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Amsterdam Social Housing: A Primer
online-publication, print-publication
YEAR:
2018
TYPE:
Article published in Assemble Papers #10, October 2018. Photography by Tjaša Kalkan.
2018
TYPE:
Article published in Assemble Papers #10, October 2018. Photography by Tjaša Kalkan.
INFO:
The residential variety across Amsterdam city is stunning. Some rents are high, but many more are controlled, kept affordable by non-profit associations that deliver the bulk of housing in the Netherlands. From the expressive brickwork of early 20th-century workers’ dwellings to a new generation of refugee-inclusive youth housing, this article explores the system of affordable housing allocation in Amsterdam.
The residential variety across Amsterdam city is stunning. Some rents are high, but many more are controlled, kept affordable by non-profit associations that deliver the bulk of housing in the Netherlands. From the expressive brickwork of early 20th-century workers’ dwellings to a new generation of refugee-inclusive youth housing, this article explores the system of affordable housing allocation in Amsterdam.