This paper is the second part of a study on the Dutch social housing system. The first paper traced the history of the system. Nonprofit housing associations (called…
Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. While the definition of “social housing” has changed over the last 120 years, as of 2022 it…
Alexander von Hoffman, Matthew Arck
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June 13, 2019
This brief describes five novel and replicable programs that are providing housing for low- and moderate-income Americans. These programs were created by collaborations of…
A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades.
Starting in the 1960s, the United…
W12-5: History offers valuable lessons to policy makers. Among other lessons, it teaches us the reasons that the government adopted the programs that constitute the…
Alexander von Hoffman, Eric Belsky, James DeNormandie, Rachel G. Bratt
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June 1, 2004
W04-5: This paper was prepared to provide background information for a conference sponsored by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation entitled The Vitality of America…
W98-2: Although housing reform is generally associated with government programs enacted in the twentieth century, the concept of the slum--a residential environment that…