Projects
Hidden housing needs and innovative housing initiatives KU Leuven
‘Innovative' housing initiatives (Brusselmans et al., 2019) are founded because the 'traditional' channels do not sufficiently guarantee the right to housing for its socially vulnerable users. Their creation illustrates the existence and emergence of a multitude of housing needs. Since starting a new housing initiative is not an easy task, their creation also illustrates that many housing needs and housing solutions remain under the radar and ...
From Housing Inequality to Sustainable, Inclusive and Affordable Housing Solutions KU Leuven
Highly ambitious in its objectives and scope and innovative in its focus, conceptualisation and methodology, EqualHouse is the first research project to integrate all dimensions of housing inequality into one transdisciplinary and transnational research design. By analysing the many aspects of housing inequality, hitherto largely studied separately, it will make key contributions to understanding of housing inequality and how it can be ...
Renting a house in Seoul: Predatory homeownership as an outcome of neoliberal housing policies in Seoul. Could urban housing stocks be managed as “commons”? KU Leuven
The proper housing provision in times of fast urbanization has been a challenging issue for many cities worldwide. Cities have managed formal or informal resources to accommodate the influx of the population, which has also contributed to the economic growth of the cities. Although scholars and policymakers have emphasized the criticality of housing policies ensuring housing rights, many empirical studies conducted in modern cities show that ...
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.
Proof of Concept for the Solidary Mobile Housing Co-Creation Model and the Realized Housing Prototype (PoC SMH) KU Leuven
In 2016, with the support of the INNOVIRIS Co-create Fund, the Department of Architecture of the KU Leuven and the NGO’s Samenlevingsopbouw Brussel (SOB) and CAW Brussel started up the ‘Solidary Mobile Housing’ (SMH) applied research project. From 2017 until today, a group of eight future inhabitants have been working together with employees of SOB and CAW, students, teachers and researchers of the Faculty/Department of Architecture of the KU ...
Multigenerational housing. Phenomenological, comparative and architectural study of a new housing concept for Flanders Hasselt University
Optimization of the functioning of the housing inspectorate in relation to the housing actors. University of Antwerp
Re-conceptualising the Right to Housing: Ethnographic research on new housing initiatives in Brussels and Antwerp KU Leuven
Based on the increasing commodification of the social housing market and the consequences this has carried for the affordability and security of housing for underprivileged residents, the wider research project this PhD is embedded in intends to (1) study the extent to which the right to housing for underprivileged residents is reclaimed in new housing strategies and through social housing activism as well as (2) the extent to which this ...
Essays on local housing and real estate brokerage markets. KU Leuven
As noted by the late housing economist John Quigley (1979), housing markets are characterized by a peculiar combination of features, such as durability, spatial fixity and multidimensional heterogeneity. The combination of these features differentiate it from other product markets and it has been shown that they have a non-negligible impact upon market outcomes in housing and real estate brokerage markets. The inherent spatial fixation and ...