A place for all households in urban areas: An exploratory study of housing preferences and housing affordability of middle-income households in relation to rental housing supply

Due to several factors, under which the widespread flexibilization in the job market and the fact that it ended up becoming more difficult to take out a mortgage, middle-income households ended up not having access to owner-occupied housing in Dutch urban areas. Also, middle-income households’ incomes are too high to qualify for the social...

Household mobility post-crisis: Examining the impact of macroeconomic and institutional developments on household mobility in the Netherlands

Policy reforms in response to the crisis were initially expected to dampen future house price increases. Instead, the Dutch owner-occupied housing market has overheated not even five years after its recovery. As this could indicate a structural change in the housing demand of households, models were estimated using logistic regression analysis...