Inspiration Award 2026 - Cast Your Vote!
The nominees for the PROVADA Inspiration Award 2026 have been announced! Three inspiring professionals who are truly making a difference in the industry are competing for the title. Meet the nominees:
The housing crisis is more urgent than ever. How do we ensure sufficient, affordable homes — within the limits of our planet — for now and for the future? What exactly are we talking about when we refer to “the housing delivery challenge”?
The housing delivery challenge is a complex system involving, among other things, policy, regulation, financial structures and socio-economic changes. To arrive at guiding solutions, it is first necessary to understand how we got to the current situation.
That is why the Eerlijk Wonen consortium has expanded its research over the past one and a half years into the causes and consequences of housing policy from recent decades. This has resulted in a map of “Housing Policy”, showing roughly 250 laws and regulations that affect housing. From the duty of care in the Constitution, laws relating to financing, locations, building, renovating, selling, sustainability and transformation, to the statutory cost recovery when selling or purchasing land.
During this knowledge session, we will present the first overall concept of the map. The map is structured in three rings: people as the innermost ring, the implementation of the housing delivery challenge as the second ring, and planetary boundaries as the outermost ring.
With this structure, it becomes clear how policy and regulation work out in practice. Where do rules pile up? Where do bottlenecks arise, for example around affordability or adding housing stock? And what “knobs” do policy-makers, market parties and other stakeholders have to actively steer towards solutions? We will also provide a glimpse of a number of solution directions. During the session, there will be room for questions and discussion.
About Eerlijk Wonen
As part of the international collaborative project “Affordable Housing within Planetary Boundaries”, a European consortium investigates concrete, affordable and future-proof solutions for the housing delivery challenge. DGBC is the coordinator within the consortium for the Netherlands, together with Platform Woonopgave and Platform31. In this project, it has been translated as “Eerlijk Wonen”. Alongside our European consortium partners in Germany (Buro Happold), France (Sciences Po), Spain (IDRA, NESI) and the UK (Dark Matters Lab), we share insights and work on an integrated approach to the housing delivery challenge, each with its own national focus.
Speakers
- Laetitia Nossek (programme manager Dutch Green Building Council)
- Sanne van Manen (founder Platform Woonopgave)
Opening PROVADA 2026: Connecting Defence and Real Estate
On Tuesday 9 June at 10:00 AM, PROVADA will be officially opened by Lieutenant General Dick van Ingen, Deputy Director-General of Policy at the Ministry of Defence. Through his contribution, PROVADA underlines the current and growing intersections between Defence and the real estate sector.
At the Innovation Café, applicable innovations in area development take centre stage
During PROVADA, BouwLab R&Do and The Green Village will be providing the content programming for the Innovation Café. In collaboration with partners BPD, COD and VORM, and the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, and the DMI Ecosystem, one central question takes the lead: how do we move innovation faster from idea to application?
Foreign capital needed to meet housing construction targets
The fiscal threshold for foreign pension funds and insurers to invest in the Dutch housing market must be significantly lowered. That is the view of Mark Siezen, CEO of asset manager Bouwinvest. 'Foreign capital is absolutely essential to meet the enormous housing construction challenge. That requires a stable housing policy and fiscal climate. I am hopeful: the new minister recognises this and will act on it.'
International Investment Day at PROVADA: programme announced
Following the earlier announcement of the launch of the International Investment Day, PROVADA now presents the full programme for Thursday, 11 June 2026. As the largest real estate exhibition in the Netherlands, PROVADA brings together leading market parties for a day of insights, discussion and networking. The newly introduced international investment programme—developed in collaboration with INREV, Holland Metropole and the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning—offers international investors direct access to key developments, policy perspectives and investment opportunities in the Dutch market.
Parking during PROVADA
Visiting PROVADA? Please be aware that it can get busy around the RAI. Due to multiple large events taking place at the same time, the RAI parking facilities often fill up early.