Social housing stock, homelessness and poverty
J.R. Wijnen (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Abhijeet Chandel – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
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Abstract
Social housing stock, homelessness and poverty is a comparative study, investigating the effects of the spatial distribution of these three subjects on one another and their relations for the two case study cities of Amsterdam and The Hague.
Several studies show that social housing has its implications on homelessness and poverty, bettering the situation once social housing programs are set in place (Jacobs, 2019; O’Donnel, 2021; Whyte & Hawkey & Smith, 2023). This study sought to fill the knowledge gap on the effects of the spatial distribution of social housing on homelessness and poverty by means of literature reviews and spatial analysis.
The results show that areas with higher concentration of social housing more often have higher concentrations of poverty, while at the same time the presence of social housing itself has beneficial effects on tackling poverty and homelessness. Thus lowering poverty and homelessness in areas with concentrations of social housing relative to areas without these.
When analyzing the two case studies, the results show evidence for a correlation between the spatial distribution of social housing and the spatial distribution of poverty for the majority of neighborhoods in the two cities. Research into the spatial distribution of homelessness for the case studies lacked the sources needed for getting to results.