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来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.33,Issue6,P.938-959

语言

英文

关键字

Public choice; rental housing; housing policy; HENRY GEORGE; JANE JACOBS; GATED COMMUNITIES; PRICE INDEXES; AFRICAN CITY; ACCRA; POLICY; KUMASI; MARKET; LAND

作者单位

[Owusu-Ansah, Anthony] Ghana Inst Management & Publ Adm, Business Sch, Grad Programmes, Achimota Accra, Ghana. [Ohemeng-Mensah, Derick] Ghana Inst Management & Publ Adm, Business Sch, Achimota Accra, Ghana. [Abdulai, Raymond Talinbe] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Dept Built Environm, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. [Obeng-Odoom, Franklin] Univ Technol Sydney, Sch Built Environm, Urban Econ, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Owusu-Ansah, A (reprint author), Ghana Inst Management & Publ Adm, Business Sch, Grad Programmes, Achimota Accra, Ghana. E-Mail: aowusu-ansah@gimpa.edu.gh

摘要

This paper extends both the literature on rental housing in Ghana and the global literature on the critique of public choice analyses in terms of focus, methods and positioning. It argues that, contrary to the assumption that all housing policy changes are driven by internal national processes, in the case of Ghana at least, neither tenants (through their use of their greater numbers) nor landlords (through the use of their stronger financial and hence political power) exclusively influence housing policy. Both parties have some power, but landlords use theirs to change rents arbitrarily and decide whom to invite or keep as tenants, whilst tenants seek to use their power by lodging complaints with the state, albeit to little effect as the power of landlords is overwhelming. There is a strong basis to call into question the public choice argument that it is fair for landlords to extract windfall rent from tenants since their efforts or talents do not increase rent.