Naar een hervorming van de woningmarkt: Niets doen is geen optie

Mortgage equity withdrawal in Australia: Recent trends, institutional settings and perspectives

Australian tax preferences and asset test concessions have traditionally favoured wealth accumulation in the primary home, with added impetus lent by a decade-long period of sustained house price appreciation prior to the Global Financial Crisis. The primary home is increasingly viewed by governments worldwide as a key store of wealth that can...

De stand in opendataland

Teneinde een kansrijke opendatastrategie te ontwikkelen is het van belang om de bepalende factoren van open data integraal in onderling verband te bezien. Een opendata-beoordelings-raamwerk kan de basis vormen voor zo’n integrale benadering. Op basis van zo’n beoordelingsraamwerk kan een onderbouwde keuze worden gemaakt voor acties die ervoor...

Maturation of the Dutch social housing model and perspectives for the future

The Dutch social rented sector has acquired an international reputation because of its social nature and the way it has evolved. With around 32% of the total stock, the size of the sector is much bigger than in other western European countries. Also the development after the second world war is unique. This current position is deter-mined by the...

Tenants at-risk-of-poverty induced by housing expenditure – exploratory analyses with EU-SILC

Combating poverty and social exclusion is a core policy issue in the European Union (EU). The Statis-tics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database facilitates analyses of the extent of poverty and social exclusion. One of the indicators built from the database is the at-risk-of-poverty indicator. Applied to households, it indicates...

Financial institutions have owner-occupancy in a stranglehold: An explanation for the recession in the Dutch housing market

Like many other West-European countries, the Dutch housing market fell into a depression since the fall of Lehman Brothers at the end of 2008 and the credit crunch started. After 2010, many housing markets in Europe recovered from the financial crisis and experienced growing house prices again. This was however not the case in the Netherlands....

Private market PPP versus innovative public market procurement practices

Public contracts between contracting authorities and economic operators take place in a context in which initiative rests with a contracting authority publishing a contract notice defining content and scope of the contract. Many innovative contracting practices, described as public-private partnerships (PPP) take place using public contract...

Europese vergelijking stedelijke vernieuwing in de Europese Unie, Frankrijk, Engeland en Nordrhein-Westfalen

European comparison of urban renewal in the European Union, France, England and North Rhine-Westphalia.