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  • 2021-03-05 (xsd:date)
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  • meaning the amount of social houses is lower than the amount of houses owned by housing corporations. The Dutch percentage of 28% social housing as a total of the market share is presumably lower. As Steegmans mentions (en)
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  • Dutch political party VVD states in its current election programme (2021) that the Netherlands has one of the largest social rental sectors in Europe but that the waiting lists for social housing average nine years. The party promises to make social housing more available to people with smaller incomes by stimulating richer people to move to private housing. The VVD is the Netherlands’ largest political party and known for its conservative-liberal policies. There are two claims to be checked in this statement. The first is ‘The Netherlands has one of the largest social housing sectors in Europe’ and the second is ‘the waiting list for social housing averages nine years’. Largest social housing sector Is the VVD’s first claim about social housing true? In 2018, the Netherlands totalled 7.7 million houses. The amount of social housing units was 2.2 million, according to a study by the Dutch government in 2018. Social housing accounts for 28,7% of the total housing market. According to researcher Alice Pittini and the writers of the academic book Social Housing in Europe, the Netherlands indeed has the largest share of social housing, when seen as a percentage of the country’s total housing market. In Social Housing in Europe (2007), a book published by London School of Economics and Political Science, an interesting distinction about social housing sectors became clear. The Netherlands has the highest percentage of social housing in Europe (now 28,7%). However, France has 4.2 million social houses, compared to the 2.4 million that the Netherlands has. But the 4.2 million French social houses make up only 17% of the total French housing market. Therefore, the Netherlands does have the largest social housing sector in Europe when analysed in the perspective of the national housing market as a whole. Utrecht University professor dr. Joep Steegmans says The Netherlands indeed has a large social housing sector (en)
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