News item | 07-07-2025 | 11:00
The Interdepartmental Policy Research (IBO) to the rental sector has been completed. Minister Mona Keijzer of Housing and Spatial Planning today offered the IBO report ‘Giving home’ to the Lower House. The report contains an analysis of the rental sector and the policy pursued in this sector. It also provides insight into policy options for future rental policy. The researchers advise to work on a long -term stable and predictable rental policy in which roles, agreements, ambitions and budget are realistically coordinated.
The research was conducted by a working group consisting of representatives of four ministries (VRO, Fin, SZW, AZ), the Central Planning Bureau (CPB), the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). To get a good picture of the practice, the working group conducted conversations with policy makers, municipalities, housing associations, (future) tenants and landlords.
Bottlenecks and recommendations
The working group signals six important points of attention, such as the shortage of affordable rental properties, the limited opportunities for starters and home -seeking middle incomes, the pressure on liveability in some neighborhoods, the insufficient efficient use of the existing rental stock and the complexity of the rental policy. The report also discusses the consequences that the tax benefits for the purchase sector have on the rental sector.
The researchers propose solutions for each bottleneck. For example, the working group advises, among other things, to strengthen the investment capacity of housing associations, simplify the rental policy and use the existing housing stock more efficiently. The precondition here is that policy is stable and predictable over a longer period.
Two additional investigations
Together with the IBO report, the minister also sends two other investigations into the House of Representatives conducted on behalf of the IBO working group: ‘Stand of the distribution distribution’ (RIGO) and ‘Research into traffic flow’ (RIGO).
The cabinet comes to the investigation at a later time with a cabinet response