News item | 03-06-2025 | 12:42
Minister Keijzer of Housing and Spatial Planning is deducting the bill on the elaboration of the rental freezing for social rent in 2025 and 2026. This brings peace and progress in public housing. The rental freezing would have had serious consequences for housing without structural compensation.
As a result, rents in the social rental sector may increase from 1 July by the statutory maximum of 5% and in the corporation sector by an average of 4.5%. The minister follows the advice of the Council of State not to submit the bill. In addition, it was announced today that the PVV is leaving the coalition. It has also become clear that the bill cannot count on a majority in the States General.
The spring memorandum agreed that the rents for social rental properties in 2025 and 2026 would be frozen. The bill gave substance to this. The Council of State advice confirmed the dilemmas that the minister sketched previously in the proposal. For example, there was insufficient compensation for housing associations in the Spring Memorandum. As a result, corporations could borrow less, so that fewer homes could be built and made more sustainable and could be.