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...

Energy poverty, bridging the gap between housing association and tenant: What measures housing associations can take to aid their tenants who are struggling with energy poverty

Due to rising energy prices, an increasing number of households are experiencing difficulties with the affordability of their energy bills. As a result, households are unable to heat or cool their homes, or use electrical appliances as desired. This is known as energy poverty. This research focuses on energy poverty within housing associations....

Housing Satisfaction of tenants in middle segment rental housing in Amsterdam

The municipality of Amsterdam wants to allow the middle segment in the rental sector to grow further in size in the coming years, to better facilitate the housing needs of residents between the social rental sector and the owner-occupied sector. However, it is important to gain a better insight into both the quantitative and qualitative housing...

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...

The repair maintenance cycle: Recommendations for housing associations on repair maintenance to maximize tenant satisfaction

Social housing associations play an important role in providing affordable, adequate, and safe housing to their tenants. This requires constant maintenance of the real estate in their portfolio. There are different types of maintenance, but in this research, the focus will be on repair maintenance. Repair maintenance is carried out in response...

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...

The bottlenecks in the process of realizing a housing cooperative in cities in the Netherlands: Independent housing associations that bought their property from a social housing association or developed their property newly by themselves

In a large part of the Netherlands, middle-income households fall into the gap between the social housing sector and the market sector. Also, the supply in middle-income dwellings is too small. Municipalities face challenges in unwanted changes in the population of the city because different groups are having problems fulfilling their housing...

Bridging the affordability gap: An exploratory study into the potential enhancement of the Dutch intermediate housing sector

Housing affordability is a topic of all times, however, on the current Dutch housing market it is an increasing urgency and thus increasingly harder to find to many Dutch households. The housing shortage, combined with the booming economy, are causing housing prices to rise relatively fast. Although the housing market is pressured in many...

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

Sharing your objectives, without telling what to do: A study into causes of a mismatch in intended and interpreted objectives between housing associations and contractors in EMAT procurement

social housing on the move

Both the public and the European Commission have criticized the past actions of Dutch housing associations. A new housing act has become applicable, which would force housing associations to change their conduct on the rental housing market. Important developments include the allocation of households with a low income to social dwellings, a...

Psychology in construction: Measuring the influence of psychological features on project performance in housing association renovation projects

Because of the lack of research about the social aspects that affect the performance in the construction industry (CI) and given the importance of these processes to team collaboration and outcomes, this Master thesis aims to contribute to the body of knowledge about the social aspects in these processes. This gave rise to the following research...

De invloed van woonwensen op het strategisch voorraadbeleid van woningcorporaties

Woonwensen zijn onderhevig aan de invloed van tijd. Maar ook de crisis heeft woonwensen beïnvloed. Hoe gaan woningcorporaties hiermee om? Hebben woonwensen wel invloed op het strategisch voorraadbeleid van woningcorporaties?

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...