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posted on 2019-01-09, 16:36 authored by Matt PadleyMatt Padley, Lydia Marshall
There is growing concern about a crisis in housing affordability in the UK, renewing longstanding debates about what constitutes ‘affordable’ housing. The growing use of the private rented sector by low income households has also led to increased interest in understanding the impact of housing costs on living standards. This paper builds on existing work on ‘residual income’ measures of housing affordability, accepting that what households can afford to pay for housing is related to their ability to cover other costs, and so not directly proportional to income. It proposes a new approach to defining and measuring housing affordability, based on the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). The paper then uses data from the Family Resources Survey (2008/09 to 2015/16) to examine housing affordability within the rented sector across the UK, exploring the value of this measure both in revealing the scale of the ‘problem’ and assessing the likely impact of suggested interventions.

Funding

This analysis arose out of the ‘A Minimum Income Standard for London’ programme of work, funded by Trust for London. Acknowledgements also go to the Housing Studies Association, for awarding Lydia Marshall a bursary to present an earlier version of this paper at the ENHR 2016 conference.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Housing Studies

Volume

34

Issue

8

Pages

1307 - 1329

Citation

PADLEY, M. and MARSHALL, L., 2018. Defining and measuring housing affordability using the Minimum Income Standard. Housing Studies, 34 (8), pp.1307-1329.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Housing Studies on 20 December 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02673037.2018.1538447.

Acceptance date

2018-10-16

Publication date

2018-12-20

ISSN

0267-3037

eISSN

1466-1810

Language

  • en