Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper focu...

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Main Author:	Seitz, William
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	INTERNAL MIGRATION URBANIZATION HOUSING AFFORDABILITY PROPISKA URBAN HOUSING REGISTRATION POLICY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33156

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spelling	okr-10986-331562022-09-20T00:12:33Z Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan Seitz, William INTERNAL MIGRATION URBANIZATION HOUSING AFFORDABILITY PROPISKA URBAN HOUSING REGISTRATION POLICY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper focuses on two factors that prevent domestic mobility: (i) restrictive propiska registration policies, and (ii) the exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up the cost of living to as much as 550 percent of the national average, levels severely unaffordable for almost all rural residents. But the proposed government reforms in 2019 to address these challenges are very popular. The results show that about 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are referenced in randomly assigned vignettes. However, views may also be sensitive to perceptions of fairness. Recent high-profile involuntary demolitions coincided with a doubling of the share responding that policies are unfair. The increase was further associated with declining optimism and lower support for the wider government national development program, beyond urbanization issues. 2020-01-09T18:14:57Z 2020-01-09T18:14:57Z 2020-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33156 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9107 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Uzbekistan
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description	Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper focuses on two factors that prevent domestic mobility: (i) restrictive propiska registration policies, and (ii) the exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up the cost of living to as much as 550 percent of the national average, levels severely unaffordable for almost all rural residents. But the proposed government reforms in 2019 to address these challenges are very popular. The results show that about 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are referenced in randomly assigned vignettes. However, views may also be sensitive to perceptions of fairness. Recent high-profile involuntary demolitions coincided with a doubling of the share responding that policies are unfair. The increase was further associated with declining optimism and lower support for the wider government national development program, beyond urbanization issues.
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author	Seitz, William
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title	Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
title_short	Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
title_full	Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
title_fullStr	Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
title_full_unstemmed	Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
title_sort	free movement and affordable housing : public preferences for reform in uzbekistan
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33156
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Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan

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