Close neighbours not distant friends: What has been learned about neighbourhood focused housing associations in England and the Netherlands

Effective neighbourhood working is a key requirement for housing associations in England and the Netherlands, yet this is often hampered by conflicting institutional logics of scale and localism. Housing associations are often considered to be ideally placed to facilitate such change and have a business interest in doing so, but to do so they...

Selling houses to (presumably) low-income tenants. Can owner-occupation lead to empowerment of former social housing tenants?

Close neighbours not distant friends: Neighbourhood focused housing associations: developments in England and the Netherlands

Performance assessment of housing associations

This article analyzes the function, design, and effects of a method to assess the performance of housing associations in the Netherlands. First, the roles of performance assessment are discussed from three perspectives: the association as an agent for the central government; the association as a facilitator of local stakeholders’ needs; and the...

Key players in urban renewal in the Netherlands, Chapter 12

The social housing sector in the Netherlands is the largest in Europe. Social housing dominates in many urban neighbourhoods, and contemporary urban renewal in the Netherlands focuses on areas where housing associations own the majority of the stock. At the same time, urban renewal means more than just renewal of housing; rather, it is...

The purchasing of maintenance service delivery in the Dutch social housing sector: Optimising commodity strategies for delivering maintenance services to tenants

For housing associations, maintenance is an opportunity for high quality interaction with their tenants, and thus an opportunity for effectively influencing the quality of service delivery to tenants. Dutch housing associations have a market share of about one third of the entire Dutch housing stock. They spent around 2.8 billion euros a year on...

Social Housing in the Netherlands, Chapter 10

Nowhere else in Europe does social housing dominate the housing market as it does in the Netherlands. Over one third of all households rent a social-sector dwelling. There are 2.4 million social rented dwellings, a number that has been stable during the last decade. Almost all social housing is owned by housing associations. These have to act on...

Environmental policies and efforts in social housing: The Netherlands

Technisch beheer door woningcorporaties in de 21e eeuw. Professioneel, klantgericht en duurzaam

Technical management is an important policy field for housing associations. Technical management processes influence the product, price, and exploitation characteristics of dwellings. At the higher level the strategic stock policy concerns the complete stock of the housing association. The design of a model relationship between the strategic...