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The Dutch housing policy for the next decade: an attack on housing associations or adjustment to changing demands?

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  • André Ouwehand

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In March 2001 the Dutch parliament discussed and approved the Housing Memorandum 'What people want, where people live'. This policy document gives a broad picture of housing policy for the next decade. It stresses individual freedom of choice, sets ambitious homeownership targets, analyses the changing demands for housing and concludes that a large change in the housing stock is necessary. This is to be partly achieved by the sale of more than 500,000 social rented dwellings and by reducing the role of housing associations. Their part of the total housing stock will diminish from 36 per cent at this time to 25 per cent in the year 2010. The question is whether this must be seen as an attack on the position of housing associations or as an inevitable adjustment to changes in housing demand. Will the social rented sector be marginalized or residualized? This paper explores these questions and argues that this is unlikely, and that policy change is not going to 'attack' housing associations. Conclusions indicate that the social sector surely has nonetheless to change to meet the demands of today and tomorrow.

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  • André Ouwehand, 2002. "The Dutch housing policy for the next decade: an attack on housing associations or adjustment to changing demands?," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 2(2), pages 203-221.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:2:y:2002:i:2:p:203-221
    DOI: 10.1080/14616710210140376
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    1. Vincent Gruis, 2005. "Financial and Social Returns in Housing Asset Management: Theory and Dutch Housing Associations' Practice," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(10), pages 1771-1794, September.
    2. Hugo Priemus, 2004. "Housing and New Urban Renewal: Current Policies in the Netherlands," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 229-246.

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