The regional macroeconomic impact of projected affordable housing developments : facilitating the 'levelling up' agenda?

Boyle, Stephen and Connolly, Kevin and McGregor, Peter G and Spowage, Mairi (2022) The regional macroeconomic impact of projected affordable housing developments : facilitating the 'levelling up' agenda? Local Economy, 37 (5). pp. 384-402. ISSN 1470-9325 (https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942221130022)

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Abstract

While investment in social housing is mentioned in the Government’s white paper on levelling up, it does not receive the emphasis extended to infrastructure investment. Traditionally, the case for affordable housing was based on merit goods arguments. While the economic effects of housing have been explored, this has mainly been through traditional economic impact studies whose perceived weakness has led to a degree of policy scepticism around the findings of such studies. Recently, however, a strong case has been made for treating investment in housing on a comparable basis to infrastructure on the basis of its potentially important impacts on the supply side, stimulating labour supply and productivity. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential economic impacts of meeting the projections of affordable housing needed in Scotland to combat homelessness using a framework that overcomes the weaknesses of conventional impact analyses.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:82720
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    6 October 2022
    Published
    6 October 2022
    Published Online
    12 September 2022
    Accepted
    Subjects:Social Sciences
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Oct 2022 14:43
    Last modified:11 Apr 2024 02:33
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/82720
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