Van leegstaand kantoor naar geliberaliseerde huurwoning: Aanbevelingen aan de gemeente Amsterdam ter bevordering van transformatie van leegstaande kantoren naar geliberaliseerde huurwoningen

The supply and demand of the Dutch office market is not in balance. 15,7% of all the offices are vacant. The most vacancy can be found in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a big city with a large population and a large group of immigrants. There is a shortage of different types of housing, which means that transformation of vacant offices into housing will be a good solution for both problems. A lot of vacant offices are transformed into hotels or student housing while there is also a shortage on liberalized housing for middle incomes. That is because of changes in the regulation, where the households with middle-incomes are not allowed to stay in social rented housing. On the other hand it is difficult for these people to get a mortgage. Former research has shown different stimulants that the municipality of Amsterdam used in order to stimulate the transformation of vacant offices into housing. There are also instruments designed for determining the conversion potential of vacant offices. The focus of this research is on stimulating tools for the transformation of vacant offices into liberalized rental housing for middle-incomes. Therefore three case studies of transformation of office buildings into liberalized housing have been selected and interviews with the actors who are involved in these transformations are conducted in order to find the obstacles why transformation of office into liberalized housing is not taking place on the same level like student housing or a hotel function. The findings of this thesis show that different factors are seen as obstacles, by different actors. At the end of this research a recommendation has provided to the municipality Amsterdam in order to stimulate the transformation of offices into liberalized housing.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentManagement in the Built Environmen