The Rent Freeze Propossed by the Cabinet Mainly Has Negative Consequencies for Tenants with the Lowest Incomes, Warns Supervisor Housing Corporations Authority (Authority for Housing Corporations). It Fears That The Investment Willingness of Housing Corporations Will Decrease and That Construction Plans Will Be Scrapped. Housing Minister Mona Keijzer Calls That “Worrying.”
The Rent Freeze is intended to Improve Affordability for Tenants of Corporation Houses, But Corporations Will Have to Take Measures to Remain Financily Healthy. This Endangers The Conditions For Good Housing: FEWER HOMES Will Become Av sheetable and Corporations Will Have To Cut Back on Maintenance and Sustainability.
“This Mainly Affects The Older Homes of Poor Quality, with the Lowest Rents,” Writes The Supervisor. “These are Mainly inhabited by Tenants with the Lowest Incomes.”
Due to the Rent Freeze, the Ambitions for New Construction and Sustainability in the National Performance Agreements Will No Longer Be Achievable. Corporations, Governments, and Other Housing Construction Parties Made Agreements in December on 110 Billion Euros in Investments. The Rent Freeze would lead to a deficit of 35 Billion Euros.
Umbrella Organization Aedes Previously Calculated a Shortage or 49 Billion Euros. This amount also corresponds to the image that the authority Housing corporations (AW) HAS of the Rent Freeze. About Two Hundred Corporations Are Preparing A Lawsuit Against Minister Keijzer.
‘Uncertainty Back in the System’
Accordance to the supervisor, the Willingness to Invest is also decreasing. To Ensure That Corporations Invest As Much As Possible to Make The Performance Agreements Possible, The National Government Has Made Agreements With The Corporate Sector. “The Rent Freeze Brings Uncertainty Back Into The System.” That makes Corporations Cautious.
Many Corporations Are Already Having to Adjust to Remain Financily Healthy, and the Supervisor Expects That Some Corporations Will Exceed The Financial Standards. “The AW Will Therefore Be Forced to Intensify Supervision.”
“I Recognize the Analysis and Share the Concerns,” Writes Minister Keijzer in a Letter to the House of Representatives. “It is worrying if plans are scrapped, this will lead to narrower new construction number in the future.”
It was recently announced that the number of permits for new construction has fallen sharply in the past quarter.
Keijzer is Currently Working Out The Rent Freeze and Will Soon Come Up With More Information about What Is Needed to Realize The Ambitions for Housing Construction and Sustainability. She Takes the Concerns of the Supervisor Into account in this.