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3Social housing is not an individual or family subsidy and it is not subsidized homeownership. It is physical housing that is funded via government, often in partnership between various orders of government or with not-for-profit housing providers. Notably, social housing is designed to remain as a permanent public good (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe [UNECE], 2021). Social housing predates welfare systems (Scanlon et al., 2014) and was foundationally designed and implemented for broader aims than current systems, where extreme housing disadvantage is often prioritized in over-subscribed systems. Preceding World War II (1939 1945), social housing became a broader community good designed to address insufficient supply and high costs of private housing (Rolnik, 2019), supporting a large variety of housing needs. However, in the Global North, the social housing landscape has very much changed. On September 17, 2025, Canadian and Dutch researchers hosted a workshop on social housing to discuss and learn about the evolution of social housing and best practices in delivering quality social housing. The workshop convened housing experts, service providers and academics from diverse countries, which included learnings from Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Ireland. The key takeaway from the workshop was this: reimagining social housing in both the present and future must include the foundational aspect and ethical responsibility of building and restoring “community”. Learnings from the workshop detailed how the concept of community in social housing design and implementation has been lost by many and, instead, social housing has been under-funded, the role of government in providing social housing has been largely missing, and the implementation of social housing has, at times, lacked dignity.
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Het Kwaliteitskader Housing First is ontwikkeld om Housing First-praktijken te ondersteunen bij het versterken van hun werkwijze. Het kader helpt bij het reflecteren op hoe trouw de uitvoering is aan de kernprincipes van Housing First. Housing First is een bewezen effectieve aanpak voor de groep dakloze mensen met complexe, meervoudige problematiek. De effectiviteit van deze aanpak hangt sterk af van de mate waarin de kernprincipes worden nageleefd. Housing First werkt het beste als de kernprincipes volledig en consequent worden toegepast. Onderzoek toont aan dat de effectiviteit van Housing First afneemt zodra er wordt afgeweken van de kernprincipes. Het trouw blijven aan deze principes is daarom essentieel voor de kwaliteit en impact van de Housing First-praktijk.
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The approach to homelessness in the Netherlands is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving away from shelter-based systems toward direct and unconditional housing, as articulated in the National Action Plan on Homelessness Eerst een Thuis. However, the regular housing supply often fails to meet the diverse needs of young people experiencing homelessness, whose situations are shaped by high stress levels, instability, and frequently trauma. This research explores how alternative housing concepts can better respond to these needs by focusing on the hardware dimension of housing design—its spatial, material, and architectural qualities.
Existing initiatives to enrich housing concepts for people experiencing homelessness tend to focus mainly on the software aspects of community living, emphasizing social cohesion, collective activities, and supportive networks. This paper complements and challenges that emphasis by foregrounding the need for imaginative hardware interventions—architectural, spatial, and material solutions that can meaningfully expand the architectural repertoire of youth housing, and better respond to the needs of the diverse group of young people facing homelessness.
Conducted within the Master of Architecture programme and the Real Estate Professorship of the NoorderRuimte Research Center at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the study was grounded in a participatory design process involving students, researchers, local stakeholders and experts by experience. The insights and lived experiences of young people served as the starting point, ensuring that their needs and various profiles informed all stages of the design exploration. The theoretical framework combines principles of healing architecture and trauma-informed design, acknowledging that experiences of homelessness often go hand in hand with elevated stress and trauma, and that the built environment can play an active role in fostering safety, autonomy, and wellbeing.
The research-by-design process resulted in a wide spectrum of creative spatial directions aimed at enriching the current housing landscape. These directions range from acupunctural interventions within existing social housing stock, to reinterpretations of historical urban typologies such as the hofjes, to integrated design strategies embedded within broader transition agendas like climate adaptation. Other explorations focus on design processes that create opportunities for ownership, agency, and active participation by young people throughout construction.
To sum up, these design outcomes propose new ways to enhance destigmatisation, social cohesion, empowerment and personal development for young people facing homelessness in Groningen, while contributing to a more diverse and imaginative Dutch housing landscape.
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Het Kwaliteitskader Housing First is ontwikkeld om Housing First-praktijken te ondersteunen bij het versterken van hun werkwijze. Het kader helpt bij het reflecteren op hoe trouw de uitvoering is aan de kernprincipes van Housing First. Housing First is een bewezen effectieve aanpak voor de groep dakloze mensen met complexe, meervoudige problematiek. De effectiviteit van deze aanpak hangt sterk af van de mate waarin de kernprincipes worden nageleefd. Housing First werkt het beste als de kernprincipes volledig en consequent worden toegepast. Onderzoek toont aan dat de effectiviteit van Housing First afneemt zodra er wordt afgeweken van de kernprincipes. Het trouw blijven aan deze principes is daarom essentieel voor de kwaliteit en impact van de Housing First-praktijk. Dit rapport betreft de korte versie.
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Purpose - Housing associations make too small a contribution to society, the government has to step in too frequently because of maladministration, and the associations’ executives are often unaware of the far-reaching impact of their decisions. These are the conclusions of new academic research conducted by Jan Veuger of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). In his dissertation, he asserts that in numerous cases there is no correlation between social and financial objectives. The Dutch House of Representatives debated the results of the report Ver van huis from the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on Housing Associations in early December 2014.
Design/methodology/approach -After extensive exploration of the literature and PhD studies on the period from 2005-2009, the research design inspired based on the grounded theory, which has a certain bias as a result of the extensive literature study. In the line of thinking of the grounded theory, interviews with directors more or less contracted uninhibited according to a narrative method. Afterwards these interviews, independent of the researcher, thematic and labeled by a single Delphi method be submitted to an expert group which created a storyline. The results of this Delphi method have been submitted to a peer group of directors. Then these conclusions in a survey presented to 60 selected directors and the subsequent conclusions. There has thus been more than a triangulation of research than just interviews, Delphi method and survey. Hypotheses are thereby omitted because of the difficulty of fitting in within the chosen research design inspired by grounded theory.
Findings -Why thisqualitative thesis 'Control of housing associations in consistency with social values'? To understand and to discover patterns about the how and why of the functioning of corporations in society as they do now. This qualitative study is about the search for ideas, backgrounds, motives, resistors and motives and is therefore suitable for the following question: witch contradictions are there in the social values that underlie housing associations that affect the way the are governed? The overall summary conclusions to answer the central question is: Directors, at the highest level thinking about how to deal with values ensure they drive on their own, monitor, know the consequences and take responsibility.
Research limitations/implications - At his request Stef Blok, Minister for Housing and Kingdom Relations, has received the thesis Material Immaterial (Veuger 2014) on December 4, 2014. On December 11, 2014, the Minister decided to change its proposed policy through the establishment of an inspection model in which the financial and social objectives of the corporations are tested and assured, with the Minister as the final responsible. The parliament has unanimously agreed.
Originality/value - My contribution to science is also showing patterns of Board behavior, whether or not in conjunction with societal and financial values of housing associations. This has not been previously investigated or established. This contribution complements include studies on culture of housing associations (Dreimuller 2008 and Sinke 2014) or only driver behavior (Heemskerk 2013) or history of housing corporations (Beekers 2012) or about the behavior of housing associations (Koolma 2009)
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There is a shortage of housing and people with a lower income suffer most from this. Vacant buildings are transformed to provide quick housing for them, but it is not sure whether this provides a comfortable home, both from an indoor climate and a meaning making perspective. Existing material about completed transformation projects and six case studies was used to explore possible opportunities to improve the match of user and building. It appeared that buildings are only transformed when they are left vacant for a while and a new function shifts the investment balance. Also, higher quality housing was only provided when it was not meant to be temporary or meant to be sold instead of rented. Current regulations and standards are not met and appear not adequate to function for temporary transformation projects, and matching users and buildings including the meaning of home is an opportunity worth exploring to provide a comfortable home for everyone.
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Senior co-housing communities offer an in-between solution for older people who do not want to live in an institutional setting but prefer the company of their age peers. Residents of co-housing communities live in their own apartments but undertake activities together and support one another. This paper adds to the literature by scrutinizing the benefits and drawbacks of senior co-housing, with special focus on the forms and limits of social support and the implications for the experience of loneliness. Qualitative fieldwork was conducted in eight co-housing communities in the Netherlands, consisting of document analysis, interviews, focus groups, and observations. The research shows that co-housing communities offer social contacts, social control, and instrumental and emotional support. Residents set boundaries regarding the frequency and intensity of support. The provided support partly relieves residents’ adult children from caregiving duties but does not substitute formal and informal care. Due to their access to contacts and support, few residents experience social loneliness. Co-housing communities can potentially also alleviate emotional loneliness, but currently, this happens to a limited degree. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for enhancing the benefits and reducing the drawbacks of senior co-housing. Original article at MDPI; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193776
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An enormous challenge has risen regarding our existing housing stock, as the result of ambitious agreements to reduce global carbon emissions. Until now the focus has been mostly on improving energy efficiency technically by ameliorating the energy performance of the building envelope. Insulation, controlled ventilation, new services and devices are deployed, saving and harvesting energy. New building components and production processes have been developed to smoothen obstacles in the role-out of large-scale implementation of these measures. Also effort has been put into non-technical solutions e.g. new financial arrangements, standards and business models. This has resulted in several successful pilots in the EU to retrofit dwellings towards net-zero energy levels. Still, large-scale implementation, especially targeted at owner-occupied dwellings is lagging behind. The hypothesis is that this is due to the fact that the challenge is still mainly addressed by following concepts that belong to the paradigm of the second industrial revolution. In this paradigm central coordination, proprietary development and vertical up-scaling are key and dwellers are neglected as an essential group of stakeholders in the transformation of their dwellings. This paper will reflect on the principles used in retrofitting using the successful Dutch programme of the Stroomversnelling as a case study. What are the consequences, especially for the position of dwellers, if we rethink the developments from concepts that belong to the paradigm of the third industrial revolution? In the reflection on necessary and possible future developments experiences and insights from Open Building will be used.
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The development of an integrated ethical or normative model to design housing for persons with impairments and diseases, focusing on older persons with dementia.
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Background
To reduce homelessness, it is important to gain a better understanding of the differences between homeless people who remain in institutions and those who gain and can sustain independent housing. This longitudinal study explores differences in housing transitions and differences in changes in health and self-determination between formerly homeless people still living in institutions 2.5 years later and those now living in independent housing in the Netherlands.
Methods
This study mapped the housing transitions of 263 participants from when they entered the social relief system (SRS) to 2.5 years later when they were in independent housing or institutions. These individuals were compared at the 2.5-year mark in terms of gender, age and retrospectively in terms of duration of homelessness. They were also compared with regard to changes in psychological distress, perceived health, substance use and self-determination.
Results
Two and a half years after entering the SRS, 81% of participants were independently housed and 19% still lived in institutions. People in institutions had a longer lifetime duration of homelessness, were more often men, and their number of days of alcohol use had decreased significantly more, whereas independently housed people had shown a significant increase in their sense of autonomy and relatedness.
Conclusion
Formerly homeless people living in independent housing and in institutions show few health-related differences 2.5 years after entering the SRS, but changes in autonomy and relatedness are distinctly more prevalent, after the same period of time, in those who are independently housed.
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