{"id":142054,"date":"2023-12-09T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudaalten.nl\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/public-housing-association\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:10:21","slug":"public-housing-association","status":"publish","type":"organisatie","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/organisation\/public-housing-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Housing Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" >\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle has-large-font-size is-style-text-subtitle--1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;Vereniging tot Verbetering der Volkshuisvesting&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Dutch people lived in appalling conditions. During the course of the 19th century, this prompted citizens and workers to establish public housing associations. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1912 werd in Aalten een comit\u00e9 gevormd onder leiding van <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/persoon\/monnik-adriaan-johannes-willem\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"10792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">burgemeester Monnik<\/a> om te komen tot een vereniging tot verbetering der volkshuisvesting. Het jaar erop vond de oprichting plaats.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrations at Volkshuisvesting<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1981 verhuisde <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/plaats\/aalten\/dijkstraat\/15-17\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">textielfabriek Wisselink<\/a> aan de Dijkstraat naar het industrieterrein. Op het vrijkomende terrein werden 120 woningen gebouwd, de tegenwoordige Driessenshof. Maar voordat de voormalige weverij werd afgebroken, organiseerde de Vereniging tot verbetering van de Volkshuisvesting er een uitgebreid programma aan feestelijkheden voor de Aaltense bevolking:<\/p>\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6aab27cb7716d&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6aab27cb7716d\" class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1592\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" 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A few years later, a merger followed with De Volkswoning in Enschede (5,100 homes). Two years later, the head office moved from Groenlo to Enschede. In 2022, De Woonplaats owned almost 17,000 homes, of which approximately 2,300 were in the municipality of Aalten.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1912, a committee was formed in Aalten with the aim of establishing an association to improve public housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":142051,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"thema":[1991],"class_list":["post-142054","organisatie","type-organisatie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thema-landscape"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public Housing Association | Old Aalten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Association for the Improvement of Public Housing was founded in Aalten in 1913. 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