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Rent control in the Netherlands

By Anna Akopyan • Updated: 17 Mar 2024 • 13:29

Hugo de Jonge Credit: Hugo de Jonge, X

Dutch residents are questioning the efficiency of Hugo de Jonge´s new Housing Law.

The Minister for Housing, Hugo de Jonge, is proceeding with implementing the new Housing Law, the objective of which is to increase the number of properties covered by rent controls. 

Hugo de Jonge stated that these changes would encourage residents of “normal income”, including care workers, medical staff and teachers to purchase properties.

The Law aims to reach a maximum rent amount in the rent-controlled sector of up to €1, 123, based on the number of points which the property is worth.

Currently, the country’s housing laws allow landlords with properties worth more than 1443 points in the regulatory system, to determine the worth of their homes. 

Hugo de Jonge´s development aims to make the majority of Dutch homes regulated under rent controls.

Many residents are litigating and expressing their concerns, to which the Minister for Housing, urged people to “act normally,” and adjust to the lack of choice in deciding the properties´ prices.

Landlords and property developers across the Netherlands have been campaigning against the Minister, arguing that the new measures will discourage people from renting out property.

The Officials have estimated that the rent of approximately 300,000 homes will reduce by an average of €190 for the future tenants.

Jonge´s Housing Law is yet to be approved by both houses of the Dutch parliament and it is currently unclear whether the plan will go through.

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Anna Akopyan

Originally from Moscow, with Russian and Armenian origins, Anna has lived in Costa Blanca for over ten years. She is passionate about singing, acting and traveling.

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    • Flabsquab

      11 March 2024 • 17:09

      Every once in a while rent controls seem to be the answer to expensive rents and a shortage of houses for sale. Some landlords sell up, so there will be more houses to buy but the vast majority of renters then find there are fewer house available, they may be unable to buy for many reasons not just financial. The result, every time and in every country that has tried this (most recently Scotland) is that the shortage of rental homes gets more accute, more people end up in temporary accommodation or God forbid, homeless. It’s a Socialist plan, great in theory but has always, always failed.

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