Residents of the municipality of Oss will soon be more likely to have a social rental home. On Thursday evening, the city council finally decided that housing associations should first assign social rental properties to residents of the municipality. Oss is the first municipality in the Netherlands with this scheme.
According to a large majority of the Osse city council, the new regulation is needed to ensure that residents can continue to live in their own village more easily. The municipal councilors conclude that people often wait for a rental home in their village, but do not get a home because they go to someone from outside the municipality.
The new rule must ensure extra flow on the housing market. But according to the Osse Council, it also ensures a strong social cohesion because residents remain actively involved in their neighborhood, for example through associations.
Nuclear clusters
Residents of Oss do not just have homes throughout the municipality. The municipality works with so -called core clusters, where residents only take priority over homes in their own cluster. For example, residents of the Megen, Haren and Macharen cluster only get houses within their own cluster. There are a total of seven clusters.
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For home seekers who come from outside Oss, but want to live there, a maximum of half the number of social rental homes remains available.
In the meantime, a lot is playing around the distribution of social rental homes nationwide. Now asylum seekers who have received a residence permit, so -called status holders, still automatically get priority over a social rental home. Woonminister Keijzer wants to put an end to that.