Urban Housing Markets : : Recent Directions in Research and Policy / / ed. by Larry Bourne, John Hitchcock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bossons, John,; Bourne, Larry S.,; Clatworthy, Stewart J.,; Davies, Gordon W.,; Goldberg, Michael A.,; Grigsby, William G.,; Hitchcock, John R.,; Hobart, Robert J.,; McFadyen, Stuart M.,; Moore, Eric G.,; Ozanne, Larry,; Patterson, Jeffrey,; Quigley, John M.,; Rose, Albert,; Scheffman, David T.,; Smith, Lawrence B.,; Struyk, Raymond J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bourne, Larry,; Hitchcock, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues. The book captures the flavor of a lively debate between academics and policy analysts, and the commentaries and discussion sections provide, in non-technical language, a statement of some major questions confronting government policy on housing.In addition to its use as a record of an important Canadian conference, the book is a valuable collection of recent housing research. The ten papers cover a wide variety of topics ranging from conceptual and methodological issues on the one hand to critiques of Canadian housing policies on the other. They indicate the range of issues which must be taken into account in assessing housing policy. Taken together with the discussion material which helps to focus attention on strategic issues in both Canada and the United States, they provide a useful introduction to current debates over housing policy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Concepts and Context -- 1.1 Housing Research and Policy Development: Themes from the Conference" -- II. Overview of Housing Market Research -- Housing Markets and Housing Demand: Analytic Approaches -- Responses -- III. Demand and Income Analysis -- 3.1 Some Evidence on the Recent Boom 57 in Land and Housing Prices -- 3.2 Housing Demand and Household Wealth: Evidence for Home Owners -- IV. Supply and Price Considerations -- 4.1 The Price Elasticity of Supply of Housing Services -- 4.2 Theoretical Approaches to Filtering in the Urban Housing Market -- 4.3 Inflation and Urban Home Ownership -- V. Studies of Local Markets and Information Systems -- 5.1 Developer Behaviour and Urban Growth: Analysis and Synthesis -- 5.2 The Role of Urban Data Systems in the Analysis of Housing Issues -- VI. Social Policy Considerations -- 6.1 The Impact of Recent Trends in Social Housing Policies -- 6.2 Distributional and Social Impacts of Canadian National Housing Policy: Leaving it to the Market -- VII. Perspectives on the Housing Debate: Plenary Discussion -- Glossary of Abbreviations -- Biographies of Authors -- Conference Participants