How different? Comparing housing policies and housing affordability consequences for low income households in Australia and the Netherlands

Much of the literature considering the historic development of housing systems has focussed on the factors contributing to similarities and differences in housing policies, rather than on questioning their significance to housing outcomes. This study suggests that fresh insights may be gained into the importance of differences in housing policy strategy by analysing their consequences. Two countries, Australia and the Netherlands, with contrasting approaches to intervention in housing, while similar in many other respects, have been used to examine whether and to what extent differences in hou... Mehr ...