University of Groningen
Insecure tenure
Huisman, Carla Jacqueline
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Huisman, C. J. (2020). Insecure tenure: the Precarisation of Rental Housing in the Netherlands. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.120310041
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194 INSECURE TENURE Afterword 195
AFTERWORD
‘Private renting making millions sick in England, poll shows’, was the headline of The Guardian newspaper on 15 January 2020. The arti-cle continued: ‘Unaffordable rents, poor living conditions and the risk of eviction are causing a quarter of people – about 2.7 million – to feel hopeless while more than 2 million have been made physically ill’.1 News like this, which shows how poisonously precarious the English rental market has become, reinforces my concerns about the precarisa-tion of the Dutch rental housing market. This is why I am so grateful for having been given the opportunity to do this research.
As always, it starts with Steven, who has been with me every step of the way. He read and commented on the very first incarnation of my research proposal, which I was encouraged to develop by my master tutor, dr. Walter Nicholls. Professor Clara Mulder showed trust in me by selecting me for an Ubbo Emmius position to undertake this research at the University of Groningen. She knows my weaknesses, but consist-ently helps me to focus on my strengths. Her open mind brought me to my second promotor, professor Louise Meijering, whose keen mind and gentle encouragement stimulated me to greater conceptual clarity.
While conducting this research, I was also deeply involved in devel-oping a secure, affordable and well-maintained grass-roots housing project. The collaboration with many others involved in housing asso-ciation Soweto and the Nieuwland project has been valuable to me, and it is amazing that together, we pulled it off, and people are actu-ally living and working in what we dreamt up together. Meanwhile, at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences in Groningen, at the Department of Demography, I was surrounded by smart, caring people that research very different topics, but that are united in that they all try to make the world a better place. Liesbeth, Sanne, Hinke, Shirish, Miriam, Mirjam, Ajay, Sepideh, Lei, Eva, Daniel, Billy, Nikoletta, Sergi, Roberta, Karin, Eliza, Nicola, Elda, Jodi, and all other past and present colleagues made working there a pleasure. When I learned that Ori was at the depart-ment where I had just obtained a position, I was certain that I would not be without a friend in Groningen. First Jianjun, and later Annaclau-dia showed me in different ways how nice it can be to share an office.
Finally, at difficult moments, Laura’s and Rik’s natural presence made a difference. Laura can listen and observe very well, which makes her such a good interviewer. Rik’s careful consideration of matters shines through in his work. The enthusiasm of Reza, whose ethnographic mind is reflected in his love for theory, is contagious, and only matched by that of Erik.
In Delft, I find it stimulating to work with Darinka, Gerard, Sara, Stephanie, Valentina, Vincent, and all the other people at the Housing Management Chair and more generally at the Department of Manage-ment in the Built EnvironManage-ment. In Amsterdam, the solid work carried out unpretentiously by the editors of Rooilijn makes me proud to be part of the team. For that magazine, I worked for quite some years now with Antoin and Ruszenka, who designed the cover and the inner parts of the thesis, making it as pretty as it is.
I am very happy that my mother, Jantien, will be present at my defence, she is my most faithful supporter and taught me to ask critical questions. My aunt has always taken a keen interest in my work, while my uncle listens quietly. All of the family, including my cousins, make me feel I belong. Dot, Trevor, Rob and Tracey mirror that sentiment across the sea. Elsewhere, the guys quarrelled, coaxed and hurried me along. Finally, back to Steven, with whom I started the journey of this PhD thesis, and without whom it would not have happened. But most of all, to everyone that informed this research, including all the people that immediately and spontaneously started shared their unhappy renting stories as soon as I explained my interest in insecure housing. I sincerely hope my research can contribute in a small way to making renting more secure. Thank you all.
1 Booth, R. (2020) ’Private renting making millions sick in England, poll shows’.
The Guardian, 15 Janurary, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/15/ private-renting-making-millions-sick-england-poll.
196 INSECURE TENURE Curriculum vitae 197
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal details
Name Carla Jacqueline Huisman
Email carlahuisman@cypers.nl/c.j.huisman@tudelft.nl Website cypers.nl / tudelft.nl/en/staff/c.j.huisman
Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gy3gOAMAAAA J&hl=en
Education
2009 BSc Sociology,
University of Amsterdam
2012 Research Master Social Sciences cum laude, University of Amsterdam
Research
Oct 2013-Oct 2019 Ubbo Emmius Award to conduct PhD research on own research proposal A Silent Shift: The Precarization of the Dutch
Housing Market at the Population Research Centre, Department of
Demography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Groningen University. Since 2018 part-time, supervised by prof. dr. Clara Mulder and prof. dr. Louise Meijering.
Jan 2018-Jan 2019 Postdoctoral researcher in the one-year NWO Smart Urban Regions of the Future (SURF) pop-up project Living Together,
Researching Together at the Housing Management Chair,
Depart-ment of ManageDepart-ment of the Built EnvironDepart-ment, Faculty of Archi-tecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. Supervised by prof. dr. Vincent Gruis and dr. Darinka Czischke. April 2019- January 2022 Postdoctoral researcher at the Co-Lab research
group in Collaborative housing, at the Housing Management Chair, Department of Management of the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technol-ogy. Supervised by prof. dr. Vincent Gruis and dr. Darinka Czischke.
Publications in international, refereed journals
Huisman, C. J. (2014) ‘Displacement Through Participation’. TESG 105(2),
161-174. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tesg.12048/abstract Huisman, C. J. (2016) ‘A Silent Shift? The Precarisation of the Dutch
Rental Housing Market’. Journal of Housing and the Built
Environ-ment 31(1) 93-106. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-015-9446-5
Huisman, C. J. (2016) ‘Temporary Tenancies in the Netherlands: From Pragmatic policy Instrument to Structural Housing Market Reform’. International Journal of Housing Policy 16(3) 409-422. http:// www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616718.2016.1195563 Czischke, D. & C.J. Huisman (2018) ‘Integration through
collabora-tive housing? Dutch starters and refugees forming self-managing communities in Amsterdam.’ Urban Planning, 3(4), 61-63. https:// www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/1727
Huisman, C. J. (2019) ‘Non-enforcement as a technique of governance – the case of rental housing in the Netherlands’. European Journal of
Cultural and Political Sociology 6(2) 172-200.
https://www.tandfon-line.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2018.1522263
Recent miscellaneous publications (selection)
Huisman, C. J. (2017) Editorial: ‘1967’. Rooilijn 50(2). http://archief.rooil-ijn.nl/home?issue=05002.
Huisman, C.J. (2017) Book review of: Squatting in Britain 1945-1955.
International Journal of Housing Policy 17(4) 611-613. http://www.tand-fonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19491247.2017.1338035
Huisman, C. J. (2017) Editorial: ‘Op de helft van de honderd’. Rooilijn 50(5-6). http://archief.rooilijn.nl/home?issue=05005.
Huisman, C. J. (2018) Editorial: ‘La dolce vita’. Rooilijn 51(3). http:// archief.rooilijn.nl/home?issue=05103.
Huisman, C. J. (2018) Editorial: ‘Duurzame urgentie’. Rooilijn 51(4)
http://www.rooilijn.nl/redactioneel-duurzame-urgentie/.
Huisman, C. J. (2019) ‘Top-down Collaborative Housing?’ Blog on the Co-lab website, May, https://co-lab-research.net/2019/05/06/1290/.
Recent invited public presentations (selection)
‘All Flex’ documentary on precarisation of housing by Abel Heijkamp & Julij Borštnik. Input for the documentary, onscreen appear-ance, answering questions from the audience at several
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ings together with the filmmakers, 2016. http://thefutureofwork. eu/?p=19
‘Huren wordt steeds precairder- Implicaties van en voor beleid’. Pres-entation Lunchseminar Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, Den Haag 29 June 2017.
‘Living Together, Researching Together’. Project presentation NWO Surf Pop-Up Meeting Utrecht 9 April 2018 & 4th VerDuScongres SURF in de Regio Amersfoort 29 November 2018.
‘Collective self-organisation in housing: the Dutch case’ Presentation at the international seminar on ‘Collaborative Housing’ in Amster-dam, 22 November 2018.
‘Tackling exclusion through co-housing refugees together with local tenants’. Presentation at the policy conference of the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), 31 May 2019, Porto, Portugal.
‘How to manage self-management? – On the cooperation between self-organised tenants and housing corporation professionals in a mixed Dutch-refugee housing project’, paper presented at the con-ference of the European Network of Housing Researchers (ENHR), August 2019, Athens, Greece.
‘Tijdelijke huurcontracten boeken terreinwinst op de huurwoning-markt”. Interview met Carla Huisman, door Johan van de Beld, November 2019. Corporatiegids 3 15-17.
Miscellaneous activities
2005- now Chairwoman of Housing Association Soweto 2007- now Editor, since 2013 managing editor, of Rooilijn,
