An assessment of sustainable housing affordability using a multiple criteria decision making method
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Frequently Asked Questions (10)
Q2. What are the main challenges facing the UK and many other countries?
Currently affordable housing and sustainable development are major challenges facing the UK and many other countries across the globe.
Q3. What is the common way to measure housing affordability?
Comparing the relationship between housing expenditure and household income is the most common way to define and measure housing affordability internationally [7, 8, 9].
Q4. What is the purpose of the MCDM assessment method?
The MCDM assessment method can assist stakeholders in making more accurate and comprehensive decisions concerning affordability, reflecting the quality and sustainability of a housing location, rather than focusing exclusively on housing costs and incomes.
Q5. What is the main purpose of this paper?
The paper presents a tool that can be used to assess sustainable housing affordability, which is based on a criteria system developed by the authors and validated by professionals.
Q6. What are the main factors that influence a household’s perception of affordability?
quality, location and access to services and facilities appear to be important considerations directly related to a household’s perception of affordability.
Q7. What could be used to select sites for affordable housing development?
local authorities and investors could use the tool to select sites for affordable housing development between competing locations.
Q8. What are the main factors that influence affordability?
Their study looks at affordability in terms of a bundle of attributes an area possesses, such as school quality, job accessibility and safety.
Q9. What are the main reasons for the use of housing cost to income ratios?
Housing cost to income ratios are extensively applied to measure affordability in the UK and other European countries, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and China [10, 11, 12, 13, 14].
Q10. Why does the ODPM advocate the use of the expenditure to income ratio?
This research advocates the continued use of the expenditure to income ratio due to its long tradition, ease of use and to provide continuity [18].