Research
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The purpose of the Research Department is to provide the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to develop affordable-housing policy in Israel. The Research Department collects and analyzes new data regarding housing and also reviews existing data from Israel and abroad. The Research Department employs a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together economic, legal, planning and social knowledge.
The Department provides research support for the Center's other departments. It works in conjunction with the Community Department to analyze initiatives already operating on the ground and it provides the Policy Department with the data it needs to draft informed housing policies.
The Research Department operates on three main levels: 1. Editing and publishing studies and policy papers; 2. Organizing events such as workshops, seminars and conferences; 3. Supporting think tanks and other research projects. |
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Why is there no long-term rental market in Israel?
The Affordable Housing Center and the the Alrov Institute for Real Estate Research at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Management set up a multidisciplinary working group of students and researchers from the Faculty of Law, the School of Economics and the Depatment of Geography to address the question: "Why is there no long-term rental market in Israel?"
The working group decided to write a policy paper focused on the evaluation of current government policies. |
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Role of Residents in the Advancement of Urban Regeneration A survey of selected models from around the world
In Israel, urban regeneration processes are challenged at all times by a system of reciprocal relations between three main actors: residents, developers and the local authority. Tensions derived from this triangle negatively affect the ability of these processes to provide appropriate answers to residents’ needs and lead to difficulties in the implementation of plans that have received official approval, as well as delays in planning, permitting and construction.
In collaboration with the Planning Department of the City of Tel Aviv-Yafo, the AHC conducted a research that present a range of models that have been developed around the world in which local authorities and residents play roles different than those they usually play today in Israel.
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Models of partial ownership
A background document for developing government policy promoted by The Affordable Housing Center. The document presents new models of ownership currently applied in different countries in the world that can contribute to helping residents of Israel enter the home ownership market.
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Research into Rental Housing The AHC completed a research project conducted in cooperation with a start-up company that has developed a rental-housing website called Dfrent. That study was based on a comparative survey of rental markets in six cities around the world, in which we examined regulatory aspects of renting an apartment (supervision of rental prices, landlord–tenant obligations), the scope and nature of the rental market (short term, long term, share of the total housing market) and other parameters. French-, German- and English-speaking students from the international program of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanities took part in this work. The survey revealed large differences between rental markets in different cities. Alongside common trends and characteristics, such as increasing demand for urban housing and rising housing prices, stark differences can be seen in the regulation that underlies the different housing markets. In practice, this leads to significant differences in most of the parameters examined in this work.
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Urban Regeneration and the Elderly We are currently hard at work on a research project that is being carried out in cooperation with the Welfare Ministry, which is focused on the position of elderly populations in urban-regeneration processes and aims to evaluate and propose practices that will allow the elderly to enjoy the fruits of urban regeneration and to reduce the harm that may be done by such processes. This research is being supervised by a steering committee comprised of representatives of different ministries. The research should be completed in September 2017. |
