Vinex is a policy briefing note of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Netherlands)

The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment was a Dutch ministry. It was responsible for policies on public housing, spatial planning, the environment and the housing of national government agencies...

 (Ministry of VROM) released in 1988. Large outer city areas were pointed out by the policy for massive new housing development.

Main points of the VINEX policy

To accommodate the increasing population in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 the Ministry of VROM determined a number of main points in the Vinex-document for the construction of new housing districts starting in 1993. New districts had to be placed near existing town centers and had to contribute to the following aims:

• Endorsement of existing malls (Increasing the potential number of customers)
• Limit the removals of unsatisfied inhabitants in medium-large cities
• Protection of open areas by concentrating the agglomerations around existing medium-large cities
• Limit traffic between houses, work and stores (short distances offer more possibilities for public transport
  Public transport
  Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...
  
  , bicycles and walking)

The Vinex-locations also had to diminish the unfair pricing of housing. This means that certain households live in housing that is too affordable when compared to their income, as a result of which these houses no longer become available to households with a lower income. So they tried to solve the shortage of affordable housing

Affordable housing

Affordable housing is a term used to describe dwelling units whose total housing costs are deemed "affordable" to those that have a median income. Although the term is often applied to rental housing that is within the financial means of those in the lower income ranges of a geographical area, the...

by luring wealthier households to the more expensive Vinex-locations. Nevertheless, the Vinex-locations had a determined share of affordable rentable houses.

Resources

• Jelte Boeijenga, Jeroen Mensink: Vinex Atlas, 010 Publishers, 2008, ISBN 9789064505942

External links

• Google Earth Community Downloadable Google Earth placemark of Vinex-locations