Contents -- Introduction -- I: Housing Policy: a Conceptual Framework -- 1 The Enabling Approach to Governing Housing -- Enabling and Government Intervention -- Enabling and Market Failure -- Rule of Law versus Rule by Decree -- Enabling and Non-enabling as Pluralist versus Centralist Systems -- The Enabling Housing Policy Environment as a Set of Enabling Interventions -- 2 Housing as a Key Economic Sector -- 3 Housing Policy and the City -- 4 Housing Indicators as Instruments of Policy -- Measurement as an Instrument of Policy -- Housing Indicators and Composite Indices -- 5 Housing in Global Perspective -- The Globalization of Housing Policy -- The Global Survey of Housing Indicators -- 6 Measuring the Effect of Policy on Performance -- A Policy-Sensitive Model of The Housing Sector -- The Housing Market: Conditions versus Outcomes -- Modeling Prices, Quantities, and Supply and Demand -- II: The Components of an Enabling Policy Regime -- 7 The Property Rights Regime -- Property Rights in Land and Housing -- The Rationale for a Property Rights Regime -- The Development of Property Rights -- The Limits to a Property Rights Regime -- The Property Rights Index -- 8 The Housing Finance Regime -- Creating and Maintaining a Regulatory Regime for the Housing Finance Sector -- Supporting the Creation and Development of Housing Finance Institutions -- Channeling Housing Subsidies through, Or in Conjunction with, Housing Finance -- The Housing Finance Regime Index -- 9 Housing Subsidies -- The Underlying Logic of Housing Subsidies -- Supply-side Subsidies -- Demand-side Subsidies -- Price Controls -- An Enabling Housing Subsidy Regime -- The Housing Subsidies Index -- The Availability and Targeting of Subsidies -- 10 Residential Infrastructure -- Infrastructure Services and Housing Quality -- Housing, Infrastructure, and Public Health.

Infrastructure, Urban Land Development, and Housing Supply -- Housing and the Privatization of Infrastructure Services -- Housing, Infrastructure, and the Poor -- The Residential Infrastructure Index -- 11 The Regulatory Regime -- Urban Growth Controls -- Residential Zoning and Land Use Regulations -- Building Codes and Standards -- The Regulatory Regime Index -- 12 The Enabling Index -- The Construction of the Enabling Index -- The Effects of the Economic, Social, and Political Context on the Housing Policy Environment -- III: Housing Policy and Housing Sector Performance -- 13 The Economic, Social, and Political Context -- Income and the Level of Economic Development -- Politics and Society -- Demography and Geography -- The Structure of the Economy -- Financial and Fiscal Conditions -- The Development Index -- 14 The Availability of Land -- Land and Housing -- Measures of Land Availability -- The Determinants of Land Availability -- 15 Conditions in the Residential Construction Sector -- The Perspective of Builders -- Monitoring and Measurement in the Residential Construction Sector -- Construction Cost Indices -- The Determinants of Residential Construction Costs -- 16 The Availability of Mortgage Credit -- Conditions in the Housing Finance Sector -- Measuring the Availability of Mortgage Credit -- The Determinants of the Availability of Mortgage Credit -- 17 House Prices, Rents, and Affordability -- House Price, Rent, and Affordability Measures -- Modeling House Prices and Rents as Measures of Affordability -- The Determinants of House Prices and Rents Normalized by Income -- House Prices and Rents Normalized by Quality -- The Determinants of House Prices and Rents Normalized by Quality -- 18 Housing Conditions and the "Quantity" of Housing -- The Perspective of Dwellers -- An Array of Measures of Housing "Quantity".

Measuring the Supply and Demand of Housing "Quantity" -- 19 Dwelling Units and Living Space -- Unit and Space Measures of the Quantity of Housing -- The Determinants of Unit and Space Measures of Housing Quantity -- The Demand and Supply of Dwelling Units and Residential Living Space -- 20 Housing Quality -- Hedonic Measures of the Quality of Housing -- The Determinants of Quality Measures of Housing Quantity -- The Demand and Supply of Housing Quality -- 21 The Value of Housing -- Value Measures of the Quantity of Housing -- The Determinants of Value Measures of Housing Quantity -- The Demand and Supply of Value in Housing -- 22 Production and Investment, Vacancy, and Mobility -- Measures of Production and investment, Vacancy, and Mobility -- Explaining Variations in Production and Investment, Vacancy, and Mobility -- The Demand and Supply of Housing Production and Investment, Vacancy, and Mobility -- 23 Tenure -- Home Ownership -- Informal Sector Housing -- Homelessness -- Tenure Measures of Housing Quantity -- The Determinants of Tenure Measures of Housing Quantity -- The Demand and Supply of Housing Tenure -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Country (City) Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.