Minister Hugo de Jonge therefore finds no support whatsoever for his plan in a full-page interview with De Telegraaf in which municipalities impose how many status holders they must help with a home. Maikel2008 writes: ”14,000 status holders are waiting for a house. Mister de Jonge: have you ever looked at how many young people are waiting for a house? Remove that plate from your head.” With only De Jonge’s sigh that he understands ‘this feels unjust for someone who has been on a waiting list for a long time’, he does not win the hearts of the readers.
Ussie is very firm: “The provision of houses to these groups must be stopped immediately. Drawn has the provision of everything for free. If you cross a dozen countries, I don’t think you are a refugee, but an economic migrant. This nonsense must end.”
unlivable
That thinks llampie also, because „it is not only the housing shortage. It’s everything. From healthcare, waiting lists, home care, shortage of GPs, traffic jams, childcare, the crowds everywhere, the enormous costs that have to be incurred. We’re going to 20 million inhabitants. I think this country (financially and spatially) is going to become unlivable. We have to give up too much. The discontent and aggression that already exists among the people will only get worse.”
More people fear the latter: a dichotomy threatens to arise. “And then be surprised that more and more Dutch people are leaving the Netherlands. Understandable for me, because as a Dutchman you have to close behind everything these days”, says L_Verduijn† Beljas74 adds: “This policy is catastrophic for support for the reception of asylum seekers here in the Netherlands. In any case, make sure that you stop the influx at the border. So it is mopping with the tap open and you will never get rid of the backlog.”
Inflation
The situation of many status holders may be distressing, but the situation of many working Dutch people apparently is too. Prykmans describes his own circumstances: “As a tax-paying Dutchman, I have been on a waiting list for a social rental home within my municipality for seven years and there is no prospect of it coming any time soon. I work full-time as a taxi driver with a low salary that is fully used for fixed costs. Now – due to howling inflation – I have to knock on the door of the municipality of Alphen a/d Rijn for a food bank package. My application was rejected – by a status holder working there – because I am a working citizen! In other words: I am passed over on the housing market by a priority status holder and if I temporarily ask for help with the groceries, I am rejected by a status holder who works for the municipality!”
And J_msmith states gloomily: “We are slowly paying €800 per month in energy and those status holders get a home with solar panels and a heat pump.”
That status holders should in any case not be given priority is a widely held opinion. Jos 55 writes: “Incomprehensible and unacceptable that status holders are given priority in the allocation of homes. One must first start tackling the problem at the front door and limit the influx. And accelerate the expulsion of people who are not entitled to a residence permit. Unfortunately, no government has to act decisively and everything is left to take its course.”
To vote
It’s a matter of voting well, thinks Harry Zonneveldt: “Every person has the same rights and obligations, also in the Netherlands. Status holders have no more right to a home than the natives, so just join at the back. Our unworldly government does not understand this or does not want to understand this. Next time be more careful with voting; not every political party does what the natives want.” That sees Robert_jt also: „I have read almost all the responses to De Kwestie, but everything revolves around the voting behavior of the Dutchman once every four years. If there is a vote, everyone has apparently already forgotten the misery of De Kwestie.”
And what do we do until the next election? Crumb has a proposal: “Dear Mr. De Jong. What if you and all those who are in favor of giving priority to the beneficiaries and the open borders policy make way for the beneficiaries? Then the problem is solved in one go! You all leave your home out of mercy and temporarily move in with your friends or you temporarily camp in your SUV or in your holiday home. You then set a good example and you yourself also have your feet in the clay. Well, it couldn’t be more beautiful, could it? I just think that the open borders policy will very suddenly be in jeopardy, don’t you think?”