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Study on Housing Exclusion: Welfare Policies, Housing Provision and Labour Markets
with national teams led by:
Isabel Baptista (Centro de Estudos para Intervenacao Social, Portugal)
Christiane Dorste (Urban Plus, Germany)
Marja Elsinga (OTB, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, UK)
Jozsef HegedĂĽs (Metropolitan Research Institute, Hungary)
Lena Magnusson Turner (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden)
The research was being undertaken in conjunction with FEANTSA and CECODHAS with additional work by Guido van Steen and Yekaterina Chzhen.
Authors: Mark Stephens, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Marja Elsinga, Guido van Steen and Yekaterina Chzhen
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BACKGROUND
European "welfare regimes" produce different levels and patterns of employment and income poverty. Traditionally, in both policy and academic study, the relationships between welfare states, labour markets and housing have been neglected. This project aimed to fill this gap by examining the interface between welfare regimes and housing systems in six European countries.
The project employed extensive analysis of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) to examine the links between income poverty, employment status and housing outcomes. The role that housing policies and features of housing systems may play in disrupting simple links between income and housing outcomes are also examined.
Focus groups and interviews with experts have been conducted in each of the countries, employing vignettes to establish the causes and responses to homelessness, with particular reference to certain categories of vulnerable people.
Further quantitative and qualitative analysis
examined whether housing systems affect labour
market participation.
In addition to new evidence, the project identified
successful policies and good practice.