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Housing in Amsterdam and the Netherlands: Swinging back from a Market to a Regulatory Approach

In trying to understand Australia’s housing problems and potential solutions, we often turn to countries like the Netherlands – famed for its historically strong social sector and rights for renters. This talk, by esteemed housing expert Professor Richard Ronald from the University of Amsterdam, charts the evolution of the Dutch system over several decades of change. The story begins with the establishment of a highly regulated housing sector. In Amsterdam – a rich global city with a higher GDP per capital than Sydney, 68% of households occupied rent controlled or non profit housing association housing in 1995. The second part of the story looks at how this system was transformed in the 2000s/2010s while retaining a large stock of social housing (still around 50% in 2021), and the physical manifestations of this transformation on Amsterdam’s urban fabric. However, growing unmet housing demand and escalating price pressures have seen a recent swing back to rent controls and social housing. The final chapter of the story looks at the last two years over which time the focus has been on establishing a rent controlled middle segment.