Title:
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Immigration and housing: rethinking the role of fiscal policies to manage diversity
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Author:
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Vega García, Alberto; Marco Peñas, Ester; Macho Pérez, Ana Belén; Agulló Agüero, Antonia
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Other authors:
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Abstract:
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We study the two key social issues of immigration and housing in light/nof each other and analyse which housing policies work best to distribute/ndiversity (racial, economic, cultural) equally across our cities and towns. In/nparticular, we compare the impact of direct government expenditure and/ntax incentives on the housing conditions of immigrants in four European/ncountries: France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. The analysis/nshows that the different policies which have been adopted in these countries/nhave not succeeded in preventing immigrants from being concentrated/nin certain neighbourhoods. The reason is that housing benefits and/ntax incentives are normally “spatially blind”. In our opinion, governments/nshould consider immigration indirectly in their housing policies and, for/ninstance, distribute social housing more evenly across different areas to/npromote sustainable levels of diversity. |
Abstract:
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This work is part of the research project “Fiscal policy, immigration and housing” (SEJ2006-13832), directed by Prof. Dr. Antonia Agulló Agüero and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and the European Social Fund (grant BES-2008-003252). |
Subject(s):
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-Immigrants -- Europa --Condicions socials -Immigrants -- Europa -- Política governamental -Gran Bretanya -- Política de l'habitatge -França -- Política de l'habitatge -Alemanya -- Política de l'habitatge -Immigration -Housing -Diversity -Fiscal Benefits -Segregation |
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© CIDOB. Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, 2011. Published version available at http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/29879/356074/file/MONOGRAFIA+GRITIM+2011.pdf |
Document type:
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Book Part Article - Published version |
Published by:
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Centre d'Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona (CIDOB); Grup de Recerca Interdisciplinari sobre Immigració (GRITIM-UPF)
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