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Affordable housing =
rocket science?
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Affordable... in England..?
The average house price in England was 6.4 times local salaries in 2002, and 8.8 in 2014. For London: ~ 20 times the local salaries.
In Oxford, Brighton and Cambridge the average private rent took around 50% of local pay. Rents in London took an average 55% of the local pay. Source: Office for National Statistics.
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Affordable in Sweden…?
The cost of buying a home
went up by 14%, across Sweden (Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2015)
News of the hike in prices came just a week after the country’s National Institute of Economic Research warned that the housing market could soon end up crashing.
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Affordable in Copenhagen..?
Property prices in Copenhagen rose by 40-60% in 3 years June 2012-Oct. 2015 (Bloomberg Oct. -15)
Denmark’s biggest mortgage bank, Nykredit, says there’s a “real risk” Copenhagen is heading into a property bubble.
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800,000 Vietnamese people fled the country in the two decades after the end of the Vietnam War.
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Temporary homes “better shelter”
by IKEA and UNHCR
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A mission impossible…really? Germany: 1960s; an average of 570,000
homes were being built annually – 714,000, in 1973!
UK: 1.5 Mi homes were completed 1945-55 Sweden: 1 Mi homes 1965–1975 The NL: From 2.1 Mi homes in 1947 to 4.8
Mi homes in 1980 (130 %) 1980-2000: 2 Mi new homes were added to the housing stock.
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Affordable housing vs speculation and the market
The financial crises started, in 2008, with the sub-prime market in the US, and then spread to Europe, where banks were, and are still, very willing to lend out money.
The rest is history – or is it really..? What, if any, did we learn from this crises?
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What did we learn? That banks, financial
sector, do not have a social responsibility,
that governments do not control the financial sector - enough,
that the financial sector can destabilise our entire societies.
That the financial fates of banks and its governments are too closely linked: Insolvency of one threatens insolvency of the other.
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What did we learn? That true affordable
housing is generally not achieved by the market, but by governments and local authorities - by the public sector.
That countries with a good balance between rental- and ownership housing (DE, AT, CH) did not, or do not, experience major housing bubbles… > more stabile housing markets.
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What do we need?
Prevent the banks from getting too big - Too big To Fail - TBTF (so that governments and taxpayers should not have to pay up when these banks can not be shut down, can not go bankrupt – TBTF)
That public money - tax payer’s money - should stay in the public sector. Right-to-Buy (of public/social housing) is not the solution.
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What do we need?
More tenure neutral housing policies – between homeownership and renting and, more government support towards affordable rental housing.
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like after WWII - construction of
(affordable) housing, not only
created homes, but also jobs and
political stability.
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Development of housing tenure, in % of total stock, 1946 – 2011 + trend for 2014
52.6
80
70,8
65
26.1
8.1
18,8 25
16.5
8,9 7,5 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
1946 1961 1971 1981 1991 2002 2006 2011 2014
ownership
private rental
social rental
Source: National Economic & Social Council IE, 2014
What do we need: Rules that controls the rents, also in the private rental sector – that makes rents affordable and foreseeable.
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IRELAND
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Affordable housing =
rocket science?
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No, it’s all about
politics!
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Affordable housing
…where there is political courage and will, there is
always a way! Thank you!
/Magnus Hammar [email protected]
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Prague March 16-18, 2016