Housing Policy Towards the Rental Sector in Italy: A Distributive Assessment

Massimo Baldini and Teresio Poggio

Housing Studies, 2012, vol. 27, issue 5, 563-581

Abstract: We study the distributive effects on Italian households of the three most relevant housing subsidies targeted to renters: a national rent supplement scheme introduced in the context of the reform that liberalised the rental market in the late 1990s, a tax credit for renters that has been recently strengthened and the implicit economic support given to tenants in the social housing sector, through below-market rents. The analysis is performed on data from the Eu-Silc survey for Italy and, in the case of the housing allowances, also on register data from 9 out of the 13 largest Italian towns. We consider, in particular, the ability of these schemes to target low-income households and their effects on the overall levels of poverty and inequality. Results from our analysis show a good targeting but very limited effect on social protection, with the partial exception of social housing.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697549

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