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Madness in the housing market now also affects the rural areas
Ermelo – While the housing crisis in the previous municipal elections mainly affected the large cities, homeowners in rural areas have now also been affected by the consequences of the housing shortage. No municipality in the country where housing costs rose so fast in four years as in the Veluwe municipality of Ermelo. The real estate tax (ozb) alone went up there by 120%. “All those young people with families, for them it is downright a drama.”