The ENergy Roof

This report describes the development of the ENergy Roof: a new concept for the Nul-op-de-Meter (NoM) renovation of single family dwellings in the Netherlands. The ENergy Roof consists of innovative technology, namely a solar assisted heat pump (SAHP) connected to photovoltaic solar panels that operates as evaporator (PV-DX). Furthermore the...

The Baby and the Bath Water

In de wandelgangen van de faculteit komt de toekomstige internationalisering regelmatig voorbij. Om in een later stadium daadwerkelijk beslissingen te kunnen maken over de verengelsing van de bachelor, is discussie nodig. Eerder publiceerde Bnieuws een gesprek tussen Directeur Onderwijs Roberto Cavallo en toenmalig voorzitter van de Facultaire...

Flexibilisering van de woningmarkt: Lessen uit het buitenland

Onderzoek uitgevoerd in opdracht van Platform 31 (in samenwerking met Corpovenista en het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).

Institutional investment in social rental housing: France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom explored

In the United Kingdom, social landlords are facing decreasing governmental financial support for them to fulfil their role in the provision of social housing, which has led to increasing pressure on them to rely on private capital. Traditionally, bank loans were the main source of private capital, but after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and...

Social innovation and social economy: A new framework in the Spanish housing context

The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new theoretical framework to the Spanish housing studies. This article combines different traditions and different frameworks (social innovation, social economy), in order to position the crisis of evictions in Spain and the emergence of housing co-operatives in a new theoretical context. In the first...

Urban Housing Policy Review of China: From Economic Growth to Social Inclusion

This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed...

The Janus Face of Homeownership-based Welfare

This paper reflects on the different faces of asset-based welfare from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. It shows that asset-based welfare can be perceived as a lever for welfare state restructuring but also as an instrument for poverty eradication. In most countries, asset-based welfare policies focus on stimulating home...

TENLAW: Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe. National Report for France

Urban housing policy review of China: From economic growth to social inclusion

This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed...

Focus groups: Theory and practice

Responses of European housing systems to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)

Analisis multiescalar de la burbuja inmobiliaria y los desahucios: La Comunidad Autonoma de Euskadi en el contexto estatal y europeo / Multi-scalar analysis of housing bubble and repossessions: The Basque Autonomous Community in the Spanish and European context

Plans, words and their meanings

The discipline of urbanism has its own notions; words with specific meanings, which are used by designers, policymakers and laymen to designate the concrete objects in the world around them: the parts of the city and the urban landscape, and their designs. These plans are always accompanied by written explanations of the designers, critical...

Affordable rental housing produced by private rental landlords: The case of France

Various countries have developed financial incentives that are intended to boost the construction of affordable rental housing by private actors. Some of these incentives come together with conditions with regard to rent setting and the income of the prospective tenants. Usually these conditions last for a specific period of time, typically ten...