The deletion of the preferred position for status holders on social rental properties was one of the crown jewels of the Schoof cabinet. The bill of outgoing minister Mona Keijzer (BBB) roughly means that municipalities are no longer allowed to give status holders priority in the allocation of social rent, not even through a so -called urgency statement with which certain home seekers are accelerated for a home.
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It already led to fierce criticism from Dutch municipalities. The Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) has been warning for a long time that municipalities are difficult to perform their legal task. The organization is afraid that ‘the daycare up to and including integration through this bill will be completely stuck and that the consequences of this will be shifted to society’.
Interventions have ‘no effect’
The stainless steel agrees with this criticism in its advice. By depriving municipalities of urgency, the possibility of compensating that backlog disappears. “The proposal leads to unequal treatment in violation of the Constitution, now that it is not plausible that the measures announced by the government to bring about the required equal starting position have the necessary effect on time,” the Council writes.
According to the Council, the fact that the outgoing cabinet presented new measures to increase the opportunities of status holders. After all, it is ‘not realistic’ to be expected that these interventions will have the short -term effect. The Council therefore advises on outgoing minister Mona Keijzer (BBB) to submit the bill to the House of Representatives.
Fundamental right to danger
After all, according to the advice, the fundamental right to housing is also endangered. The Council warns that permit holders without urgency run the risk of losing the housing market. According to the advice, such scenarios are ‘socially undesirable’ and incompatible with the responsibility that the government has towards recognized refugees.
The bill was already surprisingly tightened in July. Because a number of left -wing MPs elected the celebration of Keti Koti over votes and a number of right parties supported an amendment of the PVV, there was a narrow majority to completely abolish the priority arrangement for status holders. This completely excludes that status holders can still get priority in special circumstances such as serious medical problems.
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However, this is not legally sustainable, Keijzer already announced later that summer via a letter to parliament. According to her, it is contrary to Article 1 of the Constitution and with international treaties, because it excludes people purely on the basis of their nationality from a right that others do have. She announced that she wanted to ‘repair’ the amendment or to postpone the entry into force if necessary by Royal Decree.