Reinout Oerlemans provides anger in the Amsterdam city council. The TV billionaire is rich, but now also wants to cash with a real estate project in the capital. “No social rent!”
Multi -millionaire Reinout Oerlemans has been upset with residents of the Amsterdam Jordaan for years, because he wants to build an apartment complex in the garden of a national monument on the Raamplein. His company Eyeworks used to be located there, but he sold the building, in the parking lot (officially a garden) and the gym.
Pissed on Reinout
With the partial sale of that building, Reinout cashed millions – he bought it in 2012 for 8.6 million euros and sold it five years later for 20.7 million euros – but now he also wants to cash with the remaining part. He wants to realize ten spacious apartments, which should be sold for millions.
Municipal councilor Bastiaan Minderhoud of the PvdA thinks it is outrageous that this is what a multi -millionaire like Reinout wants to add to the city. “What does the city get back for building a parking space, which actually has the destination garden in the middle of the historic city center? At first sight that seems too thin to me.”
40-40-20
Bastiaan is in an open letter in it Het Parool Angry about that Reinout is very handy below the 40-40-20 principle. In the capital, projects with more than ten homes must consist of 40 percent social rent, 40 percent medium duration and 20 percent free sector. Reinout does not feel like it: it sticks to the ceiling of ten homes.
That rule must be adjusted, says Bastiaan. “In the meantime you can make other choices. Given the drawings and the chosen materials, I expect that this will be prices that the average Amsterdammer cannot afford.”
Unjust
It is just unjust that someone who is so rich as Reinout gives back so little to the city where he became a millionaire, Bastiaan thinks. The PvdA member points out the shortage of accessible homes for the elderly in the center. “How nice would it be if you were going to rent half of the homes to the elderly with an average income?”
Reinout wants to sell a penthouse of 224 square meters, but according to Bastiaan it is better to turn it into three homes. “It would be great if you also returned something to the city where you have grown up yourself. Make affordable homes,” it sounds. “That is what the city is really craving.”