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...

The most recent population forecasts tell us that the number of people living in the Netherlands will decrease after 2030, and the number of households after 2035. A long period of housing surpluses may be expected to follow the post-war era, a period marked by housing shortages. According to...

Urban areas 'at risk' have been gaining policy attention over the last decade in spite of the considerable physical improvements brought about through urban renewal programmes in the older parts of cities. A variety of problems may be stressed: the presence of too many poor and jobless people,...

Social rental housing has once again captured a strong position on the Dutch political agenda. This has happened especially since the European Commission sent a letter to the Dutch government indicating that the Dutch social rental sector was not considered EU-proof from the viewpoint of the...

The size of the Dutch social housing sector, with a 32 per cent share of the housing stock, has prompted concerns over the 'level playing field' of competition between social and commercial housing providers. In 2007, this concern culminated in a complaint from the Dutch Association of...

In modern forms of urban governance besides the local government, more partners are often involved in urban regeneration and 'public-private partnerships' (PPPs) are formed more frequently. PPPs are part of the 'environment of actors', which is formed by the actors involved in the urban...

Housing markets are essentially regional. We observe a differential territorial segmentation of housing markets: for high-income groups and expensive dwellings the search area is larger than for low-income groups and cheap accommodations. But there is also something like a national housing...

In this contribution, the possibilities of capital accumulation via homeownership in the Dutch context are described. We conclude that there is dichotomy in the Dutch housing market, where in particular households owning their own house before 1992 have seen their capital grow strongly and have...

In a recent issue of this journal Priemus discusses the implications of the shift in the Dutch housing market from suction to pressure. He rightly asserts that the impact made by surpluses on a market differs from that made by shortages, and that this difference will lead to a new generation of...

In this article, we focus on the Dutch shipbuilding sector in the first half of the twentieth century and address the question of how its innovative capacity evolved over time. Our attention to the importance of the whole constellation of actors in Dutch shipbuilding, their interrelations,...