De Groot, former crown member of the National Social Economic Council, annually maps out the economy of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (MRA). One of its duties here is to hold the region a mirror.
He has seen for years that the population is increasing due to the arrival of foreigners. These are not only expats, but also labor migrants and refugees. Because of that increase, he observes a ‘displacement effect’. The expat arrangement has already been cut back, but still exists. According to him, administrators and politicians must be vigilant for the consequences for the population composition of their region.
Attractive residential city
De Groot has also been observed in recent years that part of the expected effects of the coronation time on the metropolitan region did not come true. The assumption was that people would take the city out of the city because working from home was booming.
“Under the guise of:” I only need to be in the office two days a week, then I can also travel a little further. ” The opposite happened: that says something about how people see the metropolis region as an attractive residential location.
De Groot treasure that Amsterdam is becoming more and more a residential city and he already sees that the activity moves to elsewhere. “People prefer to continue to live in Amsterdam. The command flow that previously came here to work, turns out to be increasingly going out of the region. You can already see that commuting is becoming more balanced.”