Print Email Facebook Twitter Owner-occupiers and the quality of their dwellings Title Owner-occupiers and the quality of their dwellings Author Meijer, F.M. Tambach, M. Visscher, H.J. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2012-09-11 Abstract Home-owners are in principal responsible for maintaining the physical quality of their dwellings. It is in their own interest to do this in an adequate manner, but all kinds of constraints can and do occur in practice. Lack of financial means and insufficient (technical or practical) knowledge are only two of the possible barriers. The quality of owner-occupied housing sector exceeds the individual interest, there are also general concerns to consider. Qualitative seriously substandard owner-occupied dwellings can have various negative effects on the neighbourhood. This paper is based on an on-going research project on the quality and maintenance situation of the owner-occupied sector in the Netherlands. Within this project almost 4.000 Dutch home–owners have recently been questioned about issues concerning the quality of their dwelling, the maintenance actions they undertake, the problems they encounter and the help or advise they would like to get. This paper presents the first results. The results especially will give insight in the way home-owners cope with maintaining the quality of their dwellings. Are they doing an adequate job or are interventions of the Dutch authorities (for parts of the sector) necessary? Subject home-ownershousing qualityhousing stockmaintenancepolicy instruments To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cc7bc6f9-c39c-4cf5-b62f-6bf8b99ea600 Publisher Arizona State University ISBN 978-1-84219-840-7 Source RICS COBRA 2012, Proceedings of the Construction, Building and Real Estate Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 11-13 September 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 Meijer, F.M.Tambach, M.Visscher, H.J. Files PDF 283379.pdf 746.82 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cc7bc6f9-c39c-4cf5-b62f-6bf8b99ea600/datastream/OBJ/view