The impact of housing consumption value on the spatial distribution of welfare

The measure of a household's income should include not only monetary components but also non-monetary components and in-kind benefits, such as imputed rent. Imputed rent is the rent an owner can expect to receive were the house on the rental market. This study examined the impact of net imputed...

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Published inJournal of housing economics Vol. 43; pp. 118 - 130
Main Authors Kilgarriff, Paul, Charlton, Martin, Foley, Ronan, O'Donoghue, Cathal
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.03.2019
Subjects
Data interpolation
Housing
Inequality
Microsimulation
Spatial analysis
D63
RTB
Microsimulation
GDA
CBI
SA
LTV
R20
LPT
SMILE
CSO
C31
QS
D31
ECB
Data interpolation
C15
RMA
Spatial analysis
DoHPLG
SILC
Housing
GIS
R31
SAPS
SWITCH
IPF
Inequality
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Summary:The measure of a household's income should include not only monetary components but also non-monetary components and in-kind benefits, such as imputed rent. Imputed rent is the rent an owner can expect to receive were the house on the rental market. This study examined the impact of net imputed rent on the distribution of income in a spatial context. The spatial impact of net imputed rent, mortgage payments, private rent, public rent (social housing schemes) and reverse mortgage/annuity on the spatial distribution of disposable income was examined for the year 2011. A spatial microsimulation model, simulated model of the Irish local economy (SMILE), was used to simulated disposable income at a detailed spatial scale. Rental and property values are estimated at a spatial scale adopting the kriging methodology. The created rental and property data were merged into the SMILE simulated dataset to examine the impact of housing on the spatial distribution of disposable income at a small area level. Results show that the imputed cash flows from property ownership decreases the income share of those at the bottom of the income distribution and is inequality increasing, except in the case of those aged 65 +. Spatially the benefits of housing are greatest in urban areas where property values are highest. The small area measurements of imputed rent highlight the dis-equalising impact imputed rent and housing wealth has on inequality; the rich being able to consume more housing. [Display omitted]
ISSN:1051-1377
1096-0791
DOI:10.1016/j.jhe.2018.11.002