Ageing of the population in European cities creates fundamental challenges with regard to employment, pensions, health care and other age-related services. Many older people want to live independent lives as long as possible. This aspiration is currently strongly supported by many local governments. …

In our time, professions are passed on form father to child less and less, and some professions related to craftsmanship are disappearing, being replaced by industrial production. I come from a family of wooden artisan, and I witness what happened to my grandfather when he could not work anymore: deprived …

Deze dag zochten we met elkaar de verbinding op binnen en buiten de vastgoedorganisaties. Met diverse prominente sprekers waar onder Friso de Zeeuw, Praktijkhoogleraar Gebiedsontwikkeling TU Delft, Onno Hoff Director Fundmanagement Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance en Birgitte de Maar, Raad van bestuur …

Purpose - Housing associations make too small a contribution to society, the government has to step in too frequently because of maladministration, and the associations’ executives are often unaware of the far-reaching impact of their decisions. These are the conclusions of new academic research conducted …

BACKGROUND: Asset-based approaches have become popular in public health. As yet it is not known to what extent health and welfare professionals are able to identify and mobilise individual and community health assets. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand professional's perceptions of health …

There is a shortage of housing and people with a lower income suffer most from this. Vacant buildings are transformed to provide quick housing for them, but it is not sure whether this provides a comfortable home, both from an indoor climate and a meaning making perspective. Existing material about completed …

How to find out what students, starters, and other new households of transformed buildings need to create a home environment with a comfortable climate without losing meanings attributed to the home?

From the article: "Abstract Maintenance processes of Dutch housing associations are often still organized in a traditional manner. Contracts are based on lowest price instead of ‘best quality for lowest price’ considering users’ demands. Dutch housing associations acknowledge the need to improve their …

The growing demand for affordable and sustainable houses combined with the large existing real estate stock and Europe 's sustainability objectives makes it likely that renovation is a fixed part of the real estate strategy of housing corporations. The apparent postponement of the strategic decision …

In Nederland zijn er te weinig woningen te koop of te huur voor starters. Voor deze groep woningzoekenden, die de maximale koopsom van €245.000 kunnen financieren, is het zeer lastig een geschikte woning te vinden. Dit heeft te maken met het beperkte aanbod woningen in de prijscategorie en de lange wachtlijsten. …