{"id":102325,"date":"2019-08-29T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=102325"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:27","slug":"student-housing-market-to-remain-out-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/08\/29\/student-housing-market-to-remain-out-of-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Large student housing shortage expected in Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without new plans, Rotterdam will suffer the largest student housing of the Netherlands, only second to Amsterdam. That’s the conclusion of research agency ABF-research.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by the minister for housing, Kajsa Ollongren<\/a>, the ABF research agencyhas mapped out the supply of student housing in the twenty largest student cities and created projections through 2025. Thus far, the National Student Housing Monitor only focused on the demand for housing.<\/p>\n

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The Xior building on the corner of Woudestein campus is the latest addition to Rotterdam's student accomodation<\/span><\/p>

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The researchers distinguish between a fixed supply of housing traditionally occupied by students and a flexible supply appealing to starters and singles as well. The fixed supply is currently good for approximately 35 percent of the total supply of \u2018student housing units\u2019 and is expected to grow significantly faster in the years to come (1.3 percent annually) than previously (0.5 percent annual growth). This is partly due to municipal development plans<\/a>, but it is also a result of greater hesitation<\/a> among students to secure independent housing.<\/p>\n

In most of the municipalities where the student housing market was tightest in 2017-2018 (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and \u2018s-Hertogenbosch), a relatively small proportion of students live in the fixed supply, with a large proportion in the flexible supply (see Table 1). The national average is 54 percent fixed to 46 percent flexible.<\/p>\n

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