 Exploding House Prices in Urban Housing Markets: Explanations and Policy Solutions for the NetherlandsChristian Lennartz (),
Barbara Baarsma and
Nic Vrieselaar
Chapter Chapter 18 in Hot Property, 2019, pp 207-221 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Strong house price growth is by no means a post-crisis phenomenon but has been at the centre of economic and societal transformations in almost all advanced economies since the 1980s. More recently, however, more expensive and more unaffordable housing has become increasingly concentrated in urban housing markets, suggesting that the underlying causes of house price appreciation have shifted in a different direction. This policy paper illustrates the concrete processes and underlying mechanisms of these developments in the major cities of the Netherlands. Using these findings we then discuss specific housing and planning policies that could make urban housing markets less volatile and more equitable. These policy proposals revolve around three key themes: how to produce more and more affordable housing units; how to better allocate scarce housing resources among residents and across regions; and how to reduce the speculative element in contemporary housing markets. Date: 2019 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-11674-3_18 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11674-3_18 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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