Is er ruimte voor wonen?: Reactie op het Ruimte voor Wonen-rapport

Het in april 2020 verschenen rapport Ruimte voor Wonen (RvW) maakt deel uit van de Brede Maatschappelijke Heroverwegingen van kabinet Rutte III. Over de volle breedte van de collectieve sector zijn zestien maatschappelijke opgaven geïdentificeerd, waarvoor implicaties van diverse beleidsopties in kaart worden gebracht. Het uiteindelijke doel is...

Integrating Residential Property with Private Pensions in the EU: Final report

This report and its Annex present the results of the research project “Promoting the contribution of private savings to pension adequacy: Integrating residential property with private pensions in the EU” led by iff, institute for financial services, Hamburg. Financial support by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and...

Integrating Residential Property with Private Pensions in the EU: Annex to final report 2017

This Annex together with the final report present the results of the research project “Promoting the contribution of private savings to pension adequacy: Integrating residential property with private pensions in the EU” led by iff, institute for financial services, Hamburg. Financial support by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social...

Towards inclusive service delivery through social investment in England: An analysis of five sectors with a particular focus on mental health

This report examines trends in social investment in England following the financial crisis of 2007/8. The first section considers social investment in relation to four policy arenas: housing, financial services, early childhood education and care, and water. The second part of the report provides an overview of social investment and...

Towards inclusive service markets through social investment in the EU: The case of early childhood education and care

This report provides an overview of social investment for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Europe in general and in eight of the RE-InVEST partner countries in particular - Belgium, England, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, and Scotland - employing a review of the literature, European-wide statistical analyses and...

Towards inclusive service delivery through social investment in the Netherlands: An analysis of five sectors, with particular focus on housing services

The Dutch recessions of 2009, 2012 and 2013 kicked off a series of spending cuts, which were, among others, achieved by reforms of the social security system, as well as the long-term health care system. The Netherlands placed an increasing emphasis on incentives for people to find employment, whilst access to care facilities was made more...

Towards inclusive service delivery through social investment in the EU: The Cade of housing

This report provides a qualitative overview of changes in social investment in housing in eight RE-InVEST EU-jurisdictions: Belgium, England and Scotland (in Great Britain), Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the Netherlands. Each country study analyses existing market regulations in relation to the human rights and capabilities in the basic...

Towards inclusive service delivery through social investment in the EU: The case of health services

This report aims at: (a) providing an overview of the European policy framework for health services; (b) providing a comparative analysis of this service market across the EU; and (c) performing a comparative analysis of the situations and trends in the health care sector in the eight RE-InVEST countries, so as to identify the approaches they...

Social disinvestment and vulnerable groups in Europe in the aftermath of the financial crisis: The case of households that have difficulties with making ends meet in the Netherlands

After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took office in 2012, announced that spending cuts had become inevitable. Government deficits and government debts were increasing and the country no longer complied with the requirements for a stable currency union in Europe. Therefore, the Netherlands...

Nederland: Huishoudens die moeite hebben om de eindjes aan elkaar te knopen: na de crisis

Toen Nederland in 2009 in een eerste van drie recessies belandde, konden volgens de in 2012 aangetreden VVD-PvdA regering bezuinigingen niet uitblijven, omdat overheidstekorten en overheidsschulden opliepen en onder meer niet meer voldeden aan de eisen van de stabiele muntunie in Europa. Nederland voerde omvangrijke bezuinigingen door waarbij...

House Price Risk and Sub-District House Price Dynamics: The Case of Amsterdam

The recent Global Financial Crisis has lent even greater urgency to the need for households to understand the risks and dynamics of the residential property market better. This paper uses a rich dataset on individual residential property transactions between 1995 and 2014 in Amsterdam to study the risks and the inter-dependency of house prices...

The Netherlands: Households that have difficulty with making ends meet: after the crisis

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).

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...

Research Programme 2009 - 2014: OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies

The OTB’s research covers the areas of housing, urban, mobility and geo-studies. The research activities deal with the built environment, and refer to aspects of the technological sciences, the policy and management sciences, the behavioural sciences, spatial disciplines and the application of information and communications technology. This...

Ontwerpen op het raakvlak van water en ruimte: Handreiking en voorbeelden

In deze publicatie zijn de resultaten van de zeven pilotprojecten beschreven en verbeeld. Hiermee is de leerwinst toe gankelijk voor betrokkenen bij gebiedsontwikkelingsprojecten in vergelijkbare situaties. In deel I zijn de leerpunten uit de projecten samengebracht in een beknopte hand reiking. De handreiking volgt het cyclische ontwerpproces:...

Gebiedsafspraken: Opereren in een herstructureringsnetwerk in Hordijkerveld en de Transformatiezone in Pendrecht

Corporaties hebben bij het uitvoeren van stedelijke vernieuwingstaken te maken met een netwerk van betrokken organisaties. Het functioneren daarvan en de rol van de gebiedsafspraken en het masterplan hierin vormen de kern van dit onderzoeksproject. Zij worden vanuit de bestuurskundige netwerkbenadering en vanuit de praktijk bestudeerd. Aangezien...