Hugo Priemus
Biographic Data
| ID | 974714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugo Priemus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugo |
| FAMILY NAME | Priemus |
| SIGNATURE | PRIEMUS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Housing Policy
Housing policy is a strategic component of urban and regional planning. An overview is presented of housing policies in Europe, in (former) socialist countries, in the USA , and in developing countries. There is a huge variation in housing policies; developments of those policies are largely path‐dependent. Very often housing policies are mixed and segmented. Crucial also are some nonhousing policies with housing impacts.
How to redesign a rent rebate system? Experience in the Netherlands
In 2006, responsibility for implementing the Dutch housing allowance system was transferred from the Ministry of Housing to the Tax Authority. It has since been renamed, and is now known as the ‘rent rebate system’. A number of dilemmas have become evident since the 2006 changes. Attention has shifted to how to implement the system effectively: how to limit the overconsumption of housing services, how to avoid moral hazard, how to reduce outright…
City profile: The Hague
Interactions between the financial crisis and national housing markets
Demise of the Dutch social housing tradition: Impact of budget cuts and political changes
Housing system reform: The opinion of advisory boards versus political reality in the Netherlands
This paper describes to what extent a more or less collective feeling of urgency to reform the Dutch housing market is addressed in the political arena. By doing that, it sheds some light on the effectiveness and influence of academic research and recommendations on the political decision making process. We conclude that the suggestion of several advisory bodies to start a serious reform of the housing system in the Netherlands is, due to coaliti…
Public mortgage guarantee: Instrument to cope with impacts of the financial crisis on the owner-occupied housing market evidence from the Netherlands
The credit crunch, interrelations between (in)stability of housing markets and the general economy: Setting the scene
Combining Hierarchical and Network Strategies: Successful Changes in Dutch Social Housing
In the current times of economic turmoil, many sectors are thought to be in need of structural reform or system overhauls, which call for political leadership, decisiveness and vision. These kinds of challenges present governments with a dilemma. On the one hand, there is a call for radical change while, on the other hand, the options available for such radical change are limited by the many interdependencies of a network society. In this article…
Housing Finance Reform in the Making: The Case of the Netherlands
Current housing finance systems are mostly a poor reflection of the government's policy priorities. This paper explains how the current Dutch housing finance system works, and analyses its weaknesses against the backdrop of a well-functioning housing market and national policy goals. It specifically looks at recent proposals and some building blocks for future housing finance reform in the Netherlands. The paper ends with conclusions on the poten…
The credit crunch: Impacts on the housing market and policy responses in the Netherlands
This contribution deals with the impact of the credit crunch on the Dutch housing market and the policy responses of the Dutch government so far. Reinhart and Rogoff have presented an overview of credit crises after WW II: what are the general characteristics and impacts? Also in the Netherlands, banking problems were imported from the US. The open economy of the Netherlands appeared to be very vulnerable to the worldwide credit crunch. Also in t…
The Government Mortgage Guarantee as an Instrument in Housing Policy: Self-supporting Instrument or Subsidy
This paper discusses the role of government mortgage guarantee schemes in housing policy. It explores different types of government mortgage guarantee scheme, which play different roles, in eight countries. Mortgage guarantee schemes interfere in the mortgage market in order to improve access to mortgages. Such guarantees can be shaped as self-supporting instruments or as subsidies. If the latter is the case the issue of competition and a level p…
Technical Artefacts as Physical and Social Constructions: The Case of Cité de la Muette
Technological artefacts are physical/material as well as social constructions. Both the function and meaning of technical artefacts are mainly socially constructed. Usually the function of a technical artefact is taken to determine its use, but in particular in housing a close interrelation between use and meaning is also observed. The use and the meaning, as intended by technicians and architects, may differ from the use and the meaning of housi…
European Competition Policy and National Housing Policies: International Implications of the Dutch Case
This contribution explores the relationship between housing policy, which is the responsibility of national governments, and competition policy, including the decision on the legitimacy of state support, which is the responsibility of the European Commission (EC). The paper paints a general picture of EU policy on competition and state support and describes the Dutch social housing system. Attention then turns to the recent intervention by the Eu…
Spatial Disparities and Housing Market Deregulation in the Randstad Region: A Comparison With the San Francisco Bay Area
Since 1989, Dutch housing policy has been changing to allow more scope for market forces. This article will evaluate the spatial disparities related to these policy changes in the development of the housing market in the Randstad region of the Netherlands. The evaluation is placed in an international perspective by drawing a comparison between the Randstad and the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. The comparison focuses on three specif…
Understanding Social Capital in Recently Restructured Urban Neighbourhoods: Two Case Studies in Rotterdam
In the major Dutch cities, social rented housing in post-war neighbourhoods has been demolished and largely replaced by more expensive owner-occupied and rental housing. Through residential mobility, these measures can trigger substantial population changes. This paper studies residents' social capital in two recently restructured neighbourhoods in the city of Rotterdam. It distinguishes between the stayers, movers and newcomers. In a neighbourho…
Regeneration of Dutch post-war urban districts: The role of housing associations
European policy and national housing systems
The Dutch Zuider Zee railway: A giant with feet of clay
Tenant Empowerment Through Innovative Tenures: An Analysis of Woonbron–Maasoevers ’ Client's Choice Programme
According to the recent Housing Memorandum (MVROM, 2000 MVROM 2000 Mensen-Wensen-Wonen: wonen in de 21e eeuw [What people want, where people live: housing in the 21st century] The Hague Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment [Google Scholar] ), Dutch housing associations are expected to actively improve the control of tenants over their dwellings and their living environment and offer them more possibilities to choose their own…
From a layers approach towards a network approach: A Dutch contribution to spatial planning methodology
The path to successful urban renewal: Current policy debates in the Netherlands
Changing urban housing markets in advanced economies
For decades, the main distinguishing feature of urban housing markets in advanced economies has been suburbanization. Many people with middle and higher incomes have left the city and settled in the suburbs. The spending power associated with the city centre is lost to the suburbs, which have become increasingly prosperous. The Americans have a word for the legacy of this trend. They call it the ‘doughnut city’: empty buildings, derelict areas, c…
The present and future of income‐related housing support: Debates in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper examines income‐related housing support in Britain and the Netherlands. It considers the main issues that are at stake in current policy discussions, compares the arguments that are put forward in the two countries and draw conclusions about the future of income‐related housing support. In both Britain and the Netherlands political discussions about the possible introduction of housing vouchers are observed. The most complicated issues…
Spatial Memorandum 2004: A Turning Point in the Netherlands’ Spatial Development Policy
Understanding Social Capital in Recently Restructured Urban Neighbourhoods: Two Case Studies in Rotterdam
In the major Dutch cities, social rented housing in post-war neighbourhoods has been demolished and largely replaced by more expensive owner-occupied and rental housing. Through residential mobility, these measures can trigger substantial population changes. This paper studies residents' social capital in two recently restructured neighbourhoods in the city of Rotterdam. It distinguishes between the stayers, movers and newcomers. In a neighbourho…
How to abolish social housing? The Dutch case
Undivided Cities in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Political Rhetoric
In various countries we observe governments aiming to produce mixed income areas to reduce or prevent spatial segregation. This almost always implies a redifferentiation, or restructuring of the housing stock of low-income areas. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. Redifferentiation and restructuring are based on the idea that solutions to the problems of spatial segregation and concentration can be found in the housing stock. Thi…
Spatial development policy: Changing roles for local and regional authorities in the Netherlands
Revolution in Social Housing in the Netherlands: Possible Effects of New Housing Policies
The social rented sector in the Netherlands has always had a very special status. Unlike many other countries, in the Netherlands this sector has never been regarded as a segment exclusively for low-income households. Consequently, neighbourhoods with large numbers of social rented dwellings have never been areas for low-income households only. Since about 1990, however, the proportion of low-income households in social rented housing has increas…
Social Housing Policy in the European Union: Past, Present and Perspectives
Towards Undivided Cities: The Potential of Economic Revitalisation and Housing Redifferentiation
The 'undivided city' has become a major policy aim of today's local urban politicians. Therefore, adequate insight in the relevant dimensions affecting the urban social divide seems to be required, if only to be able to formulate proper policy strategies. However, whereas the literature reveals that various factors are responsible for the rise of divided cities, with perhaps global economic restructuring processes and welfare state differences as…
What are corridors and what are the issues? Introduction to special issue: The governance of corridors
A model for the analysis of the decline of postwar housing
Demise of the Dutch social housing tradition: Impact of budget cuts and political changes
European Competition Policy and National Housing Policies: International Implications of the Dutch Case
This contribution explores the relationship between housing policy, which is the responsibility of national governments, and competition policy, including the decision on the legitimacy of state support, which is the responsibility of the European Commission (EC). The paper paints a general picture of EU policy on competition and state support and describes the Dutch social housing system. Attention then turns to the recent intervention by the Eu…
Combining Hierarchical and Network Strategies: Successful Changes in Dutch Social Housing
In the current times of economic turmoil, many sectors are thought to be in need of structural reform or system overhauls, which call for political leadership, decisiveness and vision. These kinds of challenges present governments with a dilemma. On the one hand, there is a call for radical change while, on the other hand, the options available for such radical change are limited by the many interdependencies of a network society. In this article…
Dutch Housing Associations: Current Developments and Debates
In the Netherlands, social housing accounts for 37 per cent of the total stock, and as much as 75 per cent of the total rented stock. For observers from outside the Netherlands this seems an anachronism. The dominant institution within the Dutch social rented sector is the housing association: a private organisation, functioning within the public framework of the Housing Act. This paper puts forward an explanation of why the Netherlands' social h…
Mobility and spatial dynamics: An uneasy relationship
Light rail in urban regions: What Dutch policymakers could learn from experiences in France, Germany and Japan
Rent Subsidies in the USA and Housing Allowances in The Netherlands: Worlds Apart
Redifferentiation of the Urban Housing Stock in the Netherlands: A Strategy to Prevent Spatial Segregation
In advanced countries the issue of spatial segregation is perceived as a major problem. In many urban neighbourhoods spatial concentrations of social insecurity, criminality and vandalism can be observed. The political challenge is to improve the quality of life in cities; a strategy has been adopted in several countries to promote mixed-income urban areas (Turner, 1997). Since 1995, the Dutch government has gradually become aware of the looming …
The present and future of income‐related housing support: Debates in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper examines income‐related housing support in Britain and the Netherlands. It considers the main issues that are at stake in current policy discussions, compares the arguments that are put forward in the two countries and draw conclusions about the future of income‐related housing support. In both Britain and the Netherlands political discussions about the possible introduction of housing vouchers are observed. The most complicated issues…
Recent Changes in the Social Rented Sector in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has a large and differentiated stock of social rented dwellings, forming more than 40 per cent of the total housing stock. Housing associations are by far the largest providers of housing services in this sector. Traditionally, these associations were subsidised heavily but since 1995 Dutch government has no longer directly subsidised these associations. This paper deals with changes in Dutch housing associations in a period (1988…
City profile: The Hague
The path to successful urban renewal: Current policy debates in the Netherlands
Changing urban housing markets in advanced economies
For decades, the main distinguishing feature of urban housing markets in advanced economies has been suburbanization. Many people with middle and higher incomes have left the city and settled in the suburbs. The spending power associated with the city centre is lost to the suburbs, which have become increasingly prosperous. The Americans have a word for the legacy of this trend. They call it the ‘doughnut city’: empty buildings, derelict areas, c…
Social Housing Finance in Europe: Trends and Opportunities
The central topic of this contribution is the financing of the social rented sector in seven countries in western Europe: the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, France and Sweden. Since 1975, the macro housing quota has increased in all seven countries, but most of all in the Netherlands. Property subsidies have been reduced; housing allowances have become more important. The differences in size of the social rented sector rem…
Improving or Endangering Housing Policies? Recent Changes in the Dutch Housing Allowance Scheme
Dutch Urban Policy: A Promising Perspective for the Big Cities
Squatters in Amsterdam: Urban Social Movement, Urban Managers or Something Else
A model for the analysis of the decline of postwar housing
Economic and demographic stagnation, housing and housing policy: The case of the Netherlands (1974–1984)
This article investigates how housing and housing policy in the Netherlands developed in a period of economic and demographic stagnation (1974–1984). It is argued that there have been some policy adjustments, but that the housing sector has been able to hold its own reasonably well in the political arena. Public spending on housing as a percentage of the national budget since 1978 has risen. This is the result of the strong position of the intere…
Housing subsidies in the Netherlands: Origins of a Parliamentary Inquiry
Urban Development of Chinese Metropolises
New Profiles of Urbanization and Housing Provision: Introduction to the Special Issue
Housing policy in the Netherlands: Changing Priorities
Rent tax and filtering charge
In the Netherlands proposals for a rent tax or filtering charge have a long history. This article outlines the nature of such proposals and argues against their introduction
The reform of housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
European Cities: Changing Urban Structures in a Changing World
Maastricht treaty: Consequences for national housing policies
European integration will have several effects on national housing policies. The major responsibility for policy formulation and policy implementation in housing will remain with national and local governments. Nevertheless, the Maastricht Treaty will have important implications for housing through several channels: factor mobility, competition policy and liberalisation of markets, economic growth, lower inflation, cuts in government spending, ta…
Planning the Randstad: Between Economic Growth and Sustainability
The possibilities and limitations in internationalising the economy of the Randstad are considered, taking into account criteria of sustainability. The Randstad has a central position in the West European urban core region. National physical planning policies are strongly focused on the Randstad. A number of strategic projects are being developed to promote the attractiveness of the Randstad. At the same time, initiatives have been taken to stren…
Infrastructure policy in the Randstad Holland: Struggle Between Accessibility and Sustainability
How to abolish social housing? The Dutch case
Colourful Districts: West European cities moving towards multi-ethnicity
Formerly we thought that North America and Australia were the continents of immigration and that Western Europe was one of emigration rather than immigration. Meanwhile we know better. Although the proportion of the West European population in the world is systematically declining, Western Europe is now confronted with net migration. In addition, for the years to come it is expected that extensive flows of immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe a…
Recent Changes in the Social Rented Sector in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has a large and differentiated stock of social rented dwellings, forming more than 40 per cent of the total housing stock. Housing associations are by far the largest providers of housing services in this sector. Traditionally, these associations were subsidised heavily but since 1995 Dutch government has no longer directly subsidised these associations. This paper deals with changes in Dutch housing associations in a period (1988…
Growth and stagnation in social housing: What is ‘social’ in the social rented sector
Many West European countries are currently reducing their social rented sector. New construction of social rented housing is avoided, while the sale of social rented dwellings is advocated. This paper is an attempt to explain the stagnation in social rented housing, which in some countries has reached crisis point. In addition, the changes within the social rented sector are dealt with. In many places, we observe a move towards a more market‐orie…
Social rented housing: Recent changes in Western Europe — introduction
Market-Oriented Housing Policy: A Contradiction In Terms. Recent Dutch Experiences
Dutch Urban Policy: A Promising Perspective for the Big Cities
Redifferentiation of the Urban Housing Stock in the Netherlands: A Strategy to Prevent Spatial Segregation
In advanced countries the issue of spatial segregation is perceived as a major problem. In many urban neighbourhoods spatial concentrations of social insecurity, criminality and vandalism can be observed. The political challenge is to improve the quality of life in cities; a strategy has been adopted in several countries to promote mixed-income urban areas (Turner, 1997). Since 1995, the Dutch government has gradually become aware of the looming …
Improving or Endangering Housing Policies? Recent Changes in the Dutch Housing Allowance Scheme
Coordination in Planning Public Transport: Evidence from the Netherlands
Towards Undivided Cities: The Potential of Economic Revitalisation and Housing Redifferentiation
The 'undivided city' has become a major policy aim of today's local urban politicians. Therefore, adequate insight in the relevant dimensions affecting the urban social divide seems to be required, if only to be able to formulate proper policy strategies. However, whereas the literature reveals that various factors are responsible for the rise of divided cities, with perhaps global economic restructuring processes and welfare state differences as…
Undivided Cities in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Political Rhetoric
In various countries we observe governments aiming to produce mixed income areas to reduce or prevent spatial segregation. This almost always implies a redifferentiation, or restructuring of the housing stock of low-income areas. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. Redifferentiation and restructuring are based on the idea that solutions to the problems of spatial segregation and concentration can be found in the housing stock. Thi…
Political science (54 works) · Economics (51 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (46 works) · Business (35 works) · Geography (28 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Economic growth (26 works) · Housing Market and Economics (24 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (21 works)