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In any case, the Liberals are verbally opposed to such an arrangement. “The VVD does not want priority for status holders in social rented housing,” says VVD MP Peter de Groot. “People who have been on the waiting list for years should be the first to get a home.”
According to the VVD, there are other solutions to accommodate asylum seekers with residence status from the asylum reception. “As far as I am concerned, status holders are housed as much as possible in temporary residential locations, together with other people who urgently need a home,” says De Groot. “We can build flex homes quickly and we keep social rental homes available for the people who have been waiting for it for a long time.”
One in eight social rental homes must be given to status holders, according to a letter that De Jonge sent to municipalities. In that letter was the request to step up the housing of status holders, by allocating a higher percentage of social rental housing to them (not 9, but 12.5 percent).
Threatens with measures
Because asylum seekers with a residence permit do not move on to housing, they remain in the asylum reception. As a result, the asylum seekers’ centers (AZCs) are overflowing, while the influx is increasing. A third of the residents of the asylum seekers’ centers should not be there.
“Municipalities can choose to have a larger share of the vacant homes from the social housing stock allocated to permit holders in the near future,” says De Jonge about the new distribution key. His ministry previously denied priority for status holders, but the minister seems to be aiming for that in his letter to colleges. “You can help by allocating a larger share of the vacant homes to permit holders and other focus groups in the coming weeks where possible.”
The minister even threatens to take measures. Provinces have been asked to tighten up supervision and ‘attach consequences to reprehensible not being on schedule’.
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