Unravelling housing finance : subsidies, benefits, and taxation
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Unravelling housing finance : subsidies, benefits, and taxation
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-325) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780198773030
Description
This is a detailed survey and analysis of the ways in which governments affect the price of housing, taking into account the many changes of the last few years. The study examines the system and the way in which governments affect it, covering subjects such as subsidies to council housing and housing associations, housing benefit for those with low incomes, tax concessions for owner occupiers, and other subsidies such as the right to buy, or improvement grants. The book also examines the complicated network of interactions between these elements, analyzing results such as the patterns of gains from different kinds of subsidies and incentives. The final part looks at proposals designed to offer a practical route out of the current tangle of housing finance.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Background: Why is housing subsidized?
- Public spending on housing
- Trends in housing costs
- Part II: Subsidy systems: Subsidy principles and problems
- Local authorities: finance and control
- Local authority housing subsidies
- Housing association subsidies
- Other housing subsidies
- Part III: Housing benefits: Housing benefit: principles and problems
- Part IV: Taxation: Principles of housing taxation
- Housing taxation in Britain
- Part V: Evaluation: The economic return on local authority housing
- Distributional effects of the system
- Subsidies to local authorities and housing associations
- Patterns of incentives
- Part VI: Reform: The reform agenda
- Untangling housing finance.
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ISBN 9780198773047
Description
Housing finance affects virtually everyone, whether they own their own home or rent it. Even those who are homeless may be so because of the failings of the current system. This book examines the system and the way in which governments affect it, covering subjects such as subsidies to council housing and housing associations, housing benefit for those with low incomes, tax concessions for owner occupiers and other subsidies like the "right to buy", or improvement grants. It also examines the network of interactions between these elements, analyzing results such as the patterns of gains from the different kinds of subsidy and of incentives to different households and landlords. The final part looks at proposals for reform aimed to give a possible way out of the current tangle of housing finance.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Background: why is housing subsidized?
- public spending on housing
- trends in housing costs. Part 2 Subsidy systems: subsidy principles and problems
- local authorities - finance and control
- local authority housing subsidies
- housing association subsidies
- other housing subsidies. Part 3 Housing benefits: housing benefit - principles and problems. Part 4 Taxation: principles of housing taxation
- housing taxation in Britain. Part 5 Evaluation: the economic return on local authority housing
- distributional effects of the system
- subsidies to local authorities and housing associations - patterns of incentives. Part 6 Reform: the reform agenda
- untangling housing finance.
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