Housing and Inequality

Anno
2021
Proponente -
Struttura
Sottosettore ERC del proponente del progetto
SH3_7
Componenti gruppo di ricerca
Componente Categoria
Michele Raitano Aggiungi Tutor di riferimento (Professore o Ricercatore afferente allo stesso Dipartimento del Proponente)
Abstract

Housing is a topical and complex issue both in social and economic terms. It highly affects household well-being and it could have a great effect on increasing or reducing households standard of living. Several works analyse housing in relation to inequality and they have highlighted the difficulties to include non-monetary components, mostly housing benefits. The purpose of this research proposal is to analyse the impact of housing on poverty and inequality in several aspects. The main questions that arise about housing are the following:
1. What is the best approach on computing housing into equivalised household disposable income in order to measure income inequality?
2. How housing affects inequality and vice versa: social and economic implications
3. Which data are more suitable to analyse housing? Surveys, administrative or 'big data' database.
4. Taxation, public incentives and housing market: the role of the 'Ecobonus 110%'.
5. Which is the effect of rising/reducing house prices on inequality?
6. New technologies and challenges: which is the effect of sharing economy platforms (e.g. Airbnb, Booking.com) and SARS-CoV-2 on housing market?
The right to housing is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). In both documents housing is linked to the right to an adequate and decorous standard of living. Analysing how housing contributed in increasing or decreasing inequality, especially during shocks, is intriguing for policymakers and for academic purposes. The potential use of big data could become an interesting source of information, which can be used for detailed researches. Understanding the dynamic of housing market in several aspects could help policymakers to correct distortions and to implement policy evaluation.

ERC
SH1_13, SH3_7, SH3_2
Keywords:
DISEGUAGLIANZA, MICROECONOMIA, BENESSERE ECONOMICO, STRUMENTI DI POLICY, ECONOMIA PUBBLICA

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