Grounding Urban Governance on Housing Affordability: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Analysis. Insights from Vienna

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Partecipazione e Conflitto Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI:10.1285/I20356609V14I2P848

Maurizio Peverini

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Abstract

Growing and attractive cities, such as Vienna, globally face housing crises. Urban land rent (inflated by the huge housing demand in attractive areas and the consequent housing shortage) is transferred to housing prices and results in increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible cities. Housing affordability is a critical factor for enjoying the use value of housing and the broader set of values associated with cities. To assure urban agglomerations' inclusiveness and spatial justice, urban governance should be "grounded" on affordability by redistributing land rent and keeping housing prices hooked on income levels. However, the relation between urban land rent and housing affordability is rarely connected in Housing studies. Furthermore, it is often neglected by urban governors, generally competing to increase housing prices and attract investments. This article contributes to fill this policy/research gap and offers new conceptual avenues for the analysis of urban housing affordability governance. A theoretical basis and a coherent analytical framework for policy analysis are empirically applied in a case study of the city of Vienna, focusing on affordable rental housing. Based on peculiarities—of history, political stability, and a solid welfare system—the Viennese case offers relevant insights for disentangling the complex network of policies and institutions that ground urban growth on affordability.

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基于住房负担能力的城市治理:政策分析的概念框架。来自维也纳的见解

在全球范围内，像维也纳这样不断发展和吸引人的城市都面临着住房危机。城市土地租金(由于吸引人的地区的巨大住房需求和随之而来的住房短缺而膨胀)转移到房价上，导致城市越来越难以负担和难以进入。住房负担能力是享受住房使用价值和与城市相关的更广泛价值的关键因素。为了确保城市群的包容性和空间公正，城市治理应该“基于”可负担性，通过重新分配土地租金和保持房价与收入水平挂钩。然而，在住房研究中，很少将城市土地租金与住房负担能力之间的关系联系起来。此外，它经常被城市管理者忽视，他们通常竞相提高房价和吸引投资。本文有助于填补这一政策/研究空白，并为分析城市住房负担能力治理提供新的概念途径。政策分析的理论基础和连贯的分析框架在维也纳市的案例研究中得到了实证应用，重点是负担得起的租赁住房。基于历史、政治稳定和坚实的福利制度的特殊性，维也纳的案例为解开复杂的政策和制度网络提供了相关的见解，这些政策和制度将城市增长的基础建立在可负担性上。

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Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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2.00

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.