• EU, Europe:

• Private Renting in Europe: Are institutions the answer? By Kathleen Scanlon, London School of Economics
  
  
• Housing Europe Review 2011/2012, by CECODHAS
  
  
• Housing Statistics in the EU, 2010
  
  
• RICS, European Housing Review 2010
  
  
• Tenancy Law and Procedure in the EU
  
  
• Eurostat Report: The social situation in the EU 2009.  (Chapter 3: Housing in the EU) Feb. 2010
  
  
• Housing statistics from Eurostat
  
  

• - Europe in Figures Eurostat yearbook 2009.
  (6. Living conditions and welfare, incl. housing)
  pdf 20 Mb
  
  - L’Europe en chiffres, L’annuaire d’Eurostat 2009
  (6. Les conditions de vie et le bien-être, incl. le logement) pdf 20 Mb
  
  - Europa in Zahlen, Eurostat Jahrbuch 2009.
  (6. Lebensbedingungen und Wohlfahrt, incl Wohnen)
  pdf 20 Mb

• Consumers in Europe, Eurostat Statistical Yearbook 2009. (4. Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels)
  pdf 12 Mb

• Social Housing in Europe, 2007, Pdf
  Edited by Christine Whitehead and Kathleen Scanlon
  
  
• Social housing in the European Union
  CECODHAS report and review of social, co-operative and public housing in the 27 EU Member states”, 2007.
  - English,
  
  - français,
   
• Incentives for Housing Production. 15 European cities compared, 2006, by the City of Amsterdam. Available as pdf-file, click here
  
  
• Living conditions in Europe. Statistical pocketbook - Data 2002-2005
   
• The share of the rental sector in western Europe, (and USA, Canada, Australia and New Zeeland.)
   
• The share of rental sector in Central and East Europe
   
• Regular national report on Housing Developments in European Countries. Synthesis Report Nov. 2004.
   
• Social Housing in the EU, report by CECODHAS. March 2005.

•Construction

• Construction Prices in Europe, from Eurostat 2007
  See also Fig; Price levels for construction in Europe, 2007

• Statistics from EU Presidencies:

• Housing Statistics in the EU 2005/2006
• Housing Statistics in the EU 2004
• Housing Statistics in the EU 2003
• Housing Statistics in the EU 2002
   
• Housing consumption as share of total household consumption, 1980-2003 (EU)
• Average housing cost as % of household income, 1994-2000 (EU)
   
• EU report on Access to Housing, September 2000
  L´accès au logement en Europe, 66 pages with lots of up-dated   
  statistics and facts.
  French version - en Français
  English version
   
• Housing policies in the EU, 2000
  French version - en Français
  English version
  German version - im Deutsch
   

• VAT rates applicable in EU member States, 2005:

• in English
• en français
• auf Deutsch

• Tenancy Law and Procedure in the EU and Tenancy Law.
   Reports by country.
   
• Housing in Europe, rental as % of total stock (IUT)
   
• Single person households in Europe, 2003
   

• The UN-ECE-region:

• Country profilers on the housing sector
  (Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Romania, Moldova, Albania, Armenia, Russia, Serbia, and Georgia)
  
• Private households by Household Type, Measurement, Country and Year.
  
• One person households by Age, Sex, Country and Year
  
• Main characteristics of housing assistance, housing     allowance schemes, housing subsidies, and social housing provision, 2001
   

• The World, except Europe:

• Western Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zeeland: The rental sector in %
  
  
• USA: Homeownership 1994-2002: Rates by Race and  Ethnicity of Householder.
  

• Australia and New Zealand

• Australian Rental in context, 2006

• Trinidad and Tobago:
  - Housing Development Corporation (social housing)
  - Ministry of Housing
   

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• Housing in Europe, various countries

• England:

• London Housing Strategy, Mayor of London May 2009

• Growing up in social housing. A profile of four generations, 1946 to the present day

• Roof magazine, England : www.roofmag.org.uk

• Shelter: Shelter's vision is that everyone should have a home - somewhere decent, safe, affordable and permanent: www.shelter.org.uk

• The Leeds rent strike in 1914

• The hidden history of English tenants

• Legal advice in London? Check out services from the College of law;
  Help tenants with housing problems such as rent arrears, disrepair, return of deposits...Click here.

• Renting in London: Know your Rights and Responsibilities (booklet)
  
   

• Austria: Vienna Housing research, and events, 2005.
   
• Czech Republic: Czech Gov. report 2004; Human Settlements profile.
   
• Finland: Facts and Figures from Statistics Finland, 2010
   
• Greece: Rent law in Greece
   
• Hungary: Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop Dec. 2002.
   
• Ireland: Irish Council for Social Housing: www.icsh.ie/housing/view.html,
  including a general description of Irish housing.
   
• Lithuania: Housing overview + about housing financing, OECD workshop, Dec. 2002
   
• Macedonia: Housing facts and figures, 2006
   
• Moldova: Country Profile on the Housing Sector of Republic of Moldova, 2002
   
• the Netherlands: Dutch Housing in a nut-shell, from AEDES 2003
   
• Norway
  • Rental market survey, 2007
  • House Prices 2007
  • Conflict resolution between landlords and tenants in Norway, 2007
  • Norway, statistics 1990/2001 - tenure
     
• Romania: Country Profile on the Housing Sector of Romania, 2001
   
• Serbia: Housing report 2007
   
• Spain: UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing visited Spain in November 2007
   
• Sweden:
  • Rents in Sweden, 2008
  • Marker rents, or not? Housing reform proposal stoke debate, April 18, 2008.
  • State of Swedish Housing 2007, report.
  • Swedish Association of Municipal Housing Companies, SABO. Facts and figures 2007.
     
• Switzerland: Housing report, December 2007, click here
   

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 • Western Europe
+ USA, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland

NB; For more USA Facts & Figures, go to Members USA and
Click here for more references.

The share of the rental sector, < 1999, and 2000 > 
(in % of the total housing stock)   Last update: 2012-02-03   

Total rental < 2000
in %

of which is Social,
in %

 7 (-08)

36 % (-94)
32 % (-00)
30 % (-06)
32 % (-08)

36 %  (-99)
35 %  (-02)
31 % (-06)

*13, 21, 22: Reg. National Reports on Housing Developments in European Countries, 2004: Department of the Environment. , Heritage and Local Government. Rep. of Ireland. In cooperation with The Housing Unit, Dublin.

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• Housing in USA

• US Federal housing agency, HUD, awards $1.9 billion to improve the nation’s public housing stock, July 12, 2011.
  
  
• America's Rental Housing, Meeting Challenges, Building opportunities, Harvard Univ. 2011
  
  
• Out of Reach, 2011. Today more than 38 million households rent their homes, 1.9 million more than in 2007. The current rate of homeownership (66.5%) is now at the lowest level since 1998. And with the foreclosure crisis and recession on the one hand and the aging of the baby boom and the coming of age of the echo boom on the other, the demand for rental housing is only projected to grow.
  
  
• Rent Stabilization and Rent Control in New York, 2012
• New York Housing Court 2011, Q:s & A:s
• State of the Nation's Housing, 2010
• National Alliance of HUD Tenants, NAHT, website
  - NAHT press release for Tenants Day 2008
• San Francisco: About housing and SFTU, 2008
• Harlem, NY, and low income Tenants, GT April 2008
• New York housing 2006, GT April 2006
• Illinois Tenants Union, 2006
• New Jersey Tenants Organisation, 2006
  
  Fore more info see also:
  - USA statistics
  - USA members

Homeownership in the USA
 Rates by Race and Ethnicity of Householder

NOTE: n.a. = not applicable.

1. Beginning in 1996, those answering “other” for race were allocated to one of the 4 race categories—white, black, American Indian, Aleut, or Eskimo (one category), or Asian or Pacific Islander.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Web: www.census.gov.

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Housing in Asia
 
See also IUT Members Asia

• Tenure forms, and distribution in South East Asia, 2004
• Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research
• Global Tenant magazine, about Houisng in South East Asia, 2004
• UN Habitat Fukuoka office, in Japan.
• Housing in the Pacific: Information from ESCAP on housing - please, go to Chapter III
  
   

China, Peoples's Republic
 

• 适足住房权实情表 (Fact Sheet on the right to adequate housing)
• Reports on tenants compulsory, June 16 2009
• Shanghai: Affordable housing plan on the way. Feb. 25 2009
• Commercial affordability in Beijing, 2004
• Housing affordability in Shanghai, 2004
• Urban migrants in Gungzhou, 2004

• Housing Tenure Choice in Transitional Urban China: A Multilevel Analysis, by Youqin Huang and William A. V. Clark, 2001-2002.
  
  
   

Hong Kong
 

• The first step on the housing ladder; A natural experiment in Honk Kong, 2008/2009

• Hong Kong: The Facts about Housing, 2008

• HK government's housing policy, 2007
  

• More about policies on Public Housing
• Housing facts, and figures
• Graphic presentation of HK housing 2007
• The Hong Kong Housing Authority Exhibition Centre

• Public Housing in HK, from Housing & Dev. Board in Singapore, 2000

• General Housing Policies on Application for Public Housing in HK

• The genealogy of Hong Kong Public housing, 2004.
• A new direction for Public Housing in HK, by Citizens party, 2001

Israel

• Rental housing in Israel, 2004

Lebanon

• - Characteristics of Housing and Households
  - Executive Summary of full report, and years of survey

Malaysia

• Removing the stigma of public housing, Dec. 2011
• New town and low cost Housing Development in Malaysia, 2004
  

Singapore

• Singapore's public housing system, March 2011
• Singapore Social Housing, 2007
• Impact of Public Housing Upgrading on Residents, 2004.
• Public Housing in Singapore, a 1994 Student research.
   

South Korea

• Rental housing in South Korea, 2005
• Korea National Housing Corporation

Taiwan

• Public housing prioritised, Feb. 25 2011

• How to manage modern public housing, March 11 2011

Vietnam

• Need for more low income housing in Vietnam, 2009
• To Own or to Rent?  2004
• The development of the housing sector in Vietnam, 1999.
   

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Japan

• Present (1998) housing situation
  Source: A quick look at Housing in Japan, 1998, The Building Center of Japan.
  In 1993 the housing vacancy was 9,8 %. Out of these 9,8 % - only 23 % of the vacant housing fulfil the Minimum Housing Standards, according to the Vacant Housing Research conducted in Tokyo and Osaka in 1990. The rest of the housing is unsuitable to live in because they are too small, too old, or under repair or reconstruction.
  The percentage of owner-occupied housing began to increase in 1973, reaching 62,4 % in 1983. But it declined in 1988 to 61,3 %. It declined further to 59,8 in 1993, affected by the skyrocketing of land prices.
  The percentage of owner-occupied housing is in the major metropolitan areas 51,8 %, and 66,7 % in the rest of the country. The percentage of detached houses is decreasing, and was 59,2 % in 1993. The number of collective housing units, however, continues to increase.
  Source: A quick look at Housing in Japan, 1998, The Building Center of Japan
   

• Housing policy in Japan
  The Government Housing Loan Corporation was set up in 1950 to provide long-term, low-interest funds to those who were going to construct or purchase houses.
  In 1951 the Publicly Operated Housing Act was established, thereby enabling local governments to supply low-rent public housing, subsidised by central government.
  To cope with the housing shortage resulting from the population concentration into large areas, the Japan Housing Corporation was set up to supply housing and building lots to workers in metropolitan areas. The above three systems were mainstays of the public-fund housing supply in Japan.
  In addition, the Local Housing Supply Corporation Act was established in 1965, which prescribes that prefectures as well as metropolitan regions suffering from housing shortage should supply good quality housing and lots to workers.
  The housing policy has developed with these main systems as its cores.
   

• Japan: Changes in the percentage of different types of tenure:
   

  	1963	1973	1983	1993	1993,a	1993,b
  Owner occupied housing:	64,3 %	59,3 %	62,4 %	59,8 %	51,8 %	66,7 %
  Rented public housing:	4,6 %	6,9 %	7,6 %	7,1 %	8,0 %	6,1 %
  Rented private housing,c:	15,3 %	22,1 %	21,7 %	25,6 %	29,7 %	21,4 %
  Rented private housing,d:	8,8 %	5,3 %	2,8 %	0,8 %	1,2 %	0,5 %
  Company-supplied employee housing:	7,0 %	6,4 %	5,2 %	5,0 %	5,6 %	4,5 %
  Unknown:	0 %	0 %	0,3 %	1,7 %	2,7 %	0,8 %

  a) The three major metropolitan areas  b)Other areas  c)With exclusive facilities  d)With shared facilities        Page top     Home                                                                         Housing in Australia NB. for more Facts & Figures, go to "Members Australia" Members - Australia (five tenant associations) Associated members - Australia - New Zealand Non members in Australia National Social Housing Survey, by AIHW, Oct. 2011 Housing Australia factsheet, from Shelter NSW, February 2011 A profile of social housing in Australia, 2010 Australian housing in context, 2006, by Prof. T. Burke, Pdf Global Tenant magazine, Australia, Jan. 2007, in Pdf Indigenous people and tenure forms 2001, Pdf Australian housing situation and tenant law; by Penny Carr at the IUT congress 2007 Public Rental Housing 2005-06 UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing concludes his visit to Australia.  Hidden national housing crisis, 2006 Tenancy in Australia, 2004 Public Housing in Australia is in decline, 2003 Australian housing system, 1999 Queensland Department of Housing Articles: More people need affordable housing in Australia, Jan. 28, 2008 Anglicare Australia says housing affordability and rental access will be key underlying issues for many voters in the upcoming federal election, Sept. 5 2007 Rewards flagged for good public tenants. Sept. 5, 2007 NZ Housing in New Zealand New Zealand: Centre for Housing Research Length of tenure, plus homeownership rates 1996-2011 N-Z department of Building and Housing Wellington, N-Z, Housing Trust 2001 Census snapshot on Housing Articles: State House queue grows. Manawatu Standard, Jan. 9, 2007   Page top     Home     Housing in Canada Canada at a glance, 2011, with Housing (page 9) Homeownership - rentals in Canada, census 2006 Changing Patterns in Canadian Homeownership and Shelter Costs, from Census 2006 Homeownership in Canada, 2006 Tenant organisations: Vancouver: Provincial Tenant's Rights Action Coalition, British Colombia, TRAC Suite # 306 535, Thurlow Street Vancouver, BC  V6E 3L2 Tel: +1 604 255 3099, Fax: +1 604 255 0772 E-mail: info@tenants.bc.ca Website: www.tenants.bc.ca Ontario Tenants Rights A web guide to Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Act, the Residential Tenancies Act, tenants' rights, social justice, and rental housing issues such: as finding apartments for rent, high-rise safety and security, mice, cockroaches, pigeons, and "toxic mould". www.ontariotenants.ca/   Toronto, Ontario: Federation of Metro Tenants' Assoc. 27 Carlton Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1L2 e-mail: hotline@torontotenants.org Website: www.torontotenants.org   Quebec: - Le Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ) - Renting in Quebec: Info. from Canada Mortgage and Housing Federation Montreal: Arnold Bennett's Housing Hotline, "carries the torch for tenant rights  in Montreal." Offers legal help to tenants. 1440 Stanley St. Montreal, QC, H3A 1P7  Tel.: 514-488-0412 or 514-990-0190 From the News: Rent-increase notice time to double, Nov 20 2008 More tenant links in Canada: The Social Housing Services Corporation (SHSC) Information about landlord and tenant relations, laws, rights, etc. Toronto profile, 2006: Rental housing Supply and Demand indicators Ontario Tenants Rights Co-operative housing federation of Canada Housing facts Vancouver, pdf Housing and dwelling characteristics, from Statistics Canada National Working Group on Women and Housing Resources for Ottawa tenants Why set up a tenant organisation?   Rental housing sector in Canada, in comparison     Total rental of total housing market, and year, in %. Social housing of total rental, in % Renters in major cities, in % Canada 37, 1991 36, 1996 34, 2001 31, 2006     Toronto: 49 Vancouver: 35 Quebec: 41 Montreal: 47 Ottawa: 33 (all in in 2006) Source, click here! USA 36, 1994 35, 2002 30, 2006 32, 2008   New York: 56 (-05) Australia 27 (-06)     U.K. 30, 2004 21, 2004 London: 44 (-06) private:24, social:20 Sweden 44, 2006 22 (public) 2006 Stockholm: 49 (-04) Netherlands 44, 2006 80, 2003 Amsterdam:83 (-01) Germany 54, 2006 6 (2006 Berlin: 88 (-04)

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Housing and Young Adults

• Situation worldwide - condensed, by IUT, 2011

• Facts & News on Affordable Rental Housing for the Young from IUT

• Average age when young adults in Europe leave
  parental home, Eurostat 2009

• Reasons why young people, 15-30, live longer with parents. Eurobarometer on Young people, 2007

• Share of those aged 18-34 still living with their parents in the EU, in 2008.

• EU: 51 million young EU adults lived with their parent(s) in 2008, from Eurostat 

• Youth in Europe, Eurostat 2009

• Youth unemployment, 2011

• Overcrowding, youth unemployment and share of young living with parents, 2008/2009

• Italy: Report on housing in the context of youth emancipation, Sept. 2011

• Canada:
  - Figures on Young Adults living w. parents
  - Young people’s access to home ownership, 2007

• UK: Housing Tenure choices by Youth; 2006

• UK: Young people and housing in 2020: Identifying key drivers for change, Nov. 2010, from JR foundation
  

 In the media:

• Sweden:
  - Unemployed young adults often live with their parents. SCB, May 3, 2011
  - Stockholm: Young people pushed aside on the housing market, June 30, 2011

• Scotland: Young Scots face housing squeeze, Febr. 2, -11

• Japan: Young adults in Japan

• Australia: Many youths living in social housing, Dec. 6, -11

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