By Jarmila Botev, Peter Hoeller, Caroline Klein Danish housing policy aims at providing quality and affordable accommodation to all in… Read More »Building a better housing market in Denmark: a reform package to improve efficiency, raise supply and enhance affordability
Portugal’s housing has become increasingly unaffordable. This blog explores the causes and outlines coordinated reforms to boost supply, mobilise housing, and expand support.
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By Patrizio Sicari and Müge Adalet McGowan. Over recent decades, Ireland has seen significant gains in living standards, alongside a… Read More »Ireland: Boosting housing supply to raise living standards and preserve competitiveness
By Volker Ziemann, OECD Economics Department Like many other countries, Slovenia faces complex housing sector challenges that must be addressed to… Read More »A roadmap for efficient, inclusive and sustainable housing in Slovenia
By Federica De Pace As in many OECD countries, housing affordability deteriorated in Slovakia before the energy crisis. Between 2015… Read More »Addressing housing market challenges in the Slovak Republic
The historical development of housing in Central and Eastern European countries continues to have implications for the tenure, type, quality and affordability of housing today, calling for policy actions to address a looming affordability challenge.
Continuing labour market reforms, tackling inequity in education and supporting housing affordability would promote equal access to life chances in Belgium.
By Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department, and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Many young people,… Read More »No Home for the Young?
By Boris Cournède and Caroline Roulet, OECD Economics Department Housing finance is critical to help households make their typically largest… Read More »The landscape of housing finance in OECD countries: shifts and faultlines
By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Following a period when homelessness… Read More »Finland’s Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story