Housebuilding, demographic change and affordability as outcomes of local planning decisions: Exploring interactions using a sub-regional model of housing markets in England

Progress in Planning

Volumn 104, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-35

  Bramley, Glen ^a   Watkins, David ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing affordability; Housing markets; Localism; Planning; Sub regional market models

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; HOUSING MARKET; LABOR MARKET; LOCAL PLANNING; MODELING;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84937510196     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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