Projects
Analysis of the housing needs and housing preferences in the city of Ghent. Focused on different target groups and urban areas Ghent University
In this qualitative research the housing curriculum, the housing needs and housing preferences for a series of target groups are mapped. This is to underpin the local housing policy, concentrating on three urban areas: the city centre, the 19th century belt and the urban fringe.
Discovering housing preferences using discrete choice experiments University of Antwerp
Housing preferences and home culture in Flanders University of Antwerp
Post-Covid housing supply in the Brussels Capital Region: changes in location choices, new forms of live-work housing and adapted built environments. KU Leuven
Housing has played a central role in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This project (Innoviris Prospective Research, 2021-2024) assumes that stay-at-home measures and permanent telework will have long-term effects on housing and working conditions, requiring a reconfiguration of housing provision and working amenities’ supply. More broadly, we consider the Covid-19 crisis as a critical juncture that genuinely challenges housing systems and ...
Housing pathways of refugees in the Flemish nebular city KU Leuven
By means of multiannual qualitative research my PhD project investigates refugees housing careers both in the past and future. While previous research on housing careers mainly used to focus on outcomes in migration countries, researchers like Firang (2018) describe the probable influence of homeland housing situations (past) on immigrants’ further housing careers, concerning housing preferences, expectations and aspirations in their ...
Managing Cost and Quality of Large Scale Housing Projects KU Leuven
The economic development, the population growth and the rural-urban migration create a huge demand on the Vietnamese housing market. At the same moment there is a growing purchasing power, but proposals have to be elaborated within strict budget constraints. Developers, avoiding risks and striving to maximize profit, supply in most cases very stereotype units. The government would like to stimulate the development of the housing stock in a ...
Where will the Flemish live in 2035? A modeling of housing needs according to well-situated residential areas. KU Leuven
In the transition from the Spatial Structure Plan Flanders (RSV) to the Spatial Policy Plan Flanders (BRV), it is important to get insight in where households are going to live and how housing preferences are evolving. The aim of this study is to use quantitative models of housing supply and demand to get a better idea of how the building shift can be shaped spatially and what the steering possibilities are to support the BRV's strategic ...
Research on discrimination in the rental housing market Hasselt University
Increasing the range for chickens in use by mobile houses, combined with the production of short rotation coppice Ghent University
Chickens with free-range access often make limited use of their free-range area; a small part of the flock is usually observed outside at any given time, and those that are outside prefer to stay close to their houses. As a consequence, the claimed welfare benefits of free-range use may not be achieved, and nutrient loads in the soil are very high close to the chicken houses. The low range use may have several reasons, such as fear of a ...