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)
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