Christine M E Whitehead
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine M E Whitehead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehead |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHEAD C M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Comment – On building typologies of housing systems in the OECD
International audience
Urban Land Markets
Planning Policies and Affordable Housing: England as a Successful Case Study
Over the last two decades England has been developing a system by which the majority of new affordable housing will be produced with the help of the land-use planning system. As such it provides an apparently successful example of a trend observable in many countries of using land regulation to achieve housing goals. This paper addresses both the conceptual basis for this approach and the English experience by first setting out the rationale and …
Response: Housing, Tenure and Opportunity
Keywords: Social HousingNeighbourhoodDeprivationPolicy Comparison
Reducing Housing Subsidy: Swedish Housing Policy in an International Context
Swedish housing policy was dramatically changed during the 1990s. A traditional formally tenure-neutral and generous subsidy system has been replaced by much lower levels of assistance, more directed at lower-income households and depressed areas. This paper sets the Swedish policy in an international context as part of a much more general pattern of reduced and rebalanced expenditures associated with liberalisation and the transfer of risk. The …
Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing
The current mechanism for providing affordable housing through the planning system in England is based on negotiation within the framework of Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 and Circular 6/98. In this paper the authors examine three groups of questions. First, on the development of the policy, they look at how the need for affordable housing is assessed, how the policy evolved, and how it is currently operated. Second, on the principles and poten…
The Provision of Finance for Social Housing: The UK Experience
This paper reviews the mechanisms by which the British government has introduced private finance into the provision of housing for lower-income households. It clarifies the range of measures that have allowed transfers from social to private ownership, both into owner-occupation and to independent landlords. However, the main thrust of the paper is an examination of the approach to introducing private finance into new social provision undertaken …
Land supply and housing: A case‐study
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of land use planning controls on the supply, price and type of dwellings provided. It first reviews how the role of planning is viewed in Britain. It then examines the literature on both methodologies and outcomes to clarify which relationships are well documented and the merits of an eclectic approach to measuring these effects. The next two sections set out our hypotheses about the different …
Private renting in the 1990s
This introduction to the four papers which together make up the focus issue on private renting has three aims. First, it draws out some of their common themes. Second, it looks in more detail at definitions of private renting and how these relate to the sector's size and functions. Finally, it attempts to clarify the more fundamental attributes of demand and supply of privately rented accommodation and thus the factors which tend to result in the…
From Need to Affordability: An Analysis of UK Housing Objectives
Recent housing policy debates in the UK have shifted away from discussion of housing need to more market-oriented analyses of affordability. This article discusses the principles that lie behind the concepts of need and affordability and the ways in which they have been defined. It then traces the development of policy and debate in the UK with respect to both need and affordability. In particular it discusses the different ways in which policy i…
British housing since 1979: Has the system changed
This article assesses the way the British housing system has responded to large changes in policy and economic variables since 1979 in order to determine whether behavioural relationships have remained stable during this period or whether underlying relationships have varied. Changes in demographic factors in relation to total supply, in the allocation of housing between different groups and different tenures, in rents, prices and the availabilit…
Private Renting in London: Is It So Different
This article examines the special role of the private rented sector in the provision of housing in London. The proportion of households who rent privately continues to be much higher in the capital than in the rest of the country. The reasons for this are analysed, together with the type of households that are found in the sector in London, and the sort of accommodation they obtain. The conclusion is reached that while the operation of the sector…
Urban and Metropolitan Economics
The Private Rented Sector: A Characteristics Approach
The paper applies the 'characteristics' approach developed with respect to the labour market in order to examine why the percentage of households who rent privately varies across the country. Regression analysis is used to show that the distribution of private renting is closely related to the distribution of particular household characteristics and that the relationship varies systematically between sub-sectors. Certain local market factors are …
Household Attributes and the Demand for Private Rental Housing
In traditional demand analysis the quantity of a commodity demanded is usually expressed only as a function of household income and prices. In other respects household preferences are assumed to be identical. Yet in the housing market we expect households with different characteristics to demand different types and quality of accommodation. We therefore develop a model to test the hypothesis that household characteristics other than income, such …
The Housing of Nations
The New Urban Economics and Alternatives
Urban Economics: Theory and Policy
Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution
Journal Article Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution Get access Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution. Edited by K. E. Boulding, M. Pfaff and A. Pfaff. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. Inc., 1973. Pp. vi + 376.) Christine M. E. Whitehead Christine M. E. Whitehead Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
From Need to Affordability: An Analysis of UK Housing Objectives
Recent housing policy debates in the UK have shifted away from discussion of housing need to more market-oriented analyses of affordability. This article discusses the principles that lie behind the concepts of need and affordability and the ways in which they have been defined. It then traces the development of policy and debate in the UK with respect to both need and affordability. In particular it discusses the different ways in which policy i…
Planning Policies and Affordable Housing: England as a Successful Case Study
Over the last two decades England has been developing a system by which the majority of new affordable housing will be produced with the help of the land-use planning system. As such it provides an apparently successful example of a trend observable in many countries of using land regulation to achieve housing goals. This paper addresses both the conceptual basis for this approach and the English experience by first setting out the rationale and …
Reducing Housing Subsidy: Swedish Housing Policy in an International Context
Swedish housing policy was dramatically changed during the 1990s. A traditional formally tenure-neutral and generous subsidy system has been replaced by much lower levels of assistance, more directed at lower-income households and depressed areas. This paper sets the Swedish policy in an international context as part of a much more general pattern of reduced and rebalanced expenditures associated with liberalisation and the transfer of risk. The …
Land supply and housing: A case‐study
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of land use planning controls on the supply, price and type of dwellings provided. It first reviews how the role of planning is viewed in Britain. It then examines the literature on both methodologies and outcomes to clarify which relationships are well documented and the merits of an eclectic approach to measuring these effects. The next two sections set out our hypotheses about the different …
Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing
The current mechanism for providing affordable housing through the planning system in England is based on negotiation within the framework of Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 and Circular 6/98. In this paper the authors examine three groups of questions. First, on the development of the policy, they look at how the need for affordable housing is assessed, how the policy evolved, and how it is currently operated. Second, on the principles and poten…
Private renting in the 1990s
This introduction to the four papers which together make up the focus issue on private renting has three aims. First, it draws out some of their common themes. Second, it looks in more detail at definitions of private renting and how these relate to the sector's size and functions. Finally, it attempts to clarify the more fundamental attributes of demand and supply of privately rented accommodation and thus the factors which tend to result in the…
British housing since 1979: Has the system changed
This article assesses the way the British housing system has responded to large changes in policy and economic variables since 1979 in order to determine whether behavioural relationships have remained stable during this period or whether underlying relationships have varied. Changes in demographic factors in relation to total supply, in the allocation of housing between different groups and different tenures, in rents, prices and the availabilit…
Household Attributes and the Demand for Private Rental Housing
In traditional demand analysis the quantity of a commodity demanded is usually expressed only as a function of household income and prices. In other respects household preferences are assumed to be identical. Yet in the housing market we expect households with different characteristics to demand different types and quality of accommodation. We therefore develop a model to test the hypothesis that household characteristics other than income, such …
The Provision of Finance for Social Housing: The UK Experience
This paper reviews the mechanisms by which the British government has introduced private finance into the provision of housing for lower-income households. It clarifies the range of measures that have allowed transfers from social to private ownership, both into owner-occupation and to independent landlords. However, the main thrust of the paper is an examination of the approach to introducing private finance into new social provision undertaken …
Private Renting in London: Is It So Different
This article examines the special role of the private rented sector in the provision of housing in London. The proportion of households who rent privately continues to be much higher in the capital than in the rest of the country. The reasons for this are analysed, together with the type of households that are found in the sector in London, and the sort of accommodation they obtain. The conclusion is reached that while the operation of the sector…
The Private Rented Sector: A Characteristics Approach
The paper applies the 'characteristics' approach developed with respect to the labour market in order to examine why the percentage of households who rent privately varies across the country. Regression analysis is used to show that the distribution of private renting is closely related to the distribution of particular household characteristics and that the relationship varies systematically between sub-sectors. Certain local market factors are …
Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution
Journal Article Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution Get access Transfers in an Urbanized Economy. The Grants Economics of Income Distribution. Edited by K. E. Boulding, M. Pfaff and A. Pfaff. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. Inc., 1973. Pp. vi + 376.) Christine M. E. Whitehead Christine M. E. Whitehead Goldsmiths College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Urban Economics: Theory and Policy
The Housing of Nations
The New Urban Economics and Alternatives
Household Attributes and the Demand for Private Rental Housing
In traditional demand analysis the quantity of a commodity demanded is usually expressed only as a function of household income and prices. In other respects household preferences are assumed to be identical. Yet in the housing market we expect households with different characteristics to demand different types and quality of accommodation. We therefore develop a model to test the hypothesis that household characteristics other than income, such …
The Private Rented Sector: A Characteristics Approach
The paper applies the 'characteristics' approach developed with respect to the labour market in order to examine why the percentage of households who rent privately varies across the country. Regression analysis is used to show that the distribution of private renting is closely related to the distribution of particular household characteristics and that the relationship varies systematically between sub-sectors. Certain local market factors are …
Urban and Metropolitan Economics
Private Renting in London: Is It So Different
This article examines the special role of the private rented sector in the provision of housing in London. The proportion of households who rent privately continues to be much higher in the capital than in the rest of the country. The reasons for this are analysed, together with the type of households that are found in the sector in London, and the sort of accommodation they obtain. The conclusion is reached that while the operation of the sector…
British housing since 1979: Has the system changed
This article assesses the way the British housing system has responded to large changes in policy and economic variables since 1979 in order to determine whether behavioural relationships have remained stable during this period or whether underlying relationships have varied. Changes in demographic factors in relation to total supply, in the allocation of housing between different groups and different tenures, in rents, prices and the availabilit…
From Need to Affordability: An Analysis of UK Housing Objectives
Recent housing policy debates in the UK have shifted away from discussion of housing need to more market-oriented analyses of affordability. This article discusses the principles that lie behind the concepts of need and affordability and the ways in which they have been defined. It then traces the development of policy and debate in the UK with respect to both need and affordability. In particular it discusses the different ways in which policy i…
Land supply and housing: A case‐study
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of land use planning controls on the supply, price and type of dwellings provided. It first reviews how the role of planning is viewed in Britain. It then examines the literature on both methodologies and outcomes to clarify which relationships are well documented and the merits of an eclectic approach to measuring these effects. The next two sections set out our hypotheses about the different …
Private renting in the 1990s
This introduction to the four papers which together make up the focus issue on private renting has three aims. First, it draws out some of their common themes. Second, it looks in more detail at definitions of private renting and how these relate to the sector's size and functions. Finally, it attempts to clarify the more fundamental attributes of demand and supply of privately rented accommodation and thus the factors which tend to result in the…
The Provision of Finance for Social Housing: The UK Experience
This paper reviews the mechanisms by which the British government has introduced private finance into the provision of housing for lower-income households. It clarifies the range of measures that have allowed transfers from social to private ownership, both into owner-occupation and to independent landlords. However, the main thrust of the paper is an examination of the approach to introducing private finance into new social provision undertaken …
Response: Housing, Tenure and Opportunity
Keywords: Social HousingNeighbourhoodDeprivationPolicy Comparison
Reducing Housing Subsidy: Swedish Housing Policy in an International Context
Swedish housing policy was dramatically changed during the 1990s. A traditional formally tenure-neutral and generous subsidy system has been replaced by much lower levels of assistance, more directed at lower-income households and depressed areas. This paper sets the Swedish policy in an international context as part of a much more general pattern of reduced and rebalanced expenditures associated with liberalisation and the transfer of risk. The …
Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing
The current mechanism for providing affordable housing through the planning system in England is based on negotiation within the framework of Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 and Circular 6/98. In this paper the authors examine three groups of questions. First, on the development of the policy, they look at how the need for affordable housing is assessed, how the policy evolved, and how it is currently operated. Second, on the principles and poten…
Planning Policies and Affordable Housing: England as a Successful Case Study
Over the last two decades England has been developing a system by which the majority of new affordable housing will be produced with the help of the land-use planning system. As such it provides an apparently successful example of a trend observable in many countries of using land regulation to achieve housing goals. This paper addresses both the conceptual basis for this approach and the English experience by first setting out the rationale and …
Urban Land Markets
Comment – On building typologies of housing systems in the OECD
International audience
Economics (18 works) · Business (12 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (11 works) · Public economics (10 works) · Housing Market and Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works)