How do you deal with housing for status holders?
The rules change often. The housing shortage is significant. And working with chain partners is not always easy. How do you maintain control in such a situation? And how do you continue to learn from and with each other?
That is why the province of Gelderland organizes the Community of Practice (CoP) Housing Status Holders. This network helps professionals working on housing to move forward together. You learn from others, develop solutions, and build a strong network that continues even after the end.
What is a Community of Practice?
A Community of Practice is a network of professionals who learn and work together on a challenging issue. In the CoP:
- you search together for concrete solutions;
- you learn how collaboration can be more effective;
- you build relationships that will also be valuable in the future.
This approach has been successfully used for some time, for example in integration trajectories. Especially when circumstances and frameworks are constantly changing or unclear, a CoP helps to achieve results anyway.
How does the CoP Housing Status Holders work?
6 to 9 teams participate.
- Each team consists of 3 people: civil servants and chain partners (such as housing corporations).
- In 3 longer and 3 shorter meetings, you work on your own issues and they become stronger together as a network.
- If extra knowledge is needed? We will provide that.
- Experience shows that the networks also continue to learn and collaborate actively after the end.
What does participation yield?
The CoP Housing Status Holders:
- supports you and your own local network in working on housing for status holders;
- lets you learn from other municipalities in Gelderland;
- ensures new ideas and concrete solutions arise;
- makes your network stronger and better prepared for unexpected situations;
- often gives participants more job satisfaction, control, and understanding.
What do we ask of you?
- You participate together with colleagues and/or chain partners such as housing corporations.
- You want to tackle the difficult issues in your municipality. You make time to participate in:
Meetings in Arnhem:- Thursday, November 6, 2025, from 12:00 - 17:00 hours
- Thursday, January 8, 2026, from 12:00 - 17:00 hours
- Thursday, April 9, 2026, from 12:00 - 17:00 hours
- Online sessions: 3 times 2 hours (December 2025, February and March 2026)
Participation is free, we start with lunch at 12:00 hours, the program runs from 13:00 to 17:00 hours.
We ask for active presence and input during the meetings.
