DISMANTLING OR PRAGMATIC ADAPTATION? ON THE RESTYLING OF WELFARE AND HOUSING POLICIES IN BELGIUM

Pascal De Decker

European Journal of Housing Policy, 2004, vol. 4, issue 3, 261-281

Abstract: This paper is framed within a broad discourse on the withdrawal of the state from involvement with welfare issues. There is no doubt that in Belgium welfare state arrangements have undergone significant changes (for example, cuts in unemployment benefit). However, despite these changes, the notion that the state has withdrawn from welfare issues does not hold, either in general or with respect to housing. We first highlight the major features and changes in the Belgian welfare state and show how it has been restyled. We then examine housing policy–basically a regionalized matter–in Flanders. After the near disappearance in the 1980s, in the 1990s new legislation, the introduction of new institutions and the investment of more money has led to the rebirth of housing as a social and political matter.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/1461671042000307297

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