The inclusive city

The inclusive city: In which status holders are no longer just statistics

Habib, Morsal (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Kupers, T.W. (mentor)
van der Putt, P.S. (mentor)
Adema, F. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Dwelling

2020-11-06

The year 2015 has become the year of migration. In total, around 60,000 people applied for asylum in the Netherlands, the highest number in the last 25 years. In addition, around 70 percent of this number has been granted a permit to stay in the Netherlands for an indefinite period of time (Dagevos & Odé, 2016). Therefore, these refugees now have become a permanent Dutch citizen. They can either be treated as an asset to Dutch society or treated as a burden for which the society must pay in order to maintain them according to the laws of humanity. However, treating them as an asset has got a long way to go, since the majority of the status holders are in a poor socio-economic position; the part of working people is low, social security dependency is alarmingly high, and a substantial part has an income below the poverty line (Dagevos & Odé, 2016). Only a small part of this large group of status holders have got a paid job during the first years of their stay. Labor participation indeed will become bigger as their stay will extend, but the group of family status holders who have come to the Netherlands in the same period as the singles, will stay behind (Bakker, 2016). Numbers show that only giving refugees a residence permit isn’t enough.These yet to be formed group of people have to be transformed and molded into an asset for the Dutch society. Data shows, that the current strategy isn’t working good enough and many of these people are still depending on the dividend from the state. This is despite the fact that so many municipalities already offer extra help to these target groups.

Dwelling
Status holders
Social housing
inclusive city

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