Print Email Facebook Twitter The Clients Choice Programme: Perceptions of housing associations and tenants Part of: Conference Building on home ownership: housing policies and social strategies· list the conference papers Title The Clients Choice Programme: Perceptions of housing associations and tenants Author Zijlstra, S. Gruis, V. Date 2008-11-13 Abstract Papers workshops In the Netherlands, several housing associations have started offering a major part of their housing stock with a purchase option. This allows tenants of new and existing dwellings to choose between entering into a standard tenancy contract and purchasing the dwelling. Sales options often have the possibility of offering a discount, provided that the dwelling is sold back to the housing association if the dwelling is vacated. Housing experts expect many positive effects of what is referred to as Clients Choice programmes. However, many of the effects have as yet not been completely evaluated. In this paper, we will evaluate several effects based on tenants opinions. We will discuss the results of interviews held with tenants of two neighbourhoods in which the Clients Choice programme has been carried out for several years. The interviews have shown that tenants generally appreciate having the option of purchasing their dwelling, but that their expectations of and experiences with the positive (side) effects of the Clients Choice programme differ from those of the management of housing associations. Subject freedom of choice, social housing, tenure, empowerment, Te Woon To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:afb5aeae-ce30-4875-89c7-b85eac31eca8 Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2008 Zijlstra, S.; Gruis, V. Files PDF Zijlstra_Gruis.pdf 88.07 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:afb5aeae-ce30-4875-89c7-b85eac31eca8/datastream/OBJ/view