The opposition parties SP, Denk, GroenLinks and the PvdA expressed their dissatisfaction with the recent rent increase of 2.3 percent in the social rental sector. “How can someone pay a rent increase of 100 euros”, SP MP Beckerman wondered despairingly. The coalition parties understand the cabinet decision. “It is a right decision, you cannot spend money three times,” concluded CDA MP Geurts. The cabinet is also sticking to the planned rent increase for the time being.
There were many concerns about the rapidly rising mid-market rent, especially among the opposition. This concerns rents from approximately 752 euros. According to Think MP Azarkan, an apartment of no more than 100 square meters in the center of Breda quickly costs around 1800 euros. “People with an average income, teachers, police officers, have nowhere to go. Sometimes they spend more than 50 percent of their salary on housing,” said PvdA MP Nijboer. De Jonge will come up with initiatives in April to limit the mid-market rent.
scarcity
Without “building, building”, not enough can be done about the high prices, says De Jonge. “There is scarcity and that causes a price-increasing effect.”
But it will take some time to build. Because the delivery of new buildings now takes an average of 10 years: 7 years for the procedures, 3 years for the actual construction. “That’s really too long.”
And this is how we get out of the housing crisis:
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