further work is needed to increase the coverage of spending data and validate its quality nevertheless the data available for a minority of countries suggest that the spending mix tends to favour homeownership which is often not consistent with tenureneutrality goals nor with supporting households who are most in need as they are underrepresented among owneroccupants section outlines a number of possible areas of work that can be developed to improve the availability of monitoring indicators better understand the prevailing obstacles to access to goodquality affordable housing and provide policy recommendations