Comparative Housing

Comparative Housing Tenure Structure in the UK and Holland

2005

ABSTRACT

Rehashing the saying A man is known by his friends ' as A man is known by his tenure ' we meet the demand of the day . On the threshold of globalisation it is especially interesting to compare tenure procedures in the UK , always being detached from the continental political and economical overall , and one of the EU members , the Netherlands . These two countries have much in common as far as history of housing and tenure structure are concerned , but at the

same time vary deeply in housing market changes , brought to life by different political and economical methods

The goal of the present is to compare these two countries ' tenure structures from the economical , political and social points of view Previewed by a general survey for each of the state body , the comparative case part enlists the most significant tendencies

Comparative Housing Tenure Structure in the UK and Holland

GENERAL SURVEY

TENURE STRUCTURE of the UK

By now the housing structure in the UK has formed in the roll of the twentieth-century town renovation and slum clearance policies . From the 1930s the populations of large city-centres were removed to new towns usually located in the countryside , or to new council estates in the suburbs . Historically housing structure , consisting of more than 25 million domestic dwellings , is divided into public and private sectors The greater prices and prestige are given to the private detached property . The public is a subsidized from local government authorities or housing associations (non-profit-making bodies which manage and build homes for rent and sale with the aid of government grants ) sector and is inhabited mainly by people with low incomes

The famous British principle My home is my castle ' is vividly shown in the following dwelling types distribution according to the type of accommodation (in percentage

Source : Living in Britain 2002 , published 2004 National Statistics Website

According to tenure classification there are owner occupation , which is dominant (68 of 20 ,500 ,000 dwellings in 2002 , and social rented (19 Within the latter sector , local authority (LA ) housing accounts for 13 and Housing Association (HA ) housing for 6

Ownership is favourably granted by the UK citizens , though not all of those who are craving to become a house owner can purchase a dwelling The most popular is social rented housing . It 's interesting to mention that the proportions of social housing in England at least depend on such a factor as region . This is vividly proved in Census Briefing One Housing Tenure Structure in England . The largest proportion of HA housing in England (9 of district , as well as in the South East and North West regions . The East Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside regions have the smallest proportions . In regions where the quantity of social sector dwellings is high , there are more LA dwellings than HA stock holdings . In contrast in regions with the smaller social sector LA and HA are relatively equal In rural...