Jana Verstraete

Jana Verstraete holds a Master degree in Adult Educational Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2011) and a M.Sc. degree in Sociology (Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2012). Her research interests include different forms of housing exclusion, such as discrimination, evictions and homelessness. Her PhD focuses on discrimination on the private rental market in Flanders (Belgium). It reveals which selection and discrimination strategies landlords and real estate brokers develop in their daily practices. It also sheds light on the motivations, reasoning and justifications that go along these strategies.

Research:

Discrimination
Eviction
Housing Exclusion
Private Rental Market

Key Publications:

Verstraete, J. & Moris, M. (2019). Action–reaction. Survival strategies of tenants and landlords in the private rental sector in Belgium. Housing Studies, 34 (4), 588-608.

Verstraete, J. & Verhaeghe, PP. (2019). Ethnic discrimination upon request? Real estate agents' strategies for discriminatory questions of clients. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. DOI: 10.1007/s10901-019-09721-8.

Verstraete, J., De Decker, D., & Vermeir, D. (2019). Evictions in Belgium, a neglected yet pressing issue. In: Kenna, P., Nasarre-Aznar, S., Sparkes, P., & Schmid, C. U. (Eds.), Loss of Homes and Evictions across Europe. A Comparative Legal and Policy Examination. Camberley Surrey: Edward Elgar Publishing, 66-94.

Verstraete, J., Vermeir, D., & De Decker, P. (2019). 'We Shall Not Discriminate!': Can/Will Flanders' Private Rental Sector Keep Up to Their Promise? In: M. Vols & C. U. Schmid, Houses, Homes and the Law. Studies in housing law, Volume 3, pp. 253-285. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing.

De Decker, P., Meeus, B., Pannecoucke, I., Schillebeeckx, E., Verstraete, J., Volckaert, E. (Eds.) (2015). Woonnood in Vlaanderen. Feiten/mythen/voorstellen. Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: Garant.