The rise of collaborative housing approaches in England, France and The Netherlands

(How) are national houisng policies responding?

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

D.K. Czischke Housing Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
S. Zijlstra Housing Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
C. Carriou University of Paris
Research Group
Housing Management (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Self-organisation Collaborative housing Collective action Policy responses Housing institutions
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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Management in the Built Environment

Research Group

Housing Management

Abstract

The current development of collaborative housing in a number of North-Western European countries responds, to a large extent, to a series of failures of both housing policies and housing markets, which have accumulated over the last decades. The latter represent the inability of ‘formal’ housing institutions (stretching across market, State and third sector) to satisfy the housing needs and demands of increasingly large and diverse groups of the population. In particular, a structural housing affordability crisis is broadening its effects to include not only the so-called ‘traditional’ housing poor, but also a variety of middle-income groups, especially following the 2008/09 recession and ensuing austerity measures. This begs the question on whether, and to what extent, national and local (housing) policies are connecting with bottom-up housing initiatives. To shed light on this question, this paper will critically assess recent policy developments in England, France and the Netherlands.