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  • The Dutch Household Mortgage System: Unveiling Its Connection to Neoliberalism

    DIX Why should I opt for buying a house? “I want to buy my own house.” After renting for over 5 years in the Netherlands, Ashely (pseudonym) made her decision to purchase a self-owned property. She arrived in the Netherlands in 2017 to pursue her education at Wageningen University & Research, followed by works in…

  • How social was the social loan system?

    In 2015, the Dutch government said good-bye to the basic grant and laid out the so-called ‘social loan system’ for students. At the time of writing this blog, this policy has been reversed: as of September 2023, most students are entitled to a basic grant again. In this article, I, myself a student who misses…