The Ymere housing association will reduce the maximum average rent increase for social housing from 1 July 2022 from 2.3 percent to 1.6 percent. That is the outcome after negotiations with SHY (Joint Tenants Organizations Ymere).
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Nationally, an annual rent increase of a maximum of 2.3 percent is permitted for social housing. In the free sector this is 3.3 percent per year.
The tenants’ organization has approached Ymere because it believes that the maximum rent increase ‘is simply no longer feasible’. “Inflation and energy prices are rising rapidly while a large group of tenants are already financially stuck,” says Wilma van Lijf, chairman of the SHY. In addition, the tenants’ organization believes that a housing association such as Ymere has a social responsibility towards tenants. “Ymere has now fulfilled that responsibility in concrete terms. We are happy with that.”
The housing association and tenants’ organization reached agreement on 18 March about Ymere’s proposed rent adjustment. In addition, Ymere informs SHY that it will also take extra measures to absorb the biggest blows for tenants who are financially stuck. “People who get into trouble must be helped,” Ymere writes. “We will work together for that.”
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