Affordability

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).

Dutch mortgage arrears and the role of the global financial crisis

As in many countries, the Dutch housing market was severely hit by the recent financial crisis. Following the recession, the average house price in the Netherlands fell by almost 25% and the proportion of homeowners with mortgage payment arrears nearly doubled. In this paper, we study mortgage payment arrears in the Netherlands and investigate...

Digging deeper: Public housing in Ghana managed by local authorities

In the 1980s, the government of Ghana decided to withdraw from direct housing provision. In lieu of this, the two main institutions through which government provided and managed public housing – the TDC and SHC sold off most of their dwellings. The few remaining dwellings were transferred to local authorities to own and manage. There have been...

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...

Demand and supply of labour in the housing sector

The housing sector is large and significant in all aspects of human life, making the task of the policy-maker especially complex. Homes constitute the largest single land use in the ‘built environment’, they are generally the largest single item of expenditure in household budgets and the largest form of household wealth, and they are...

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...

Wonen 6.0: Over de toekomst van de sociale huisvesting in Nederland

Concentreer je op sociale kerntaken, verhuur een beperkt aantal corporatiewoningen in de marktsector, benoem een onafhankelijke extern toezichthouder en bevorder het zelfbeheer van huurders. Dat zijn de belangrijkste aanbevelingen van zes hoogleraren volkshuisvesting van de TU Delft voor een nieuw corporatiebeleid.

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...

Home ownership: Getting in, getting from, getting out. Part III

This book provides an overview of the effects of home ownership, a housing sector that has grown rapidly in recent years in many countries, not least because this is normally encouraged by governments. The first part of the subtitle, ‘Getting in’, refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access,...

Spanningen tussen sociale huisvesting en Europese regulering

Europese regulering voor bevordering van marktwerking heeft in verschillende landen geleld tot jurisprudentie over de voorziening in sociale huisvesting. Veelal wordt erop gewezen dat dit leidt tot spanningen tussen nationaal en Europees beleid, met de Nederlandse corporatiesector als prominent voorbeeld. Analyse van de beschikbare zaken wijst...

Verbinden wateropgave met ruimtelijke ordeningsopgave: Deelprogramma nieuwbouw en herstructurering

De Deltabeslissing Ruimtelijke Adaptatie richt zich op het verbinden van de wateropgave met ruimtelijke opgaven in gebieden en het op een kwalitatief goede manier ruimte maken voor water. Om deze beslissing te kunnen onderbouwen, werkt het Deltaprogramma Nieuwbouw en Herstructurering langs twee inhoudelijke sporen: ruimtelijke inrichting en...