Housing Observatories: A View of Affordability in Times of Soaring Inflation
A report on the International Social Housing Festival session
Housing affordability remains a topic which is far from clear and uncontroversial. And this is not surprising as the terms is interpreted and used differently in the policy sphere and even within the academic world. The chapters in this report don’t have the ambition to come to one single answer to this ‘philosophical’ question of what housing affordability means, but to show concretely how relevant sets of indicators, which necessarily must include quantitative as well as qualitative aspects, can help identifying gaps and come up with useful solutions.
Advantages as well as disadvantages in the use of different indicators to describe affordability in Amsterdam, Milano, Luxembourg, Zurich, Barcelona, Northrine-Westfalen and Emilia Romagna are summarized in this report.