Housing-concerns and the associated research objectives/ research questions: on housing market

 

Housing-concerns and the associated research objectives/ research questions: on housing market

Article 1: Colin Jones & Mike Coombes (2013) An Assessment of Tenure-Specific Housing Market Areas for Housing Planning, Housing Studies, 28:7, 993-1011, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.783201.

 Housing concerns

“Over the last decade, market responsive planning policy has ostensibly been introduced, but the change has proved difficult to implement. A major hurdle has been the construction of meaningful HMAs with both a degree of arbitrariness and a lack of consistency between planning authorities in different parts of the country. Recent research has resolved these problems by constructing a comprehensive tiered HMA geography for the whole of England based on clear theoretical principles (Jones et al., 2010). However, a deeper perspective on local housing markets needs to take account of the tenure structures that create cleavages in the housing system”;

 Research objectives/ research questions

“The purpose of this study is to examine the potential of tenure-specific local housing market areas (HMAs) in England as an aid to local housing policy and planning. Besides this very specific objective, the paper provides insights into the operation of the housing system through residential migration patterns. While the paper is set within a strong conceptual framework, it encompasses a behavioural analysis that can inform and resolve some of the tensions between different disciplinary perspectives (see Marsh & Gibb, 2011) It also contributes to the continuing debates about the relationships between residential land markets, tenure and the role of planning/intervention”;

 

 

Article 2: Brendan Nevin (2010): Housing Market Renewal in Liverpool: Locating the Gentrification Debate in History, Context and Evidence, Housing Studies, 25:5, 715-733.

Housing concerns

“The development of the Housing Market Renewal programme followed a national debate about the causes of the abandonment of low value multi-tenure neighbourhoods in the Midlands and North of England during the 1990s. This debate was informed by national and regional studies which highlighted a significant number of neighbourhoods and dwellings affected by high residential turnover, low and falling prices and increasing vacancies (DETR, 2000; Nevin et al., 2001b). Cities such as Liverpool, with its historically weak economy, large-scale population loss and low value housing stock, were particularly negatively affected by housing market change at this time, with some neighbourhoods experiencing a persistent vacancy level of 30 per cent or more (Lee & Nevin, 2003)”;

 

“The introduction of the Housing Market Renewal programme, following the development of the Hope VI programme in the United States and a Mixed Income Communities Pilot programme in England, has led to an increase in interest by gentrification researchers in the outcomes of publicly funded housing renewal schemes. This interest has been stimulated by an emerging body of research which has questioned both the philosophy and aims and objectives of mixed income communities schemes, and the extent to which the outcomes of ‘renewal’ have led to a deterioration in the housing circumstances of the poorest (see, for example, DeFillipis & Fraser, 2008)”;

Research objectives/ research questions

“This paper places the Housing Market Renewal programme in Liverpool in its historical context, highlighting a mismatch between the supply and demand for housing which has existed for four decades. This disequilibrium produced an environment where successive waves of neighbourhood abandonment occurred from the late 1970s despite significant public policy interventions”;

“This paper takes issue with the approach to gentrification research advocated by Slater and Allen by highlighting how an understanding of the historical development of housing policy and the local housing market is critical to developing a meaningful understanding of urban change and public policy in a city such as Liverpool, where decentralisation of employment and population have led to a process of neighbourhood disintegration and the demolition of 55 000 dwellings since 1971. In addition, through a review of the Housing Market Renewal interventions (2002–2007) the paper sets out the impact of the programme on vacancy rates, house prices and household change, thus highlighting the lack of evidence relating to the gentrification of the inner-city housing market”;

 

 

Article 3: Tammy C.M. Leonard (2013): The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep, Housing Studies, 28:1, 33-56.

Housing concerns

“Many neighborhood-level attributes are provided largely through unmonitored voluntary contributions on the part of the neighborhood residents. Examples include the aesthetic appearance of the neighborhood, the supervision of neighborhood children, the care with which residents drive through the streets and participation in neighborhood social activities. These local public goods together create varying levels of neighborhood quality, which in turn impacts the well-being of neighborhood residents and is capitalized into neighborhood home prices. Although neighborhoods are but one piece of the puzzle, when neighborhoods improve, many improved outcomes are more easily attained—property values increase (Dubin, 1992), neighborhoods become more aesthetically pleasing (Leonard et al., 2011), socializing among residents is more likely (Sampson, 2003), neighborhood children often benefit from improved stability (Schaefer-McDaniel, 2009), physical activity is more likely as the neighborhood is more ‘walkable’ (Saelens et al., 2003; Sallis & Glanz, 2006) and communities benefit from increased tax revenue. Likewise, the opposite can be said of neighborhoods in decay”;

Research objectives/ research questions

“The purpose of this paper is to better understand the housing market determinants of local public good provision by analyzing the relationship between default risk—in both up and down housing markets—and routine maintenance expenditures”;