Waanders, Eline (2023) Narrating precarious housing - An analysis of political narratives surrounding temporary rental contracts in the Netherlands. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The share of precarious housing, defined as temporary rental contracts in this study, has been growing gradually over the past decades in the Netherlands. Several negative effects came along with the opening up of legal possibilities for these contracts, such as mental health issues for renters and decreased neighborhood livability. However, in the more recent years, criticism on the rise of temporary rental contracts has been growing, leading to a policy shift, partly limiting the legal possibilities to offer temporary contracts again. Therefore this research focuses on the period 2015 to 2023, in which this shift has happened. It aims to explore the context in which decisions are made, and by what decisions are informed and legitimized. Two strands of research are used for this: first narratives surrounding temporary rental contracts within the political context are uncovered: by analyzing debates held in the House of Representatives through the lens of the narrative policy framework. Secondly, policy change theory is used to help understand the policy shift currently happening in 2023. In total five narratives are uncovered which can be subdivided into ‘in favor of temporary rent’ and ‘against temporary rent’. Further results of this study include the important role that ideology plays in narrative construction, as well as in who is narrating what narrative. However, the role of ideology in policy has decreased after the policy shift, making more room for evidence-based policy. Two focusing events can be pointed out as catalyzing the policy alteration on the topic of temporary rental contracts: (1) evaluations and academic research published on the negative effects of temporary rent, and a stronger relationship of new policy to these. (2) The broader recent shift in Dutch housing politics and policy which can be characterized as post-neoliberal.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Lamker, C.W. |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2023 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2023 10:46 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4435 |
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