Informal Housing in Greece: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis at the Regional Level

• Authors: POLYZOS, Serafeim , MINETOS, Dionysios

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative level. The results of the multinomial logistic regression analysis indicate that Greek prefectures differ in the way they experience the informal housing phenomenon. An explanation for the observed differences may be the separate development paths followed and the diverse range of economic activities in each prefecture. The Greek state has not made provisions for creating the necessary ‘urban land stock’ in each prefecture, so that everyone interested can find land parcels at an affordable price. On the contrary, the state encourages the informal housing activity by legalizing large areas of such activity sporadically and by introducing legislative initiatives of limited success in dealing with the problem.

Keywords

EN

informal housing; land use changes; multinomial logistic regression; housing policy; Greece

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2014-01-22

Contributors

author

POLYZOS, Serafeim

author

MINETOS, Dionysios

other

Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3239