Trust and money: 20 years of (no) progress?

In almost 20 Years since Latham published the interim report ‘Trust and Money’ in which he asserted that there was too little of either in the UK construction industry, has anything changed? This paper addresses issues of what trust is, how it is created and its fragility, and progresses to examine how trust operates in the construction industry...

Risk mitigation on housing and mortgage markets across Europe; a tale of contrast and hope (draft version)

Homeownership rates have risen all over Europe during the last decades The result of a symbiosis between changing preferences of individual households and a government that - for divers’ political and economical reasons - promoted self-reliance on housing which in many cases matured in promoting homeownership. This paper comprises an extensive...

Is the Belgian housing model crumbling?

Workshop 1. Session A. Abstract. The OSIS research project focussed -among other issues- on the strategies of households to secure home ownership. This is an intriguing research question for Belgian scholars, since (1) Belgian governments already since the end of the 19th century continuously promoted home ownership, (2) home ownership became ...