Review of international evidence on affordable housing supply

This report focuses on affordable housing supply. The key questions addressed in each of the twelve policy reviews are:
• What effective international poverty alleviation policies, programs, and interventions exist?
• What are the key or common characteristics/standards and features of these different approaches?

The questions are addressed by providing:
• The Welsh context of each policy area and main initiatives being undertaken by the Welsh Government;
• Detailed information on the relationship between the policy area and poverty and social exclusion;
• A summary of evidence of lived experience, which could help to understand how people may experience and respond to policy interventions;
• An overview of the international evidence of policy effectiveness (including  case studies); and
• Challenges and facilitating factors associated with policy implementation.

• There are connections between affordable housing supply and policy areas covered in other reviews, for instance:
o Fuel poverty: The wider affordability of housing is closely associated with its energy efficiency.
o Transport disadvantage:

Housing location and access to transport, employment, and key services matter in relation to affordability. Trade-offs between the affordability of housing and the affordability of transport can undermine efforts to tackle poverty and social exclusion. Food insecurity; Digital exclusion; and Household debt: Housing costs bear significantly on household resources, affecting expenditure on other essentials as well as risks of falling into debt.

The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) was commissioned by the Welsh Government to conduct a review of international poverty and social exclusion strategies, programs, and interventions. As part of this work, the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the LSE was commissioned to conduct a review of the international evidence on promising policies and programs designed to reduce poverty and social exclusion across twelve key policy areas. This report focuses on affordable housing supply.

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