Peer Smets
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peer Smets is employed at the Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research mainly focuses on urban habitat conditions (housing and its living environment) in low-income neighbourhoods in southern and western countries. Attention is also paid to perceptions which determine its liveability. He has published on urban segregation, housing, housing finance, government bureaucracy, and social life in neighbourhoods.