 Housing Allowances and Forced MovesPost-Print from HAL Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of housing allowances on the ability of households to sustain their dwelling. Means-tested benefits may fail to shelter households from hardship when parameters are underindexed for inflation, when adjustments of benefits to changing situations take too long or are insufficient, or when the benefits have inflationary effects on rent levels. Using evidence from the national French Housing Survey (INSEE), based on probit models, the determinants of threats of forced moves are assessed both for housing allowance recipients and for non-recipients. We conclude that even if housing allowances are effective in overcoming unaffordability, they do not entirely shield recipient households from forced moves. A completely effective policy that aims to ensure the ‘right to housing' would reduce the risk of forced moves for recipient households to the risk level experienced by non-recipient households – a very difficult, if not impossible, objective. However, our results show, encouragingly, that the risk of forced moves for housing allowance recipients is nearly reduced to that of non-recipients. Keywords: Housing allowances; Forced move; Means tested benefit; Housing policies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in International Journal of Housing Policy, 2013, 13 (2), pp.159-182. ⟨10.1080/14616718.2013.789750⟩ 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:hal:journl:hal-04511159 DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789750 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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