Editing Israeli settlement (section)

== Housing costs and state subventions ==
Settlement has an economic dimension, much of it driven by the significantly lower costs of housing for Israeli citizens living in Israeli settlements compared to the cost of housing and living in Israel proper.<ref name="maannews.net">[http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=752421 'The economics at the heart of Israel's illegal settlements,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107231439/http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=752421 |date=7 January 2015 }} [[Ma'an News Agency]] 7 January 2015.</ref> Government spending per citizen in the settlements is double that spent per Israeli citizen in [[Tel Aviv]] and [[Jerusalem]], while government spending for settlers in isolated Israeli settlements is three times the Israeli national average. Most of the spending goes to the security of the Israeli citizens living there.<ref name=Rudoren>Jodi Rudoren, Jeremy Ashkenas,[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 'Netanyahu and the Settlements,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308150413/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 |date=8 March 2021 }} ''[[The New York Times]]'', 12 March 2015: 'the government spent about $950 supporting each West Bank resident in 2014, more than double its investment in people living in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem; in isolated settlements, it was $1,483 per capita.'</ref>