Urban Housing Markets : Recent Directions in Research and Policy.

This volume is both a record of the Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues.

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Main Author: Bourne, Larry, S.
Other Authors: Hitchcock, John, R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1978
Series:Heritage.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXT
  • 1.1 "Housing Research and Policy Development: Themes from the Conference
  • II: OVERVIEW OF HOUSING MARKET RESEARCH
  • 2.1 "Housing Markets and Housing Demand: Analytic Approaches
  • 2.2 Responses
  • 1 William G. Grigsby
  • 2 Lawrence B. Smith
  • 3 Jeffrey Patterson
  • III: DEMAND AND INCOME ANALYSIS
  • 3.1 "Some Evidence on the Recent Boom 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.