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Jürgenhake, Birgit (author)The ageing society asks for architectural designs in which people can grow old. However, our living environments are not well-equipped for this. Isolation, loneliness or neglect of the elderly are often seen results. What if we could create living environments for mixed communities, co-housing or other forms of living in which the elderly live...conference paper 2023
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Li, Y. (author), Qian, QK (author), Mlecnik, E. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)Community residents possess first-hand knowledge of the community and effective execution of retrofit methods. Their understanding, acceptance and ultimately participation determine the smoothness of working process and the success of the project. Although the introduction of regulations and policies has increased resident participation in...conference paper 2021
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Yan, J. (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)Paper presented at ENHR Uppsala workshop program WG24 Social Housing, Organisations, Institutions and Governance,conference paper 2018
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Nieboer, N.E.T. (author), Straub, A. (author)It is generally acknowledged that the existing housing stock plays a vital role in attaining national and international energy efficiency targets. As for new building, mandatory regulations can be (and are) developed to attain energy-efficient homes, but energy improvements in the existing stock are, because of property rights, strongly...conference paper 2018
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)In the Netherlands, the extraction of natural gas from the ground has led to soil subsidence and the occurrence of earthquakes. These earthquakes cause physical damage to buildings and also lead to psychological problems and decreased housing satisfaction. Research on the impact of natural hazards has shown that there is a complicated...conference paper 2018
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Dol, C.P. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author)The ageing of European societies and increasing pressure on collective pension arrangements has sparked interest in alternative, more individualised forms of pension provision. Home ownership is regarded as one of these alternatives. Home owners can release housing equity by moving to a smaller owner occupied dwelling or a rental dwelling....conference paper 2018
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Petrović, A. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Manley, D.J. (author)Contextual poverty is a multiscale phenomenon which affects socioeconomic outcomes of people as well asindividual decisions to move in or out of the neighbourhood. Large-scale poverty reflects regional economicstructures. Meso-scale concentrations of poverty within cities are related to city-specific social, economic andhousing characteristics....conference paper 2018
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)While Dutch housing policy has been moving towards ‘more market’ influences in this century, in response to the triple recession that the Netherlands underwent in the period 2009-2013, government started promoting a participation society. In order to analyse the impact in practice of these developments on vulnerabilities of households, a Dutch...conference paper 2018
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Thomsen, A.F. (author), Straub, A. (author)What is the average lifespan of dwellings?<br/>Though of decisive importance for the provision, maintenance and management of housing stocks, and despite a choice of research papers about the subject, the last word about this question is far from said.<br/>At first a distinction should be made between the technical lifespan and the functional...conference paper 2018
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Van Oel, C.J. (author), De Boer-Lootens, M. (author)Inevitably, moving into elderly care facilities causes distress. The elderly need to develop emotional bonds with their new place. Place attachment is manifested through affective, cognitive and behavioural psychological processes, and influenced by social and physical characteristics of places. A knowledge gap exists regarding physical place...conference paper 2015
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Tang, C. (author), Oxley, M. (author)In the United Kingdom, social landlords are facing decreasing governmental financial support for them to fulfil their role in the provision of social housing, which has led to increasing pressure on them to rely on private capital. Traditionally, bank loans were the main source of private capital, but after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and...conference paper 2015
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Etxezarreta Etxarri, A. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Cano Fuentes, G. (author), Cruz Mazo, E. (author), Dol, C.P. (author)The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new theoretical framework to the Spanish housing studies. This article combines different traditions and different frameworks (social innovation, social economy), in order to position the crisis of evictions in Spain and the emergence of housing co-operatives in a new theoretical context. In the first...conference paper 2015
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)The decreasing importance of socio-economic factors in choosing a place to live gives more room to other motivational factors. These can be examined using affordance-based theory (Gibson, 1979), which explores what use the environment has to the user. In a telephone survey, 738 respondents were asked for their preferred residential environment...conference paper 2015
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Teye, A.L. (author), De Haan, J. (author), Elsinga, M. (author)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...conference paper 2015
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Van Oel, C.J. (author), Francken, L. (author), Riccardo, F. (author)The Dutch rental market in the private sector is a rather small market in comparison. About 10% of the housing stock is privately rented. Mainly the people at the end or the beginning of their home career are renting their dwellings in this sector. The rental prices are widely dispersed, with rents about twice as high in the capital compared to...conference paper 2015
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Visscher, H.J. (author), Filippidou, F. (author), Nieboer, N.E.T. (author)The European Union formulated high ambitions of energy reductions to be realised in the built environment. The existing housing stock covers a major share of energy use and is seen as high potential to contribute to the savings. This should be realised in the first place by reducing the energy demand for heating by renovation of the existing...conference paper 2015
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Thomsen, A.F. (author), Nieboer, N.E.T. (author), Van der Flier, C.L. (author)Obsolescence, defined as the process of declining performance of buildings, is a serious threat for the value, the usefulness and the life span of housing properties. Thomsen and van der Flier (2011) developed a model in which obsolescence is categorised on the basis of two distinctions, namely between endogenous and exogenous cause-effect...conference paper 2015
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Deng, W. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)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...conference paper 2014
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Nieboer, N.E.T. (author), Thomsen, A.F. (author), Van der Flier, C.L. (author)Obsolescence, broadly defined as a process of declining performance resulting in the end of the service life, is a serious threat for built property. This is even more the case in present times of reduced investment budgets and relatively small numbers of new-built homes, which increase the relative importance of the existing housing stock....conference paper 2014
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Hematalikeikha, M.A. (author), Coolen, H.C.C.H. (author), Pourdeihimi, S. (author)Human activities based on human needs are affected by affordances and meanings that occur in the dwelling. Activities over time and space have meaningful sequences. The meaningfulness of activities in the cultural framework is conditioned by its special temporality and spatiality. Also, temporal or spatial sequences are the ways of separation or...conference paper 2014