Demographic Change and Housing Wealth
(DEMHOW)
Start date: Mar 1, 2008,
End date: Nov 30, 2010
PROJECT
FINISHED
DEMHOW will investigate links between demographic change and housing wealth. Whereas those who rent their homes may have no housing wealth at all, for many older Europeans - perhaps 75% of the total - housing is their single largest item of wealth But, increasing numbers do not have children to whom their wealth might be bequeathed. The potential of housing assets is that they offer: older households a way of increasing their consumption; governments a way to respond to the pension crisis;and financial institutions a way to increase business. DEMHOW will investigate the ways in which, across member states, ageing populations and housing wealth are linked, how housing wealth has been used in the past and how attitudes to its use in old age are changing. In addition, it will investigate developments in policy and in financial markets that may encourage its use as a form of pension, and assess the characteristics of housing assets as a form of pension.
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Coordinator
- Robert Fekete
- Edgbaston B15 2TT BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom)
12 Partners Participants
- Bernard Vorms
- Boulevard Saint-Martin 2 75010 Paris (France)
- José Carlos Amaral
- RUA RODRIGUES SAMPAIO 31 1150 278 LISBOA (Portugal)
- Tom Meyvis
- GERAARD DE DUIVELSTRAAT 5 9000 GENT (Belgium)
- Jens V. Kierkegaard
- CAMPUSVEJ 55 5230 ODENSE M (Denmark)
- Eliisa Särkilahti
- YLIOPISTONMAKI 20014 TURKU (Finland)
- Silke Reinold
- Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 BREMEN (Germany)
- József Hegedüs
- Lonyay utca 34 1093 BUDAPEST (Hungary)
- Marja Elsinga
- Stevinweg 1 2628 CN DELFT (Netherlands)
- Jože Glazer
- KONGRESNI TRG 12 1000 LJUBLJANA (Slovenia)
- Scott Shurtleff
- HESLINGTON YO10 5DD YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE (United Kingdom)
- Anne-Sophie Parent
- Rue Froissart 111 1040 BRUXELLES (Belgium)
- UNTER DEN LINDEN 6 10099 BERLIN (Germany)