Public housing sales in the Netherlands: The record and the outlook

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A brief description of the public housing system in the Netherlands provides the context for a preliminary and partial evaluation of the effects of the program of selling public rental housing to sitting tenants. In recent years, the program was virtually dead, but the Dutch government is now attempting to revive it. The evaluation is concerned with the financial effects and especially with the consequences of past sales for the continued functioning of housing associations, the operators of public housing complexes. The empirical basis of the study includes conversations with spokesmen for the associations and a pilot study among buyers of public housing units. Despite current unpopularity of the program among tenants and housing associations, the sales volume is expected to rise: to deal with their increasing financial problems, the associations will be forced to sell property.

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