The Authority for Housing Corporations (Aw) has published the new guidelines for integrity. With this, the Aw shares cases and topics in the field of integrity and fraud that they encounter in practice and important lessons that can be drawn from them. This years guidelines focus on the risk of fraud in allocations. Additionally, there is a reflection on the guidelines from 2024.
The Aw sees an increase in the number of reports of fraud in the allocation of housing. While in the period 2023-2024 there were 10 reports, this number has risen to 15 in the past year (2024-2025). To support corporations with this risk, the guidelines delve deeper into the various forms this fraud can take. The publication includes an interview with a housing corporation director about their experiences and provides, based on recommendations from the sector itself, practical tools to prevent fraud in housing allocation as much as possible.
Reflection on the 2024 Guidelines
The 2024 guidelines focused on case studies involving fraud cases in the construction sector with (sub)contractors and installers. The number of reports on this subject remains relevant with 10 reports in the past year (compared to 13 in 2023-2024). Therefore, the new guidelines briefly reflect on the previously shared signals and recommendations, supplemented with two examples from practice.
With the annual integrity guidelines, the Aw shares cases and topics they encounter in their supervision. The goal is to inform corporations, create awareness, and strengthen the sector in safeguarding integrity and protecting socially designated assets. This contributes to public and political trust in the sector and thus also to the execution and realization of the societal tasks assigned to them.
