The province will try to pull housing projects that get stuck or not get off the ground. From small to large. In the hope of being able to help more people with a home faster. “Every key issue counts,” says Deputy Yvonne Turenhout of Wonen.
Because there are plenty of problems. From housing associations and municipalities that do not come from the financial cost distribution for a housing project, to staff shortage to be able to build into project developers who want to build but have an unprofitable top at a construction project. And there are many other examples.
Riek Siertsema is going to do that rafting of problem cases, together with housing associations, construction companies, municipalities and real estate developers. And with private individuals who, for example, want to build in collective private commissioning but get stuck.
Siertsema: “Sometimes the solution is to make a project slightly larger or to add a mix of the type of homes so that, for example, affordable homes for starters can still be built.” On the one hand, a project developer or corporation cannot regularly build an affordable home because of that affordability limit, while the other way around Starters cannot pay the amount of that affordability limit at all.
Of the ‘affordability limit’ of 490,000 for a home for sale and 1,100 euros per month for a rental home, Turenhout finds everything, but unfortunately that is determined in The Hague. So according to Turenhout and Siertsema it comes down to finding creative solutions.
In Drenthe, 16,200 homes have to be built before 2030, the empire has been agreed. 6600 homes may be realized by splitting homes, built up built -up areas or to convert existing buildings. 9,600 homes would then really be new construction in new places.
The problems on the housing market in Drenthe are great: there is a shortage of houses, affordable homes for starters can hardly be found, young people cannot find a home in their own village and seniors cannot move to a home suitable for them. And in and near some villages, it is not allowed to be added due to protected landscape.
With regard to the latter, there is also a world to be won according to Turenhout. Because there is quite a lot possible outside the built -up area. Help with complex permit procedures can therefore offer a solution for ‘street street’ or extra floor on top.
Siertsema does not get a bag of money that she can use to solve problems at the residential building. But if money is partly a way to solve a problem, she can turn to Turenhout. The province already has several pots available, for example, to solve problems in cities, to build circularly or helping with building with an unprofitable top.
But problems with housing is a many -headed monster and there are also things for which both Turenhout and Siertsema have no solution. Like nitrogen so everything now on hold State and stuck projects that are now at the Council of State after years of litigation.
Turenhout: “Minister Mona Keijzer is investigating and simplifying objection and appeal procedures and shortening, so that you can only object once and you cannot continue to litigate infinitely.”
Siertsema: “And when bottlenecks affect national laws and regulations and we can’t figure it out, I go to the national gear table housing.” Apart from the fact that problems must be solved at the Drentse Gear table, according to Siertsema and Turenhout, it will hopefully also deliver examples that other construction projects can make smart use of.