Housing is a basic human need and a fundamental right, but in practice, the Dutch housing market increasingly functions as a system of winners and losers. Public housing, once intended to provide an affordable roof over everyone’s head, has become highly commercialized and financialized over the past decades.
During The Evening of Our Major Housing Problem, we will focus on the structural causes of the housing crisis. Investigative journalist Thomas Bollen from Follow the Money explores the flow of money and, using the work The Machinery of Housing by cartographer Carlijn Kingma, demonstrates how policy, land scarcity and market incentives converge in a system that puts housing affordability under pressure. How can we adjust the machinery of public housing to solve our housing problem?
Be aware that this event is in Dutch.
Program
19:30 – Welcome
Opening by Brutus director Sanne ten Brink
Discussion & Analysis: Our Housing Problem
Thomas Bollen will speak with two housing seekers (Denise and Moreno) and Mieke Megawati (The Housing Protest).
This segment focuses on the concrete effects of current housing policy on people who are searching, stuck, or protesting.
In-Depth Exploration
Thomas Bollen will present a preview of an animated video based on Carlijn Kingma’s map The Machinery of Housing, providing a journalistic and analytical perspective on the mechanisms behind the housing crisis.
Panel Discussion
Followed by a panel discussion led by Thomas Bollen with:
Audience Questions
Time for questions and reflection from the audience.
21:30 – End
During The Evening of Our Major Housing Problem, we will focus on the structural causes of the housing crisis. Investigative journalist Thomas Bollen from Follow the Money explores the flow of money and, using the work The Machinery of Housing by cartographer Carlijn Kingma, demonstrates how policy, land scarcity and market incentives converge in a system that puts housing affordability under pressure. How can we adjust the machinery of public housing to solve our housing problem?
Be aware that this event is in Dutch.
Program
19:30 – Welcome
Opening by Brutus director Sanne ten Brink
Discussion & Analysis: Our Housing Problem
Thomas Bollen will speak with two housing seekers (Denise and Moreno) and Mieke Megawati (The Housing Protest).
This segment focuses on the concrete effects of current housing policy on people who are searching, stuck, or protesting.
In-Depth Exploration
Thomas Bollen will present a preview of an animated video based on Carlijn Kingma’s map The Machinery of Housing, providing a journalistic and analytical perspective on the mechanisms behind the housing crisis.
Panel Discussion
Followed by a panel discussion led by Thomas Bollen with:
Tim de Haan (D66, alderman)
Nanne de Ru (developer)
Sanne van Manen (Platform Woonopgave)
Audience Questions
Time for questions and reflection from the audience.
21:30 – End