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Housing and governance in the Netherlands
international Conference on social housingMilano, 5th march 2009
Rogier Noyon, board of directors of Stadgenoot
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History of Dutch social housing
— First housing associations 1850-1900— Housing Act 1901 — Large increase in number of housing associations— Small scale— Large production of houses 1916-1925— Production after world war II— Government’s role— 1995, housing associations more or less independent— Building without subsidies
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Today in the Netherlands
— 16,5 million inhabitants— 7 million houses— 4 million owner-occupied houses (56%)— 3 million rented houses (44%)— 2,3 million social houses (33%)
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Today in Amsterdam
— 740.000 inhabitants— 380.000 houses— 103.000 owner-occupied houses (27%)— 277.000 rented houses (73%)— 192.000 social houses (51%)
Stadgenoot
35.000 houses in Amsterdam.
400 new houses each year
Social houses are not profitable
How to build without subsidies?
We are rich!
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72 areas
• 10 areas with relatively many dwellings, strong influence
• 20 average areas/ influence
• 22 areas with little dwelling/ influence
• 20 areas without dwellings/ influence
huur
exploiteren
Our stock as a train
woningen
verkoopnieuwbouw
Our stock as a train
woningen
huur
aankoppelen afkoppelenexploiteren
verkoopnieuwbouw woningen
waardever-zilvering
kwaliteits-verbetering
revolving fund
huur
afkoppelen
Our stock as a trainexploiterenaankoppelen
Stadgenoot
We are rich!
But:
Who owns Stadgenoot?
Nobody!
Regulation by
1 law
2 financing structure
3 self regulation
— Assure good quality in dwellings— Guarantee financial continuity— Priority to special attention groups— Involve tenants in policy and management— Quality of life— Housing of those in need of care
Rules governing social rented sector: BBSH
Financing and guarantee structure
— First security: Central Fund (CFV)— Secondary security: social housing guarantee fund (WSW)— Tertiary security: state backup— Open capital market— Financing by colleagues
Housing Housing organisationorganisation
Housing Housing organisationorganisation
GovernmentGovernmentGovernmentGovernment Local Local authorityauthority
Local Local authorityauthority
TenantsTenants
Rent subsidy
Rent subsidy
RentRent
FinancialFinancial institutionsinstitutionsFinancialFinancial
institutionsinstitutions
CentralCentral FundFund
CentralCentral FundFund
WSWWSWWSWWSW
LoansLoans
Guarantee
Guarantee
SubsidySubsidy
Current issues
— Relationship government vs. social housing organisations (more regulation or opting out): more selfregulation— Production needed, but what about the financial crisis?— Investing in neighbourhoods— Corporate Tax, like the private sector— European dimension— Imageproblem (“associations have lots of – public - money and do nothing”)— Focus on Good Governance in a complex world
Self regulation
Good governance: three items:
- Strong demands on functioning of the board of directors
- Strong demands on functioning supervisory board. More internal control means less or more selective control by the government
- Stuctural proces of sociale accountability towards stakeholders
Tool = Governance Code
Governance Code— Aedes (alliance of housing associations) made the AedesCode in 2002 — The code contains standards for good management, control, transparancy, external responsibility and financial control. What to do and what not!— Guidelines for the internal control (what is a good supervisory board, how many people, how to select them, integrity)
Measuring is knowing:
— examination by an independent external organisation, check on the social and financial preformance)— Benchmarking, comparison to other housing associations
Transparancy: from vertical to horizontal accountability
—Without transparancy no accountability!—Transparancy towards tenants and stakeholders
Examples:
Publish your policy (annual account)
Publish your internal controlsystem (regulation of the board)
Limit the payment of the boardmembers (The Balkenende norm)
Structure Stadgenoot
Board of executives
Supervisory board
tenants
employees
management
Local authorities
stakeholders
Representatives of tenants
2 members
Performance deals
Social anchorage
organisation
Supervisory Board
—Surroundings more complex: quality and professionality on a higher level—Board watches over the principles, housing efforts, finance and relation with stakeholders—Board is sparring partner on a strategic level for the board of directors—Board watches over the integrety within the organisation (based on the governance code)—Not on the chair of the board of directors, but not to far away (proper distance)—Board approves the annual report and the budget —Board is the employer of the board of directors
How good are we in being good?
— Surveys— Conferences— Debate— Publications— Sponsoring— Etc.
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Any questions?