The desired housing situation of households aged 55 and older: housing with common spaces?
D. Mancoulov (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M.E.A. Haffner – Mentor (TU Delft - Urban Development Management)
Harry Boumeester – Mentor (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)
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Abstract
Many households aged 55 and older with a desire to move encounter a lack of suitable housing on the Dutch housing market. Various households that have a desire to move, cannot find a dwelling that meets their desires in their desired location. This hinders their ability to realize their housing preferences and forms an impediment to the residential mobility on the Dutch housing market. Improving the residential mobility of households aged 55 and older has the biggest potential herein, which in turn contributes to the residential mobility of other households. It is therefore important in the housing provision to develop new housing that suits the desires of households aged 55 and older. This study therefore aims to gain insight into the housing preferences of households aged 55 and older in the Netherlands. Herein included, this study explores the extent of interest and preferences with regard to housing types that stimulate social interaction, which are being encouraged in the housing provision in the Netherlands. Through a secondary analysis of the WoON 2021 datafile, a better understanding of the group of people aged 55 and older is gained through exploration of the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics and the characteristics of the current dwelling. Subsequently, the housing preferences are explored of moving-inclined households in WoON. As the moving inclination of households can be influenced by the current possibilities on the housing market, the study explores the extent to which households aged 55 and older would have a desire to move if an attractive dwelling that meets their desires would be present, through a digital survey. This study subsequently gains insight into the housing preferences of this group of people and explores the extent of interest with regard to housing types that are to stimulate social interaction, comprising homes with common spaces. This study shows that a notable share of people aged 55 and older would have a desire to move if a dwelling that meets their desires would be present. The share of people that would want to move is shown to be larger if a dwelling that meets their desires would be present. Furthermore, it shows that among people aged 55 and older there is an interest in living in housing types with common spaces.