Selling houses to (presumably) low-income tenants. Can owner-occupation lead to empowerment of former social housing tenants?

The purchasing of maintenance service delivery in the Dutch social housing sector: Optimising commodity strategies for delivering maintenance services to tenants

For housing associations, maintenance is an opportunity for high quality interaction with their tenants, and thus an opportunity for effectively influencing the quality of service delivery to tenants. Dutch housing associations have a market share of about one third of the entire Dutch housing stock. They spent around 2.8 billion euros a year on...

Social Housing in the Netherlands, Chapter 10

Nowhere else in Europe does social housing dominate the housing market as it does in the Netherlands. Over one third of all households rent a social-sector dwelling. There are 2.4 million social rented dwellings, a number that has been stable during the last decade. Almost all social housing is owned by housing associations. These have to act on...

Environmental policies and efforts in social housing: The Netherlands