Housing Affordability: a Multilevel Analysis on Italian Households

Journal title SCIENZE REGIONALI
Author/s Filippa Bono, Giovanni Busetta
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/2 Language Italian
Pages 30 P. 71-100 File size 449 KB
DOI 10.3280/SCRE2010-002004
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Housing affordability is commonly defined in term of the possibility for households of purchasing or renting an appropriate house using a feasible portion of income. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of region and degree of urbanization of residential areas on housing affordability. To address this objective we estimate a three levels multilevel model: individual, household, and region using IT-EUSILC2004 data set on Italian households. Results of the analysis show that, depending on the level of income perceived, both region and degree of urbanization influence housing affordability of households.

Keywords: Home affordability, urbanization and multilevel analysis.

Jel codes: D1, D3.

Filippa Bono, Giovanni Busetta, L’accesso all’abitazione di residenza: un’analisi multilevel sulle famiglie italiane in "SCIENZE REGIONALI " 2/2010, pp 71-100, DOI: 10.3280/SCRE2010-002004