10 years of ineffective discriminatory policy Local governments are allowed to exclude unemployed people from rental housing in problem neighbourhoods. Now that governments are allowed to screen for past criminal and disorderly behaviour, it’s time to reconsider ten years of discriminatory policy. Gwen van Eijk • March 30, 2016
Neighbourhoods in the limelight At present, hardly a day goes by when the Schilderswijk in the Hague is not negatively portrayed in the news. Some years ago, Oosterwei in Gouda suffered the same fate. Joanne van der Leun • September 24, 2014
Hurray, celebrate the city? Rotterdam has finally been acknowledged as an ‘attractive city’, while Amsterdam has been declared an ‘undivided city’. New urban politicians may have their electoral victory today. A time to celebrate? Gwen van Eijk • March 19, 2014
Principle-free politics New proposals to improve deprived urban neighbourhoods in Rotterdam are discriminatory. A new policy strategy is emerging: experimenting as a way to go around existing legislation. Gwen van Eijk • October 31, 2012
