How to redesign a rent rebate system?: Experience in the Netherlands

In 2006, responsibility for implementing the Dutch housing allowance system was transferred from the Ministry of Housing to the Tax Authority. It has since been renamed, and is now known as the ‘rent rebate system’. A number of dilemmas have become evident since the 2006 changes. Attention has shifted to how to implement the system effectively:...

How housing, infrastructure and water determined the spatial structure of the Randstad

Between 1950 and 1990, housing was the driving force behind the spatial growth of the Randstad. Growth poles (1970s) and later VINEX locations (1990–2010) were the main components of growth management. Transport infrastructure has developed greatly since the 1920s. Since 1990, infrastructure development has increasingly become the structuring...

The housing market reform agenda: A review of a recent housing policy document in the Netherlands

Housing system reform: The opinion of advisory boards versus political reality in the Netherlands

This paper describes to what extent a more or less collective feeling of urgency to reform the Dutch housing market is addressed in the political arena. By doing that, it sheds some light on the effectiveness and influence of academic research and recommendations on the political decision making process. We conclude that the suggestion of...

Housing system reform: Expert opinions and political reality in the Netherlands

This paper describes to what extent a more or less collective feeling of urgency to reform the Dutch housing market is addressed in the political arena. By doing that, it sheds some light on the effectiveness and influence of academic research and recommendations on the political decision making process. We conclude that the suggestion of...

The credit crunch: Impacts on the housing market and policy responses in the Netherlands

This contribution deals with the impact of the credit crunch on the Dutch housing market and the policy responses of the Dutch government so far. Reinhart and Rogoff have presented an overview of credit crises after WW II: what are the general characteristics and impacts? Also in the Netherlands, banking problems were imported from the US. The...

Large scale housing estates in Northwest Europe: Problems, interventions and experiences

European monetary, economic and political union: Consequences for national housing policies

Feasibility study for the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-Genera! for Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs

Post-war public housing in trouble: Papers presented at the Congress 'Post-war Public Housing in trouble', Delft, the Netherlands, October 4-5, 1984

In a number of countries the social housing sector was given serious food for thought when some relatively new housing estates had to be demolished: Pruitt Igoe (St. Louis), Quarry Hills (Leeds), la Démocratie (Lyon), Linnaeusstraat (Leeuwarden, NL). The management of many other estates proves to be very difficult: unlet apartments, vandalism, a...

Wonen - kreativiteit en aanpassing. Deel 1

Wonen - kreativiteit en aanpassing. Deel 3 bijlagen

Wonen - kreativiteit en aanpassing. Deel 2 onderzoek en evaluatie