenges. It is important to adopt human centered and contextually relevant housing policies. To overcome operational constraints, municipalities need more significant provincial and federal financial and constitutional assistance to meet capacity challenges and to guide a unified approach to meet sustainability targets.

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Affordable Housing – Challenges and Constraints for Local Governance in Canada

Rauf,

Frayne

2023

JSD

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Housing the poor? Accessibility and exclusion in the local housing systems of Vienna and Milan

Wolfgring,

Peverini

2024

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Despite featuring very different housing systems, both in Vienna and Milan a growing number of people struggle to access affordable and decent housing. Even though social housing policies are in place in both contexts, for many the unregulated and often unaffordable private housing market is the only option. Building upon Antonio Tosi’s work, we centre our analysis on the poor and compare how two very different local housing systems create the conditions for their inclusion or exclusion. Through a comparative analysis of the Viennese and Milanese local housing regimes and adopting a mixed methodology, we discuss how both generate conditions of exclusion and who the ones excluded are, which local policies address the poor and how appropriate these are for mitigating housing exclusion. Finally, we indicate some directions for policies aimed at tackling the intersections of poverty and housing exclusion, advocating for a maximization of the ‘sociality’ of housing policies, involving a shift in prioritisation from the middle classes to the most vulnerable groups and the loosening of certain formal access requirements to housing or welfare services that constitute barriers to these groups, where possible.

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The governance of affordable housing through public-private partnerships: Critical entanglements

Canelas,

Alves

2024

Land Use Policy

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The role of municipalities in promoting housing affordability: an analysis of three Finnish cities

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Affordable Housing – Challenges and Constraints for Local Governance in Canada

Affordable Housing – Challenges and Constraints for Local Governance in Canada

Housing the poor? Accessibility and exclusion in the local housing systems of Vienna and Milan

The governance of affordable housing through public-private partnerships: Critical entanglements

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