Print Email Facebook Twitter Affordable housing in an urban commons Title Affordable housing in an urban commons: The Community Land Trust as an alternative model for housing development in Rotterdam Author Wenders, Stijn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism) Contributor Romein, A. (mentor) Kleinhans, R.J. (graduation committee) Oxenaar, A.J. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities Date 2021-09-15 Abstract Trends of neoliberalisation and globalisation have led to the financialisation of housing on a global scale. This has led to the increasing deployment of state-led gentrification as a strategy for urban development, as cities aim to strengthen their position as nodes in the global economy. In the Netherlands, these trends have led to the marginalisation of social housing. As the city of Rotterdam develops ambitious plans to restructure its old city harbours into dense mixed-use districts, residents of the adjoining neighbourhood Tweebos protest the forced demolition of their social housing units in the midst of a national housing crisis. These dwellings have to make way in favour of new privately owned homes for middle-income residents as part of the municipality’s plans for city-wide socio-economic diversification.This thesis proposes an alternative development strategy for Tweebos based in the right to the city. By establishing a Community Land Trust in Tweebos, residents will be able to regain control over the development of their neighbourhood. The CLT holds the land in perpetuity, controlling rents and resale prices democratically through the neighbourhood and thus ensuring affordability. The CLT provides Tweebos residents an instrument to elevate the use value of urban space above its exchange value, a platform to participate in the production of urban space and a mechanism to fund those developments. This thesis argues that by doing so, the CLT protects the urban commons and institutionalises the right to the city. The principles of the CLT can thus help strengthen the right to the city in the Dutch system of housing development, and can provide a starting point for a stronger public housing sector in the Netherlands. Subject community land trustgentrificationright to the cityurban commonsrotterdamtweebossocial housing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:58005df5-0dd5-4b33-aa71-1c101de11e25 Coordinates 51.900167,4.507397 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Stijn Wenders Files PDF 4729323_stijnwenders_p5_report.pdf 68.86 MB PDF 4729323_stijnwenders_p5_p ... tation.pdf 85.43 MB PDF 4729323_stijnwenders_p2_report.pdf 12.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:58005df5-0dd5-4b33-aa71-1c101de11e25/datastream/OBJ2/view