Over Our Heads: Housing Costs & Australian Families

While research on the spatial variation in populist right voting focuses on the role of “places left behind”, this paper examines the spatial distribution of populist right voting in one of the fastest growing capital cities of Europe, Vienna. Combining detailed electoral data of the 2017 national elections at the statistical ward level and the location of municipal housing units, the paper examines why the populist right “Austrian Freedom Party” (FPOE) performs better in the former bulwarks of socialism, in the municipal housing areas of “Red Vienna”. The paper links the socio-demographic development of Vienna and its municipal housing policy with election results and explores three possible reasons for elevated FPOE shares in municipal housing areas: rising housing costs pushed an increasing number of socially and economically vulnerable into the municipal housing sector and so increased the FPOE voter pool in those areas; European Union accession and changes in regulation allowed foreign citizens to apply to and obtain municipal housing flats triggering a backlash from Austrian municipal housing residents; and municipal housing is located in disadvantaged neighbourhoods further enhancing the FPOE voter pool. The paper demonstrates that higher FPOE vote shares in areas with high municipal housing shares are due primarily to higher shares of formally less educated residents, neighbourhood context and they are marginally elevated in those municipal housing areas experiencing a larger influx of foreign residents.

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Housing Costs and Prices Under Regional Regulation

Real Estate Economics ◽

10.1111/1540-6229.00250 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 384-396

Author(s):

James C. Nicholas

Keyword(s):

Housing Costs

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Vulnerability to Natural Disaster and Welfare Effect: A Case Study of Flood Risk in Vietnam’s North Central Region

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/0021909621993499 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002190962199349

Author(s):

Manh-Hung Nguyen ◽

Dung P Le ◽

Thang T Vo

Keyword(s):

Flood Risk ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Household Survey ◽

North Central ◽

Household Level ◽

Central Vietnam ◽

Housing Costs ◽

Household Vulnerability ◽

The Impact

This article investigates the impact of flood risk on vulnerability and welfare at the household level in Vietnam. The analytical sample is taken from a household survey conducted in a north central Vietnam community through a three-stage stratified random sampling method. The propensity score matching approach is employed to compare various welfare indicators between flooded and non-flooded households. This study finds that flooding results in significant income losses and imposes higher costs of living, especially housing costs. The two types of households are vulnerable, implying that other natural disasters or socio-economic disadvantages may have adverse effects on households’ livelihoods. The insignificant effect of floods on vulnerability indicates that the flooded households can cope with floods to some extent. However, contrary to family support, formal coping strategies are insufficient or ineffective at reducing household vulnerability to floods.

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"One Musician at a Time"

Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation ◽

10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6341 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2-3) ◽

Author(s):

Dale Chapman

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Financial Support ◽

Important Work ◽

Medical Expenses ◽

Housing Costs

Dale Chapman discusses the important work that the Jazz Foundation of America is doing during the pandemic, assisting jazz musicians with housing costs, medical expenses, and emergency financial support, and argues for the pandemic as an opportune moment to organize on behalf of policies that ensure the universal reach of economic and social security.

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Eviction and Voter Turnout: The Political Consequences of Housing Instability

Politics & Society ◽

10.1177/00323292211050716 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003232922110507

Author(s):

Gillian Slee ◽

Matthew Desmond

Keyword(s):

Voter Turnout ◽

Causal Effect ◽

Additive Model ◽

The United States ◽

Data Set ◽

Endogeneity Bias ◽

Political Consequences ◽

Housing Costs ◽

Election Results ◽

The Impact

In recent years, housing costs have outpaced incomes in the United States, resulting in millions of eviction filings each year. Yet no study has examined the link between eviction and voting. Drawing on a novel data set that combines tens of millions of eviction and voting records, this article finds that residential eviction rates negatively impacted voter turnout during the 2016 presidential election. Results from a generalized additive model show eviction’s effect on voter turnout to be strongest in neighborhoods with relatively low rates of displacement. To address endogeneity bias and estimate the causal effect of eviction on voting, the analysis treats commercial evictions as an instrument for residential evictions, finding that increases in neighborhood eviction rates led to substantial declines in voter turnout. This study demonstrates that the impact of eviction reverberates far beyond housing loss, affecting democratic participation.

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