News item | 08-03-2023 | 5:02 PM
Up to and including 2030, 104,000 homes will be added in Gelderland. Today, Minister Hugo de Jonge for Housing and Spatial Planning, deputy Peter Kerris and the municipal administrators in Zutphen signed six housing deals: Region Foodvalley, Achterhoek, Stedendriehoek, Groene Metropoolregio, Noord-Veluwe and Rivierenland.
Minister Hugo de Jonge: “In Gelderland we are signing no less than six regional housing deals, good for the construction of 104,000 homes up to and including 2030. A major ambition that is achievable thanks to the involvement of 55 municipalities, corporations and market parties. With these houses we keep the villages and towns in Gelderland livable.’”
National Housing and Building Agenda
To solve the housing shortage, Minister De Jonge has drawn up the National Housing and Building Agenda. In September 2022, the Minister and the Province of Gelderland made agreements about the construction of these homes up to and including 2030, in which 900,000 new homes must be built in the Netherlands. Together with the municipalities and housing corporations, this has been elaborated in recent months in six regional housing deals with agreements on the numbers of homes, affordability, planning capacity and preconditions.
More than 66,000 affordable homes
Up to and including 2030, 104,000 houses must be built, of which almost 66,500 are affordable owner-occupied and rental homes. That is 4,000 homes more than the housing offer that Gelderland made to the minister in September. Of the 104,000 homes, 31% are social rents (from 2023 this will be up to €808 per month), 10% are mid-market rents (up to €1,000 per month) and 24% are affordable owner-occupied homes (up to €355,000).
Six regional housing deals
The six regional housing deals have been drawn up in consultation with municipalities, housing corporations and market parties. In the case of Region Foodvalley, the province of Utrecht also signs. Most houses are built in Nijmegen (13,000), Arnhem (9,500) and Apeldoorn (9,000). In Nijmegen, there is a lot of construction at the Waalsprong (5,600) and in Arnhem at the Spoor Knoop-Oost (9,800). Many houses are also being built in Ede (7,000), Barneveld (5,500) and Harderwijk (5,500).
Invest more in housing
Government support is required for the construction of 104,000 homes. This concerns, for example, investments in accessibility (roads, public transport, bicycle paths) and the deployment of extra civil servants to speed up construction plans and permits. This has been elaborated per region in the Housing Deals. The national government, the province and the municipalities involved will continue to discuss this with each other.
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