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Catalogue Entry: Ability of households to keep the dwelling warm
In addition to rents and mortgages, owners and tenants face other housing outlays such as utility and repair costs (refer to Indicator HC1.2 for a discussion of different...-
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Catalogue Entry: HOUSING COSTS OVER INCOME
Housing costs can represent a substantial financial burden to households, especially low-income households. The median of the ratio of housing costs over income gives an...-
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Catalogue Entry: Housing space
Space is an important dimension of housing quality. Several studies outline the negative effects of limitations in space and overcrowded dwellings on health, and particularly on...-
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Catalogue Entry: Overview of affordable housing indicators
There is no international consensus on how to define or measure housing affordability, and no single measure fully captures the range of concerns around the ability of...-
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Catalogue Entry: Subjective measures on Housing
This indicator presents selected subjective measures based on poll survey data. The first set of measures presents reported levels of satisfaction with housing, whereas the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Tax relief for home owners
In many OECD countries, people who buy or own a home benefit from favourable tax treatment, in addition to grants and credit support to home buyers (See PH 2.1). This indicator...-
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Catalogue Entry: Social rental dwellings stock
Social housing includes different forms of housing support across OECD countries, with considerable cross-national differences in terms of tenure, size, and type of providers....-
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Catalogue Entry: Severe housing deprivation
Different factors influence the quality of housing, and some households face a multiple of shortcomings in their dwelling. Too little space (see Indicator HC2.1) may coincide...-
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Catalogue Entry: Rental regulation
This indicator presents information on key aspects of regulation in the private rental sector, mainly collected through the OECD Questionnaire on Affordable and Social Housing...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recipients and payment rates of housing allowances
In many countries, housing allowances are an important tool of affordable housing policy (see Indicator PH3.1 on Public spending on housing allowance as a % of GDP). “Housing...-
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Catalogue Entry: Public spending on support to social rental housing as % GDP
This indicator looks at the amount of government support for social rental housing, as reported in the OECD Questionnaire on Social and Affordable Housing (2021 or 2019). The...-
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Catalogue Entry: Public spending on housing allowance as % of GDP
This indicator presents figures on the amount of public spending on housing allowances across OECD countries. Housing allowances are means- and/or income-tested income transfers...-
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Catalogue Entry: Public spending on grants and financial support to home buyers
This indicator looks at financial support to homebuyers and homeowners through grants, loans, mortgage guarantees and other similar mechanisms, as reported in the OECD...-
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Catalogue Entry: Policy instruments and level of governance
This indicator summarises the types of policy measures towards affordable housing that exist in countries that responded to the 2021, 2019 and 2016 OECD Questionnaire on...-
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Catalogue Entry: Percentage of households living without indoor flushing toilet
A lack of basic sanitary amenities, such as a flushing toilet, is a measure of poor quality housing and is also considered a health risk (Eurofound, 2016). Further discussion of...-
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Catalogue Entry: Housing policy objectives and obstacles
This indicator presents a summary of the main housing policy objectives in national housing strategies, as well as obstacles faced in ensuring access to affordable housing, as...-
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Catalogue Entry: National strategies for combating homelessness
This indicator presents an overview of strategies and major legislation tackling homelessness at the national and regional level, as reported by OECD, key partner and EU...-
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Catalogue Entry: Measures to finance housing improvements and regeneration
This indicator presents an overview of measures to finance housing improvements and regeneration of existing residential dwellings as reported by responding countries to the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Measures supporting affordable housing development
This indicator presents an overview of measures to property developers to finance the construction of new affordable housing as reported by responding countries to the 2021,...-
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Catalogue Entry: Living arrangements by age groups
People's living arrangements change over the life cycle. In many countries, when young people move out of their parents' home, they frequently share dwellings with other young...-
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