
Remember Jeroen van der Veer (1964-2020)
--A key Dutch supporter of the social housing movement in Taiwan
Yi-Ling Chen, Associate Professor, School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies, University of Wyoming
Jeroen van der Veer at An-Kang Public Housing in Taipei, 2017. Picture: Ping-Yi Lu
When I wrote about how the social housing movement since 2010 revolutionarily changes Taiwan's housing policies, I forgot to mention the foreign experts who have helped the dream come true. Those people are from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, France, Demark, and many more. They played crucial roles to transfer the know-how knowledge and help persuade the central and local governments. Jeroen van der Veer, the vice director of the Amsterdam Federation of Social Housing (AFWC), is the most important one.

