Reconstructing Urban Politics with a Bourdieusian Framework: The Case of Local Low‐Income Housing Policy

This research aimed to reconstruct a local urban politics and develop a meso–micro‐level model of urban politics through a case study, drawing on a Bourdieusian relational framework. To this end, it investigated the case of local low‐income housing policy — inclusionary zoning — in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. It historicized the path of the local low‐income policy issue through document analysis and qualitative media content analysis. Through multiple analyses, the study revealed that urban politics consists of complex interlinkages among stakeholders with shared values or interests from different social domains, created in order to dominate the policy issue. The study further investigated, on the basis of Bourdieu's concepts of capital and habitus, what elicited different political strategies from key community leaders.     

住房流动性对房价指数的影响及其定量分析

目前中国城市住房市场不稳定程度较高,这不仅体现为房价的迅速变化,而且反映在交易量的大幅波动上,后者就是住房流动性的变化。有学者研究指出,以实际交易价格为基础的房价指数可能会低估住房市场的波动程度。为了更准确地把握住房市场的运行状态,本文借鉴美国MIT的相关技术,分析了住房流动性（交易活跃程度）对房价指数的影响,并尝试将流动性信息引入房价指数当中。我们发现,住房流动性对于房价指数有较大影响,且符合人们对于市场走势的直观判断,能够较好地反映市场转折点。     

The Housing Market

The housing market ended 2013 on a strong note, with momentum building in both prices and transactions. And market indicators point to further acceleration in activity and prices this year. As of March, annual growth in property prices was running at around 10% on the ONS, Nationwide and Halifax measures, with London prices were reported to have increased by 18% in the year to February…     

The Housing Market

The housing market recovery has continued to gain momentum with activity accelerating and prices continuing to increase strongly on all measures in the latter part of 2013. This trend looks set to continue in the short‐term, with the latest survey data from RICS reporting strong growth in new buyer enquiries…     

Negotiating the Politics of Exclusion: Georges Candilis,Housing and the Kuwaiti Welfare State

In the early stages of welfare planning, the Kuwaiti state restricted equal access to its housing programs in neighborhoods outside the city. The subsequent demographic shift, caused by a Kuwaiti exodus to the ‘suburbs' and non‐Kuwaiti urban labor migration, prompted calls for housing schemes to encourage city living for citizens. Georges Candilis's proposal for a residential neighborhood in Kuwait City emerged from this context. This article examining Candilis's unrealized project also offers a critical perspective on Kuwait's unbalanced housing policies. From this analysis, it draws observations on the role of architects and their limited impact on policies established by decision‐making networks within the welfare state. Seen from this perspective, the Candilis project bears witness to broader socio‐economic agendas that privileged some groups while marginalizing or excluding others.     

The Politics of Protection

A variety of methods of controlling imports is available to governments who wish to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. The political choice of which device to use will often be dictated by the diffusion of costs and benefits among differing interest groups in society. David Greenaway, Professor or Economics at the diversity of Nottingham, examines the political market for protection.     

The Politics of Welfare

People must be given the maximum opportunities to opt out of state provision-both consumers and providers. Rational criticism of state welfare, including the historical evidence, should be encouraged. And the family, charities, churches and voluntary associations should be seen as the mostappropriate moral outlet for compassion.     

The Variegated Financialization of Housing

There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the financialization of housing and the importance of housing to financialization, the relations between housing and financialization remain under‐researched and under‐theorized. The financialization of housing is not really a specific form of financialization, transcending as it does a number of different forms of financialization. Housing systems, in particular, vary widely across the globe, which implies that housing financialization will be inherently variegated, path‐dependent and uneven. In this introduction to the symposium, I will discuss how the articles to follow contribute to the literature on the financialization of housing. Housing has entered a post‐Fordist, neoliberal and financialized regime. Increasingly, both mortgaged homeownership and subsidized rental housing are there to keep financial markets going, rather than being facilitated by those markets. There is little evidence that the global financial crisis has resulted in any de‐financialization of housing. There are common trajectories within uneven and variegated financialization, rather than radically different and completely unrelated forms of housing financialization.     

The Social Consequences of Housing

The social capital literature documents a connection between social connection and economic outcomes of interest ranging from government quality to economic growth. Popular authors suggest that housing and architecture are important determinants of social connection. This paper examines the connection between housing structure and social connection. We find that residents of large apartment buildings are more likely to be socially connected with their neighbors, perhaps because the distance between neighbors is lower in apartment buildings. Apartment residents are less involved in local politics, presumably because they are less connected with the public infrastructure and space that surrounds them. Street crime (robbery, auto theft) is also more common around big apartment buildings and we believe that this also occurs because there is less connection between people in apartments and the streets that surround them.     

住房公积金在住房保障体系中的重要作用

住房公积金作为一项福利措施,在购买住房过程中能够享受一定的优惠。本文通过分析住房公积金的概念,分析公积金的特点,同时提出优化公积金的政策建议,进而为构建住房保障体系提供参考依据。     

The Economics of Apartheid Politics

Apartheid in South Africa is too often discussed in emotional or nationalistic terms. Professor Duncan Reekie, a Scottish economist now teaching at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, analyses the economic aspects of the political forces working with and against eventual liberalisation.     

保障性住房供应体系重构下的公租房发展趋势

公共租赁房作为保障性住房体系的重要组成部分,其发展趋势值得关注。在归纳评述国内现有相关研究的基础上,采用文案调查和定性分析方法,分析了现阶段我国城市保障性住房体系现状及重构走向,进而提出公共租赁房的发展趋势,认为公共租赁房将成为保障性住房供应体系的主体,多种住房类型合并管理,租金收取实行分档回补,动态监管工作将会加大力度等。     

中国城乡居民住房不平等分析

随着中国城镇住房分配体制的转型,居民的居住条件在很大程度上依赖于家庭的收入水平,因此不断扩大的收入差距也在无形中影响着住房的不平等状况。基于2002年和2013年的城镇和农村的住户调查数据,本文从住房面积和房产价值两个角度分析中国农村和城镇居民住房不平等的总体状况。研究发现,在住房市场化体制建立和发展的过程中,虽然从财产所有权上的住房均等化有所提升,家庭居住面积有了很大的改善,但人均居住面积分布的不均等程度却进一步扩大。房产价值的不平等分析表明,虽然这一时期居民的住房财富高速增长,但城乡内部和城乡之间的房产差距都急剧扩大。基于回归分解的方法考察住房财富不平等的影响因素后发现,区域差异、收入差异和人力资本是造成居民房产价值分布差距不断扩大的重要因素。     

高覆盖率保障房建设的融资方式

高覆盖率保障房制度,是彻底解决住房问题的唯一途径.要建立这一体系,关键就是要解决大规模融资的问题.否则,覆盖率就无法提高,分配就不可能公平,保障房制度就无法持续,甚至引发社会问题.“先租后售”保障房模式,为大规模利用市场资本建设保障房提供了基础.通过发行资产担保债券(Covered Bonds),结合公积金制度,就可以为绝大多数新增城市居民建设保障房提供融资.为此需要对现有的制度进行相应的改造.     

住房市场的供给结构及两类市场的调控

近几年房价节节攀升,如何制定行之有效的房地产市场调控政策成为政府面临的重要问题。本文跳出以往研究房地产市场的思路,在分别分析商品性住房和政策性住房两类市场的基础上,结合当下的调控措施提出相应的政策建议。     

住房市场的供给结构及两类市场的调控

近几年房价节节攀升,如何制定行之有效的房地产市场调控政策成为政府面临的重要问题。本文跳出以往研究房地产市场的思路,在分别分析商品性住房和政策性住房两类市场的基础上,结合当下的调控措施提出相应的政策建议。     

首富“从政”？

比成为首富更令民营企业家忧虑的是成为“双料”首富,向来低调的三一集团董事长梁稳根就遭遇了这一烦恼。