Een duurzaam thuis: Over waarden in wonen

Nederlandse volkshuisvesting draagt van oudsher bij aan een ’waardevolle‘ samenleving. Volkshuisvesting had oorspronkelijk als doel te voorzien in een gezonde woonsituatie voor iedereen en bij te dragen aan een maatschappij waarin kwetsbare groepen middenin de samenleving leven. Dit streven kon lange tijd op breed politiek draagvlak rekenen. Met de introductie van marktwerking in de woonsector kwamen woningcorporaties en hun bijzondere positie tussen markt en overheid onder een vergrootglas te liggen. Het op economische efficiëntie gerichte denken kon niet uit de voetenmet deze vreemde organisaties die niet gericht zijn op winst maar op waarden. In plaats van de waarden expliciet te maken, werd geprobeerd onderscheid te maken tussen de op winst gerichte activiteiten van woningcorporaties en de activiteiten die het algemeen belang dienden. Dit artikel gaat in op de waarden in wonen die nu te vaak impliciet blijven, zoals rechtvaardigheid en duurzaamheid, en voorheen werden aangeduid met het begrip volkshuisvesting

About Housing Systems and Underlying Ideologies

This contribution is a reflection on the critical analysis of Mark Stephens of the theoretical work on housing systems by Jim Kemeny. It concludes that the analysis of Stephens is a great incentive to continue the debate on housing and welfare started by Kemeny. The core of the review is that Stephens focusses on the so-called maturation of social rental housing as a replacement of government subsidies: can non-profit housing compete with commercial housing under smart conditions for social sustainability? Stephens is right that this maturation thesis does not hold and he provides convincing evidence for this. However, Stephens contribution neglects an important part of Kemeny’s work: the link between housing and more in particular the role of home ownership in welfare states. Here is work to be done! This contribution concludes with emphasizing the link between housing and welfare systems and its underlying ideologies. Rules of the games such as laws for social rental housing are important, but even more important than laws are day to day beliefs among citizens and professionals of what is right and wrong in housing practice. In other words it needs further research to explore the role of housing in practice of populism and COVID19. How do underlying housing ideologies play a role in current practice and how do and can they change policies and practices in housing in different continents?.</p

Middengroepen in de knel?

Inleiding in het kader van het Symposium 'De toekomst van de woningmarkt voor de middeninkomens

Eigen-woningbezit onder lage-inkomensgroepen: Achtergronden en consequenties

OTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen

De ontwikkeling van het eigen-woningbezit onder lage-inkomensgroepen; theoretisch, internationaal en historisch perspectief

OTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen

De toekomst van woningcorporaties: Corporaties moeten focussen voor draagvlak

Waar gaat het heen met de woningcorporaties? De financiële stabiliteit staat onder druk, doelgroep en kerntaken worden geherdefinieerd, het toezicht gaat op de schop. Marja Elsinga schetst een toekomstscenari

A Review of "Housing wealth and welfare", By Caroline Dewilde and Richard Ronald

Book review: Housing wealth and welfare, By Caroline Dewilde and Richard Ronald, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978 78536 095 4.This is a very interesting edited volume comprising an introduction chapter reflecting on so-called housing asset-based welfare and nine chapters written by a nice selection of authors. It is a more than worthwhile joint effort of two excellent ERC laurates who have both been working on the topic for years which is demonstrated in the very comprehensive overview of the state of the art in housing wealth and welfare. They explain different models across time and across Europe: some models are more familialised, relying on family capital, while others are more financialised, relying on mortgages. The introduction is followed by a multi-angle, multi-country collection of well-written chapters. And last but not least, there is an epilogue by John Doling, ‘the father’ of housing asset-based welfare.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.OLD Housing System

Is de volkshuisvesting uitgewoond?

Technology, Policy and Managemen

Living in Assets Without Limits: Towards New Principles for Policies on Housing

Piketty (2014 Piketty, T. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University.10.4159/9780674369542[CrossRef], [Google Scholar]) wrote a thought provoking book on capital, how it evolved over the decades and the role of housing in it. Maclennan and Miao (2016 Maclennan, Duncan, and Julie Miao. 2017. “Capital, Housing and Inequality in the 21th Century.” Housing Theory and Society.[PubMed], [Google Scholar]) further elaborate on the work of Piketty and the role of housing, and on possible implications for housing policy. There is a whole range of literature demonstrating that housing more and more changed from a roof over the head into a key asset for households, and a key element in “asset based welfare” policies. The liberalization of financial markets improved access to home ownership and with that to the possibility to build housing equity. For many decades, in many countries encouraging home ownership was the key priority in housing policy and this priority was accompanied by the “dream of home ownership as an equaliser” in societies. However, the dream of the housing markets and home ownership as equalizer and a solution for welfare states is far from reality. Maclennan and Miao (2017 Maclennan, Duncan, and Julie Miao. 2017. “Capital, Housing and Inequality in the 21th Century.” Housing Theory and Society.[PubMed], [Google Scholar]) therefore, conclude that it is time for a new “political economy for housing policy”.&lt;br clear=&quot;none&quot;/&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;none&quot;/&gt;This contribution reflects on the paper “Capital, housing and inequality in the 21st century” of Maclennan and Miao, and with that explores new principles for policies on housing. It advocates more emphasis on the roof over the head part of housing in housing policy and for tax policies to deal with intergenerational social equality including housing equity.OLD Housing System