The potential of 'kluswoningen': Is the provision of 'kluswoningen' valuable for widening the opportunities of first-time buyers?

The housing shortage in the Netherlands has been a pressing issue, particularly affecting starters and middle-income households who struggle with high prices and limited access to affordable housing. In response, there have been interventions and policies aimed at stimulating starters to access the housing market, but the supply of adequate and...

Quantifying investment risks: Forecasting delivery time of new-build projects of Dutch housing associations

Dutch Housing associations (HA’s) are responsible for producing, maintaining, and managing about 30% of all Dutch housing stock. HA’s draw up their investment forecasts yearly for the next 5 years to construct, improve or maintain homes and other real estate investments. Since 2013, the realization rate of new construction plans by HA’s, which...

Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands

In 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy...

Improving social housing in a sea of open data: The potential role of open data in the decision-making process regarding the energetic improvement by housing associations

In the challenge of climate change, energetically improving the existing residential buildings offers a way to reduce the CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions of the built environment. In the Netherlands, housing associations own and maintain almost a third (2.3 million housing units) of the entire Dutch housing stock and could therefore play a...

Closing the Loop: A Decision Support Framework for Circular Economy implementation to the adaptive reuse of vacant buildings in the Netherlands.

The Circular Economy (CE) in the built environment has gained ever more attention as discussions around the threats of global warming, resource scarcity, environmental impacts, and energy emissions intensify. The building industry accounts for approximately 40% of carbon emissions and reusing vacant buildings – thus slowing resource loops – is...

Local performance agreements for (social) housing policy-does it work?

A case study in three Dutch municipalities on the effects and effectiveness of the policy instrument of local performance agreements for housing policy in the light of the revised Housing Act

Alternatieve Financieringswijzen voor Nederlandse woningcorporaties

The main target of this research is to make an inventory of the financial methods that can be used by housing associations. Then these methods are tested in a financial model to see the consequences of these methods over time. The third insight gained is what the consequences of these methods are related to the legally defined tasks of the...

‘Change for the Better?’—making sense of housing association mergers in the Netherlands and England

Mergers among housing associations have become a frequent phenomenon in both the Netherlands and England. The general literature on mergers highlights the need for research to consider the wider political and business environment, managerial motives and strategic choices, to adopt a process perspective and to evaluate outcomes in relation to...

Deadlocks and breakthroughs in urban renewal: A network analysis in Amsterdam

Urban renewal in the Netherlands has become a matter of ‘networking’. Housing associations, Dutch social landlords, became financially independent in the 1990s and have a responsibility in urban renewal. It is a joint responsibility in which local authority, social landlord and tenants are dependent on each other. This situation is rather new...

Dutch housing associations: A model for social housing

Housing associations and sustainable management: Environmental efforts in the Netherlands' social housing sector