Some cities in the Netherlands are against the construction of social housing

Several Dutch municipalities disagree with Dutch Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge on the types of houses they should build according to the plans in his new housing law, De Telegraaf wrote on February 23.

Under the new housing law, the Netherlands needs to build 100,000 houses a year to solve the housing shortage. De Jonge decided to “fairly” distribute this burden among all the municipalities and now they must have at least 30% of social housing in their territory.

However, according to the authorities of some regions, 30% of social housing is an unattainable goal.

“This will make it possible to build only social rental housing in our municipality in the coming years”, – said Councilor Paul Slettenhar, adding that this is very unprofitable, because the construction of infrastructure is also necessary for residential buildings. For example, roads and railways.

It is noted that the large municipalities have fewer objections to the goal of social housing, since many of them already have at least 30% of social rental housing in their housing stock.

Source: Rossa Primavera