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6 Private renting in the Netherlands: set to grow?
Abstract
This chapter analyses whether the turnaround in market share of the Dutch private rental sector, from 10 per cent in 2009 to almost 13 per cent in 2021, can be interpreted as a new role of this tenure following the global urban rental affordability crisis. Based on a literature review, the chapter finds that the Dutch government facilitated the growth of the stock with a de-controlled rent and by making the control of rent prices more market conforming. At the same time, the government introduced regulations that made social renting and homeownership less accessible. As a result, when in the aftermath of the global financial crisis the shortage of housing in comparison to the rising numbers of households rose, affordability and accessibility problems reached the top of the political agenda during the national elections of 2021. In response, the government that came into office in 2022 launched a number of plans to stimulate reducing the housing shortage in a ten-year period. These plans also included re-regulating rent prices for middle-priced rental housing. These plans, as well as the quickly rising inflation in combination with the societal challenges of energy, climate and sustainability, question a continued revival of private renting.
Abstract
This chapter analyses whether the turnaround in market share of the Dutch private rental sector, from 10 per cent in 2009 to almost 13 per cent in 2021, can be interpreted as a new role of this tenure following the global urban rental affordability crisis. Based on a literature review, the chapter finds that the Dutch government facilitated the growth of the stock with a de-controlled rent and by making the control of rent prices more market conforming. At the same time, the government introduced regulations that made social renting and homeownership less accessible. As a result, when in the aftermath of the global financial crisis the shortage of housing in comparison to the rising numbers of households rose, affordability and accessibility problems reached the top of the political agenda during the national elections of 2021. In response, the government that came into office in 2022 launched a number of plans to stimulate reducing the housing shortage in a ten-year period. These plans also included re-regulating rent prices for middle-priced rental housing. These plans, as well as the quickly rising inflation in combination with the societal challenges of energy, climate and sustainability, question a continued revival of private renting.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures, tables and boxes iv
- List of abbreviations vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Preface ix
- New trajectories in private rental housing 1
- Growth and change: private renting in Australia in the 21st century 18
- Rental housing dynamics and their affordability impact in the United States 42
- The Irish rental sector and the post-homeownership society: issues and challenges 69
- Private renting in England: growth, change and contestation 91
- Private renting in the Netherlands: set to grow? 117
- Suppressive regulation and lower political esteem: private renting in Germany at the beginning of decline 137
- Private renting in Denmark: foreign investors in the crosshairs 161
- Norway: booming housing market and increasing small-scale landlordism 181
- Private rented markets in Spain and housing affordability 208
- The short-run impact of COVID-19 on the private rented sector 238
- Change and continuity in private rental housing 260
- Index 277
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures, tables and boxes iv
- List of abbreviations vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- Preface ix
- New trajectories in private rental housing 1
- Growth and change: private renting in Australia in the 21st century 18
- Rental housing dynamics and their affordability impact in the United States 42
- The Irish rental sector and the post-homeownership society: issues and challenges 69
- Private renting in England: growth, change and contestation 91
- Private renting in the Netherlands: set to grow? 117
- Suppressive regulation and lower political esteem: private renting in Germany at the beginning of decline 137
- Private renting in Denmark: foreign investors in the crosshairs 161
- Norway: booming housing market and increasing small-scale landlordism 181
- Private rented markets in Spain and housing affordability 208
- The short-run impact of COVID-19 on the private rented sector 238
- Change and continuity in private rental housing 260
- Index 277
