Sien Winters

Biographic Data

ID5915666
NAMESien Winters
GIVEN NAMESSien
FAMILY NAMEWinters
SIGNATUREWINTERS S
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
ORCID0000-0002-8064-0459
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Expanding the Social Rental Housing Stock in Flanders

    Open AccessSien Winters, Emmanuel Dockx et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2024

    In Flanders, social rental housing serves as the primary policy instrument to address housing affordability issues. However, the current supply of social housing falls significantly short of meeting all needs. Despite broad political consensus and increased government budgets for social housing since 2013, it has become increasingly difficult to allocate the budget to new investment projects. By the end of 2021, only a fraction of the annual cred…

  • Turbulent times for flemish social housing

    Open AccessSien WintersARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2023Cited by: 2

  • Social housing in Flanders

    Sien Winters, Katleen Van den BroeckARTICLEHousing Studies2022Cited by: 1References: 9

    Social housing in Flanders is provided by two types of organizations. Social Housing Associations (SHAs) build and buy houses. Social Rental Agencies (SRAs) rent houses on the private market. Both types of organizations have a similar goal: to provide affordable and good quality housing to households in need. In this article, we describe the SHA and SRA model, assess the cost for the government of both models and evaluate their cost-effectiveness…

  • Autonomy and Reregulation

    Open AccessWouter Van Dooren, Joris Voets et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration2015References: 13

    The autonomy of implementing agencies often seems to trigger reregulation of those agencies. Reregulation has two dimensions: the layering of different control mechanisms and the growth of the rules within those layers. Using a case study of social housing in Belgium, we explain the tendency to reregulate once autonomy is provided. We attribute the layering of rules to a conflict regarding oversight between the established legal profession and an…

  • How housing outcomes vary between the Belgian regions

    Open AccessSien Winters, Kristof HeylenARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2013Cited by: 8References: 6

  • The future of Flemish social housing

    Open AccessSien Winters, Marja ElsingaARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2008Cited by: 5

    Housing policy in Belgium and Flanders is directed mainly towards encouraging home ownership. Social housing in Flanders covers a share of 5.6% of the housing stock. This social rental sector is characterized as a safety net by some housing researchers and as a general model by others. During the 1990s and the first half of this decade social housing in Flanders became under discussion. The image of social housing that dominated then was one of i…