1/2 Kaya and Pleun have a sub -home!
It should not be called news, but there is a screaming housing shortage. The Eindhoven initiative of Deelwonen must help a little hand. A few conditions: you should not be a couple, you are no longer a student, adult and you are already looking for a while. Do you meet those requirements? Then you might finally leave Hotel Mama.
Take Kaya. She is 26, works in Eindhoven and says he is a real Strijps. “Without this initiative, I should have continued to live with our Mom for a while,” she says. She has been on the waiting list for a house for eight years.
Her brand new roommate, Pleun, was in the same boat. She is 25, also working and was on the list for her own place for seven years. They both searched separately. But when they heard of part living, they decided that SámenWonen is also fine.
“We are building a lot, but there are also neighborhoods with houses that are not inhabited enough.”
The concept of Deelwonen is simple. There are too many people who are still looking for a house in relation to too few houses to give them. “This is one of the solutions,” says Alderman Mieke Verhees, who has the residential portfolio. “On the one hand we are building a lot, on the other hand there are also neighborhoods with houses that are inhabited too little,” the alderman explains.
That’s because they are single -family homes that are too big for someone on his own. While 60 percent of the seekers are single. That ‘sub -home’ must offer the solution for that. Together, as two single people, in one house. You have to share a living room, kitchen and bathroom, but otherwise you have one room all for you anyway. A kind of student house, but for non-students. And you get priority if you already know each other, without being a household together. It is further no strings attached.
“It is 470 euros bare rent, per person. This is a top solution.”
There are now only 25 houses in rotation, but the intention is that it will be many more. First, the hooks and eyes of living together in a sub -home must also be looked at. “For example, whether one bathroom is enough, or if we still have to build one,” says Roy Beijnsberger of the housing association. “But in principle the idea is that we don’t change the houses.”
“470 euros Kale rent is, per person,” say Kaya and Pleun. “So this is a top solution. But there is a lot of time and money in it. We have been talking for a long time, so we are proud. Not everything went smoothly.”
Together Kaya and Pleun can stay in the house for five years. If they continue afterwards, they no longer have to hand in their high spot on the waiting list. It just continues. “There is now a month on it, but we will hold out those five years,” laughs Kaya. “Yes, that will be fine.”